英语翻译

英语翻译
A quarter-century later,I was sure that this would have changed.But no:Beijing may have swapped bicycles for cars,and 1950s tenement blocks for state-of-the art skyscrapers,but the return ticket remains a foreign concept.The good news is that agents can be found who will do the queuing for you,thanks to the internet.(I used www.chinatraintickets.net.)
There are still traps for the unwary.I had imagined that by allowing 90 minutes to get from just outside the station to my train I was erring on the side of caution; in fact,it proved to be a close call.First I had to fight my way through a frightening bottleneck—a crowded footbridge with a single broken escalator; then there was a long queue to have my baggage scanned by security.My crucial mistake,however,was presuming that the gate listed on the departures board was the one I was meant to go through.Had a kind stranger not redirected me to a door marked "Immigration",I might have spent the next few days on a slow train across the * Plateau.