Almaty

His proposed route was from China's Urumqi and Yining to Almaty in Kazakhstan, then to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, Tashkent and Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Ashgabat in Turkmenistan and finally blending into West Asia's network through Teheran, Iran.

该路线从中国乌鲁木齐、伊宁出发，途经哈萨克斯坦的阿拉木图、吉尔吉斯斯坦的比什凯克、塔什干、乌兹别克斯坦的撒马尔罕、土库曼斯坦的阿什哈巴德，最后通过伊朗的德黑兰到达西亚铁路网。

Last week, when Almaty and Beijing gave presentations to about 85 of the I.O.C. members, Almaty's, which featured numerous photographs of deep snow-another apparent dig at Beijing's bid-seemed well received.

上周，阿拉木图和北京向约占总人数85%的国际奥委会成员做了申奥陈述。阿拉木图的报告用到很多大雪覆盖的图片——明显对北京又是一击——似乎得到了不错的反应。

Eight months later, the International Olympic Committee has named Beijing, which has proposed hosting the games in conjunction with the nearby city of Zhangjiakou, as one of the three finalists for the bid, along with Oslo in Norway and Kazakhstan's Almaty.

八个月之后，国际奥林匹克委员会（International Olympic Committee，简称：国际奥委会）宣布，北京与挪威的奥斯陆及哈萨克斯坦的阿拉木图共同入围最后一轮候选名单。北京提出的方案是与附近城市张家口一起举办冬奥会。