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发表于 2008-11-30 22:02:39
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原帖由 lifanxi 于 2008-11-30 21:35 发表 
为什么版名中把车迷翻译成"Trainspotter"这个词呢？这个词通常只在英国英语中使用，而且在公共领域中还略带一些贬义。为什么不用更为大众所接受的Railfan这个词呢？
不过我没有跟English Native Speaker交流 ...
这个词在法语中也使用，改为Trainspotteur，一般车迷论坛上都这样自称阿。
我记得这个词是中性的，比Railnuts这样的贬义词好多了。。。
不过确实可以讨论一下，实在不好的话，可以改名。
It is a misconception that all railfans are 'trainspotters'. Manyenthusiasts simply enjoy reading about or traveling on trains, orenjoying their rich history - which may extend to art, architecture,the operation of railroads, or simply modelling, drawing orphotographing them.
Those who are "trainspotters" make an effort to 'spot' all of acertain type of rolling stock. This might be a particular class oflocomotive, a particular type of carriage or all the rolling stock of aparticular company. To this end, they collect and exchange detailedinformation about the movements of locomotives and other equipment onthe railway network, and become very knowledgeable about its operations.
The equipment of a trainspotter consists of a data book listing allthe locomotives or other equipment in question, in which locomotivesseen are ticked off, and a notebook and pens, to note sightings fortransfer to the book at leisure. In the UK, this aspect of the hobbywas given a boost by the Ian Allan"ABC" series of booklets from the 1940s onwards. Sometimes,trainspotters also have cameras, but railway photography is mostlylinked to railfans.
Some trainspotters now use a tape recorder instead of a notebook. Inmodern times, cellphones and/or pagers are used to communicate withothers in the hobby, while various internet mailing lists and web sites aid information exchange. Railfans can maintain private computerized databases of spotting records as well. Radio scanners are common equipment for listening to railroad frequencies in the US to follow rail traffic.
Those who spend most of their time on one station only are known as "stoats"[citation needed] or "veg"[citation needed]. "Cranks"[citation needed] are particularly attracted to one type of train and make sure they see all of its workings. "Neds"[citation needed]concentrate on special rail activity and tend to ignore the regularhappenings on the lines, and look for "gen" (information about railwayworkings) prior to spotting.
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