梅森律师事务所是国际建筑和工程法律方面的著名律师行。下面是一份关于梅森律师事务所的英译汉口译练习，希望能帮助大家提高口译能力。
Welcome to Aylesbury Street. We are delighted to have the opportunity to talk to you this morning regarding some of the practical legal issues that we have come across on rail projects. We hope that this session can stimulate some useful discussions which we can continue over lunch, to which we have invited a number of our railway industry associates from differing businesses and organizations.
欢迎到访我们事务所。我们很高兴今天上午有机会跟你们谈谈一些实际的法律问题，也就是我们在铁路项目上遇到的法律问题。我们希望这个介绍可以带动讨论，讨论会在午饭期间继续进行。届时我们邀请了铁路行业不同公司和组织的几位同行共进午餐。
Masons and Rail. As a leading international construction and engineering law firm, Masons has a long and active involvement in providing advice to and working with members of the railway industry. Projects with which we have been associated include Hong Kong. We have provided advice to KCRC over many years, including advice on the development of the light rail scheme in the new Territories.
梅森和铁路。作为国际建筑和工程法律方面的著名律师行，梅森长期以来，积极向铁路行业的成员提供咨询并与他们合作。我们参与过包括香港在内的合作项目。我们多年来为KCRC提供咨询，包括新界轻轨项目的发展。
Channel Tunnel. We acted as advisor to the TML consortium regarding a wide range of issues arising from the construction of what is probably the greatest European civil engineering project of the last century. Malaysia. We have acted for the sponsors of the Kuala Lumpur light rails stem and associated infrastructure. Singapore. We worked with the contractor for the MRT system. Sough Africa. We are currently working with the government of the Gauteng/Johannesburg province in relation to the procurement of a new rail network using private-public partnership methods.
英法海底隧道：我们担任了TML财团的咨询顾问，就广泛的`建设问题提供咨询，为这个很可能是上个世纪欧洲规模最大的建设工程项目作出了贡献。马来西亚：我们的客户是吉隆坡轻轨系统和相关基础设施的赞助者。新加坡：我们与MRT系统的合同商合作。南非：我们正在帮助助Gauteng、约翰内斯堡的省政府，策划购买一个新的铁路网络。通过采用公私伙伴关系的方式。
UK. We are perhaps the pre-eminent law firm in the light rail sector, having acted for the concession company on the Arrow Light Rail project in ngham in the Midlands, which is the first such scheme to reach financial close under the UK government's "private finance initiative", and we are currently active on the four other light rail schemes that have gone out to bidders.
英国：我们在轻轨铁路行业也许是最著名的律师事务所，在英格兰中部诺丁汉市的神箭轻轨铁路项目中为特许承建公司负责法律事务。这是同类中第一个在英国政府的私营资金行动计划中财政完结的项目。我们还在积极参与另外四个正在招标的轻轨项目。
Masons lawyers were involved in advising contractors on the major Jubilee Line Extension of London Underground, and we are currently advising on aspects of the LUL PPP scheme. Europe. Europe. Masons has worked on projects throughout Europe. We have acted for bankers in relation to the Barcelona metro, provided advice on private rail franchises in Scandinavia and are currently acting for the Irish governments' Railway Procurement Agency in the procurement of a metro system for Dublin.
梅森的律师们参与了伦敦地轶轶Jubilee延伸线合同商的咨询工作。我们还在伦敦地铁的公私伙伴项目中提供咨询。欧洲：梅森参与过的项目遍布欧洲。我们在巴塞罗那地铁项目中为银行服务，就斯堪的纳维亚的私营铁路承包提供咨询，我们还正在为爱尔兰政府的铁路购买署就都柏林的地铁系统的购买提供法律服务。
Rail opportunities: As I am sure you are aware, these are very exciting times for those of us who work on rail projects. For example, in United Kingdom, the government has announced that it proposes to invest ￡6 billion in the rail sector over the next 10 years. In many countries, much of the infrastructure that is being used dates back to the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century and needs replacing.
铁路方面的机会：我敢肯定，各位都清楚，对于我们这些以铁路项目为本行的人来说，眼下是个令人兴奋的时期。比如，在英国，政府已经宣布提议在今后10年中在铁路行业投资60亿英镑。在很多国家，目前的基础设施中不少都是19世纪末、20世纪初建成的，需要更换。
There are many projects under way at present in the United Kingdom and further field to up-date out-dated technology in the field of signaling and control systems, track geometry, rolling stock and so on. In the wider context, the demand to reduce the harmful environmental effects of private vehicle use is leading to demands for a "modal shift" to public transportation, and we are seeing increasing numbers of schemes being drawn up for light rail systems, tramways, guided buses and metros.
现在在英国和其他国家就有很多项目正在实施，在信号和控制系统、铁轨几何、铁路车辆等方面更新换代。从更广泛的意义上说，在减少对环境有害的私家汽车的使用的呼声下，人们要求改乘公车。我们看到越来越多的轻轨、有轨电车、导向公车和地铁项目正在筹划之中。
Rail challenges: From both a technological and legal perspective, rail projects can produce bigger challenges than almost any other type of infrastructure projects. The next hour or so, my partner Jon Hart will be speaking about particular issues that they see as fundamental, including funding and financing aspects of rail projects as well as design, construction and some operational issues. There will also be time for questions.
铁路的挑战：从技术和法律角度看，铁路项目带来的挑战会超过任何其他形式的基础设施项目。在接下来一小时左右的时间里，我的合伙人JonHart将谈谈他们认为具有根本性质的几个特别问题，其中包括铁路项目的资金来源和融资，还有设计、建设和一些操作上的问题。然后还有时间提问题。
