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Did you know that roller coasters have been around for a long time?
你知道过山车已经存在很长时间了吗？
The idea for roller coasters first came along in the 1400s, when people in Russia would sleds down ice slides over 70 ft tall and hundreds of feet long.
关于过山车的概念，最早可追溯至15世纪，当时俄罗斯人会乘坐雪橇从70英尺高、数百英尺长的冰梯上滑下来。
So when you think of it, sled riding is kind of like riding on a roller coaster, isn't it?
所以当你想到雪橇滑行的时候，是不是有点像坐过山车？
The first American roller coaster was actually a train, originally designed to carry coal out a mountain in the 1850.
美国第一个过山车实际上是一列火车，最初是1850年设计用来把煤从山上运出去的。
People started riding it, it was so fun.
人们开始乘坐它，这在当时是非常有趣的。
The first official roller coaster like the ones we ride today was a Switchback Railway in Coney Island in New York, way back in 1884.
而第一个正式的、就像我们今天乘坐的这样的过山车，是在1884年纽约康尼岛的Switchback Railway。
You can't ride the Switchback Railways anymore, but you can ride Leap the Dips at Lakemont Park in Pennsylvania.
你现在不能再坐Switchback Railway了，但你可以在宾夕法尼亚州的莱克蒙特公园坐Leap the Dips过山车。
That was built in 1902 and is still running today.
它建于1902年，至今仍在运行。
