VOA常速英语:Volvo Breaks Its Record for Fastest Truck on Earth(翻译)

Reaching the top speed of 276 kilometers per hour, Volvo’s Iron Knight set the new unofficial world record for trucks,covering the distance of 1 kilometer in 21.290 seconds.
沃尔沃最新打造了一部名为钢铁骑士的超级卡车，时速最高可达276公里，跑完一公里仅需21.29秒。

The international motor sport association FIA is expected to make it official.
国际汽车联合会（FIA）欲将该记录正式化。

The previous record of 21.596 seconds was set in 2012 by Volvo’s Mean Green truck.
沃尔沃一款名为Mean Green的混合机车曾在2012年创下21.596秒的世界纪录。

Similar to production-based automobiles used in stock car races,the super-truck’s powertrain and transmission are based on the standard engine,gearbox and clutch used in Volvo’s FH line of long-haul trailer trucks.
与赛车比赛中基于生产的车类似，这辆超级卡车的动力和传动系统都利用了标准引擎，变速器和离合器，沃尔沃FH系列长途拖车也同样采取这些装置。

They just had to be modified to handle the enormous forces.
只需改装一下，便可操纵这巨大的动力。

"The Iron Knight is basically a truck where we said to our designers, think out of the box.’ And that’s exactly what they did."
“设计钢铁骑士时，我们曾告诉设计师要打破常规，现在他们做到了。”

Iron Knight’s chassis is handmade,but its 13-liter 2400-horsepower diesel engine and the new I-Shift Dual Clutch transmission develop 6,000 Newton-meters of torque,about 17 times more than the 350-horsepower Ford Focus engine.The clutch plates had to be made of special material.
钢铁骑士的底盘是纯手工制作的，不过其13升2400马力的发动机以及新型I-Shift双离合自动变速器扭矩可达每米6000牛顿，比350马力福特发动机强17倍。离合器片也是由一种特殊的材料制成。

Volvo says the main purpose of this exercise in truck building technology was to show that its new dual clutch transmission greatly reduces the wear of both clutch in gearbox,enabling smooth gear shifting under the most extreme conditions such as when hauling great loads up the steep hill.
沃尔沃称其使用这些新型设备的主要目的是展示新型双离合自动变速器能够极大的减少变速箱中离合器的磨损，从而即便在极端条件下也能实现平滑换挡，比如在陡峭的山坡上重载运输。