It sounds a little hollow, especially looking at this city in the desert that creates nothing, the world's greatest ghost town in waiting.

看着这座沙漠城市什么都没有创造出来，现在徒留下一座空荡荡的鬼城的时候，就觉得这种说法不切实际。

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If the updating of his connection to the city, through recent footage of his own making, rings somewhat hollow, the pathos of his latter-day distance from it nonetheless comes through poignantly.

NEWYORKER: Of Time and the City