Key to being able to get us from Nanjing to Beijing in just 3 hours and 13 minutes is the Nanjing Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge, so much so, in fact, they put it on a coin.
南京大圣关长江大桥是让我们在短短3小时13分钟内从南京到北京的关键，事实上，他们把它写在硬币上。
After they depart from Nanjing South Railway Station, the fastest trains headed north will have accelerated to 300km/h by the time they make the Bridge. But that’s no impediment to them, since this bridge has the highest loading capacity in all of China, at some 920 kilonewtons per metre of dead load.
从南京南站出发后，最快的北行列车在到达大桥时将加速到300公里/小时。 但这对他们来说并不妨碍，因为这座桥的承载能力是全中国最高的，每米死载约920千牛顿。
Today, the Nanjing Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge is recognised as being the longest in the world with a continuous arch. It is also the first bridge in China to carry six railway lines.
今天，南京大圣关长江大桥被公认为世界上最长的连拱。 这也是中国第一座承载六条铁路线的桥梁。
From the outside on each side, these lines are utilised for Nanjing Metro Line S3, the Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu Railway and the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway, respectively, and other routes that intersect along their ways.
从两边的外部来看，这些线路分别用于南京地铁S3线、沪乌成都铁路和京沪高速铁路，以及沿途交叉的其他路线。
With construction officially commencing on 14 September, 2006, full-steel-girder erection began on 27 February, 2008, for the bridge to be successfully completed on 28 September, 2009.
2006年9月14日正式开始施工，2008年2月27日开始安装全钢梁，该桥将于2009年9月28日成功完工。
The bridge has an overall length of 9,273 metres, with its main length being 1,615 metres. While trains can traverse the Bridge at speeds of up to 350km/h, they do so with a navigation clearance of 32 metres for ships passing beneath.
这座桥的总长度为9,273米，其主长度为1615米。 虽然火车可以以高达350公里/小时的速度穿过大桥，但它们对从下面通过的船只的航行许可为32米。
The Nanjing Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge can also withstand magnitude-8 earthquakes.
南京大圣关长江大桥也能承受8级地震。
On 6 December, 2017, Nanjing Metro Line S3 began fare-paying passenger operations, meaning that all six lines of the Bridge had been put in to use.
2017年12月6日，南京地铁S3线开始付费客运运营，这意味着大桥的所有六条线路都已投入使用。
And so it was that China’s high-speed rail commemorative coins were issued the following year. With a “Fuxing” train occupying the foreground, both Beijing South Railway Station the Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge fill out the coins’ background.
因此，第二年发行了中国的高铁纪念币。 前景是“复兴”列车，北京南站和大圣关长江大桥都填满了硬币的背景。
The Bridge, which cost in excess of ¥3 billion to construct, also won the 2012 George S. Richardson Medal for an outstanding achievement in bridge engineering.
这座桥梁的建造成本超过30亿日元，还获得了2012年乔治·S·理查德森奖章，以表彰其在桥梁工程方面的杰出成就。
Perhaps too much so. As trains pass over the Bridge at 300km/h, the smooth and near-silent ride across is such that most passengers do not even look up from their phones, missing out on their country’s other great achievement at traversing the Yangtze River.
也许太多了。 当火车以每小时300公里的速度通过大桥时，平稳而近乎无声的穿越，以至于大多数乘客甚至没有从手机上抬起来，错过了他们国家在穿越长江方面的其他伟大成就。
