A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
城市
City
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.
现在，城市可能会推平私人住宅、农场和小型企业，为购物中心或其他开发项目让路。
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
我袭击了一座城市——一座真正的城市——他们管它叫芝加哥……我迫切希望再也不要见到它。那里住着野蛮人。
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.
这是一个奇怪的城市，因为天气越丑，城市就越美丽。建筑越难看，城市就越连贯。
What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
到底是什么样的人决定打扮成蝙蝠在城市里到处跑?里面一定有什么东西松了。
I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another river views.
我有时会回去穿过萨顿地区的幽灵遗迹，在那里，粗犷的新建筑笔直地矗立在河景之中。
My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.
我对这项运动的热情来自马赛这个城市本身。不幸的是，我不能像我想的那样回到那里，因为我在这里和国外打了很多比赛。
I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
我没说我不会去贫民区。我去过很多地方，在某种程度上，我会这么说;如果你见过一个城市贫民窟，你就见过所有的贫民窟。
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
我们城市的生活充满了诗意和奇妙的主题。我们被包围和浸透，仿佛置身于一种奇妙的气氛之中;但我们没有注意到。
When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.
当我刚开始的时候，在城市里没有那么多的孩子这样做，但是在我之后的浪潮中，有很多这样的孩子，他们实际上从来没有互相说过话。
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
事实上，牛津只是一个非常美丽的城市，在这里，人们可以很方便地隔离这个国家的一部分正在成长的年轻人。
The truth is that the city is a device for reducing stress - by giving humans a free choice of escapes from the pressure (along with the weather) of their environment.
事实是，城市是一种减轻压力的装置——通过让人们自由选择逃离环境压力(以及天气)。
I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.
我不喜欢去城市。我不介意有时在城市待上几个小时，但我非常不喜欢城市。我甚至不喜欢穿过它们。
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Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city.
如果你想住在城市里，犯罪是你必须支付的额外费用。
So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.
所以，就像我说的，我会更经常去杰弗森维尔，因为我现在在那里有一个小度假屋。
Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
在城市之外有个地方是我重新思考的捷径。
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
在像雅典这样的城市，尽管有豪华的公共建筑，贫穷的房屋仍然排列在狭窄曲折的街道两旁。
Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.
今晚这个城市到处都是停尸房，所有的厕所都满了。当我们从粪堆中走出来的时候，有购物中心从墙里冒出来。这就是我不介意的原因。
It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.
如果能把一条城市街道变成步行街，看看它对该地区的商业产生了什么样的影响，那就太好了——我认为这就是未来。