A：Hey, do you know the bus company network system crashed?
嗨，你知道公交公司網絡癱瘓這件事嗎?
V：I heard about it several days ago!
我?guī)滋烨熬吐犝f了。
A：That is unbelievable!
那太讓人難以置信了!
C：Daddy, can you tell me what they are talking about?
爸爸，你能告訴我他們在談論的是什么嗎?
D：They are talking about the network of the bus company.
他們在說公交公司網絡的問題。
C：Why is their network not working?
那為什么他們的網絡不能夠正常運行呢?
D：Because of the IC cards.
因為IC卡的問題。
C：The IC card?
IC卡嗎?
D：Yes, Beijing is a big city and there are about 7,000,000 people using IC cards on buses.
對啊，北京是個大城市，總共有7,000,000人用公交IC卡。
C：And?
然后呢?
D：All the people were checking the balance of their cards on the Internet at the same time, that's why the system crashed.
所有的人都去網上查看他們卡里的余額，所以就產生了網絡問題。
C：Oh, that is horrible!
噢，那太可怕了!
注釋：
crash n. 崩潰
network n. 網絡
system n. 系統(tǒng)，體系
unbelievable adj. 令人難以置信的
check vt. 查詢
balance n. 余額
horrible adj. 可怕的