They had a big water tank for the old steam locomotive.

他们机车准备了一个大水箱。

He loved the steam locomotive, and whenever he got a chance, rode in the cab with the engineer of the train.

他喜欢机车，只要有机会，他就和火车的工程师一起乘坐机车。

And I think I would go for a steam locomotive.

我想我会选择机车。

So instead, they built their own steam locomotive from scratch.

因此，他们从头开始建造自己的机车。

It's like having a powerful steam locomotive, but no way to shovel in coal fast enough.

这就像拥有强大的机车，却无法以足够快的速度铲煤。

I mean, if you've been up close to a steam locomotive, they are truly awesome objects.

我的意思是，如果你靠近机车，它们确实很棒。

The engine was one of the old locomotives of the 'Highland Light' class of around 1870 which Bond had heard called the handsomest steam locomotives ever built.

这台发动机是 1870 年左右的“Highland Light” 型机车之一， 邦德听说它被称有以来最漂亮的机车。

Energy to drive a steam locomotive can be stored in other materials besides water for example, a team at Tohoku University in Japan has studied materials that can store large amounts of heat when heated.

驱动机车的能量可以存储在除水之外的其他材料中，例如，日本东北大学的一个团队已经研究了可以在加热时储存大量热量的材料。

To my ears the torch hissed louder than a steam locomotive, and when he used it to cut through steel, it blew off thousands of tiny pieces of molten metal that swarmed around him like angry fireflies.

在我听来，那乙炔炬发出的切割声比机火车头发出的声音还要大，当他用它切割钢材时，无数熔化了的金属的粉末状液滴喷射出来，在他周围飞溅，就像一群愤怒的萤火虫。