jalopies

Americans hit golf balls on the moon and drove around in lunar jalopies cars and golf , being two American obsessions .

美国人登上月球后，也就是挥杆打了打高尔夫球，开着破旧的月球车到处转了转，毕竟车和高尔夫是美国人所痴迷的两样东西。

It is a world of jalopies and ponytails , and waitresses on roller skates – and a vision of China 's future .

这是一个充斥着汽车和马尾辫的世界，还有脚穿溜冰鞋的女服务员。这也是中国未来的一瞥。

When I was a teenager in the mid-1970s in the foothills of New York 's Adirondack Mountains , I and all my friends drove tractors and bashed-up jalopies through the hayfields and on the dirt roads long before any of us had a learner 's permit or a driver 's license .

上世纪70年代中期，我还是纽约州阿第伦达克山脉脚下的一名少年。那时，我和所有朋友都还没到拿实习驾照或正式驾照的年龄，而我们却都在秣草地和土路上开着拖拉机和破破烂烂的旧车。