No one wants to be left out of the system—Spain has the biggest high-speed rail network in the world after China. Some Spaniards have long been leaving poorer rural areas for better opportunities in richer cities. Galicia was once a byword for isolation and poverty， “the end of the world”， as the name of its westernmost point， Cape Finisterre， indicates.

西班牙擁有僅次于中國(guó)的世界上最大的高速鐵路網(wǎng)，沒(méi)有人想被排除在這個(gè)系統(tǒng)之外。長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)，部分西班牙人想離開較貧窮的農(nóng)村地區(qū)，到較富裕的城市尋找更好的發(fā)展機(jī)會(huì)。加利西亞地區(qū)曾經(jīng)是孤立和貧窮的代名詞，正如其最西端菲尼斯特雷角的名字所表示的含義，它被稱為“世界的盡頭”。

For centuries the main way to Galicia， Spains north-western corner， was on foot. Recent improvements have cut the trip to the closest Galician city， Ourense， to about five hours. Thanks to Galicias first connection with Spains enviable high-speed railway network， now the journey can be made in two hours and 15 minutes.

幾個(gè)世紀(jì)以來(lái)，前往西班牙西北角加利西亞的主要方式是徒步。近來(lái)的改善已經(jīng)將去往距離最近的加利西亞城市烏倫斯的行程減少到5小時(shí)左右?，F(xiàn)在，由于加利西亞首次連接進(jìn)了西班牙令人羨慕的高速鐵路網(wǎng)絡(luò)，這段旅程只需2小時(shí)15分鐘。

Word Bank

enviable adj. 值得羨慕的

isolation n. 孤獨(dú)；孤立

indicate v. 表明；指示