This sounds like an enormous undertaking, and it is; but, with some rail lines already existing (some for many decades), the project could be completed by the 2015 target date. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ long-held dream of unity might first arrive by rail.
听起来这是项伟大工程，事实也是如此；但是，不少铁路线已经存在（其中一些已有几十年历史），因此这项工程的目标完工日在2015年。东盟长期以来的统一梦想可能先在铁路事业上完成。