TOKYO: A Japanese railway operator has issued a deep apology for the "tremendous nuisance" caused by a train departing 20 seconds early, surprising even a nation renowned for both punctuality and politeness.

日本一铁路公司为列车提前发车20秒向乘客致歉。令一个以准时著称的国家也震惊了。

The Tsukuba Express train linking Tokyo and the capital's northern suburbs pulled out of Minami Nagareyama Station at 9:44:20 instead of 9:44:40.

日本筑波快线(Tsukuba Express)，连接东京和首都的北部郊区，该趟列车于9时44分20秒由东京出发向北行驶，而根据时刻表，列车本应于9时44分40秒发车。

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"We deeply apologise for causing tremendous nuisance to customers," said the Tsukuba Express company.

经营筑波快线的公司表示，“我们为给旅客造成的巨大不变表示深深的歉意。”

"There was no complaint from customers over this incident," said the firm, which added that no one missed the train due to the premature departure.

迄今并没有乘客对列车提前发车20秒投诉，没有人因为提早发车而错过这列火车。

Japanese railway services, including shinkansen bullet trains, are famous for their world-beating punctuality.

日本铁路服务，包括新干线，以准时著称。

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译文来源：三泰虎 http://www.santaihu.com/43860.html

sri
sri - tvpuram - 7 days ago

see here ... yesterday''s train would be leaving today - still railways takes pride and travellers wait wait and wait :(

在印度，昨天的火车，今天才开出去

印度铁道部还以此为荣呢，旅客就等啊等

bejoy k
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bejoy k - 7 days ago

Japanese are very punctual and hardworking... We indians always blame govt for all our troubles instead of correcting ourselves......

日本人非常准时啊，非常勤劳

我们印度人把一切问题归咎于政府，不会从自身找问题的

Anti Bhakt
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Anti - Chaddisthan -

Wait till the shinnkasen bullet train comes to India, we will teach Japanese what Indian punctuality is....

等新干线开到印度来，我们会教日本人什么叫做“印度人的准时”

Javid Amin
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Javid Amin - Kashmir -

Here 22 hours delay wont matter...........

在印度，延迟22小时都不打紧

satkaindian indian
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satkaindian indian -
They know value of time.

他们懂得时间的价值

Prime
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Prime -

Before comparing Japanese railway with Indian railway we should compare ourselves as well. The system and government is always reflection of its citizens

先别急着比较日本铁路和印度铁路，还是先把自己拿来比

体系和政府是怎样的，该国公民就是怎样的，一面镜子

Sugath Palan
Sugath Palan - Bangalore - 7 days ago

Our trains are never that bad. They never leave before time, they never leave on time. When one train arrived 1 hour before time, the station master clarified the train was due to arrive the previous day, but arrived finally.

印度火车可不会这么糟糕

印度火车从来不提早发车的，也从来不按时发车。

要是有一列火车“提前”一个小时到站，车站站长就会出来澄清，说火车本来是要前一天抵达的哦，今天终于到了。

Veejay vee
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Veejay vee -

Please privatize railways..

让印度铁路私有化吧

Lalit Sadhwani
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Lalit -

Sorry for 20 sec but here no sorry for 20 hrs.

为提早发车20秒而道歉

在印度，误点20小时都木有问题

Kanchan Lodh Roy
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Kanchan -

Indian Railways need not worry about this..They Don't have 'on time' and 'early arrival' words in their dictionary

印度铁路没有这方面的担忧啦

印度铁路的字典里没有“准时”和“提前到站”这些词哦