BBC纪录片《中国新年》听写004

As the day goes on, this place will start to fill up.

fill up

to become full.
The creek filled up after the heavy rain yesterday

Ques for … can last up to 3 hours. 实在听不出来……

But that’s nothing compared to the pressure on the Chinese transport system when around a billion people on want to travel home for New Year and on all the same time. 这种听不出来到底是语法不好还是耳朵不够敏感？

The Chinese have a phrase for it – Chun Yun, which translates as Spring Migration.

We went to Beijing to find out how they cope with the biggest movement of people on Earth.

Beijing is one of the most densely populated cities on the planet.

Around 21 million people live and work here.

But at Chinese New Year millions fly out flood out to the city and head to their hometowns across China. 这是个比喻的说法

The total number of trips made by road in China in and around New Year is an eye-watering 3.2 billion.

eye-watering

an eye-watering amount is extremely high or large, and much higher or larger than you would expect
· The costs are eye-watering.

And a lot of them made in this very city at in Beijing.

And like cabbies all over the world, my taxi driver Ma Yunqi enjoys a good old moan about the city’s traffic.

cabby

• (informal) a person who drives a taxi
• 出租汽车司机；计程车司机

Managing this flow of vehicles takes a huge amount of technology.

This state-the-art monitoring hub is the responsibility is of Geng Songlin.

The traffic is very very busy. It’s busier than Guangzhou and Shenzhen, because we have a really big road network.

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