The Chinese ideology of living is not in a city, but to live in the embracement of delicate natural landscape, with deepest mountain views and water flows (Shan Shui).

在中国的传统思想中，人们理想的居住地点并非在城市里，而是在精致的自然景观中，有着深山和流水的环抱。

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Flocks are not fussy, so they are as likely to alight in a bush in a city park as on a rural hawthorn hedge.

鸟儿们并不挑剔，所以它们可能降落在城市公园中的灌木上，或是乡村的山楂树篱上。

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In these days the pre-industrial city in America functioned as a complex and varied organizing element in American life, not as a simple, homogeneous, and static unit.

在这些日子里，美国未工业化的城市在美国人的生活中是一个复杂而多样的组织元素，而不是一个简单的、同质的、静态的单位。

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It was not a dream. He really was on his way to New York City with five thousand dollars in his pocket.

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Of course, it's being used in the movie just to support a criminal enterprise, not the founding of a city.

当然那仅是用在电影中,以支撑一桩犯罪活动，而非指创建一座城。

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And then kind of nightlife, there's not a lot in the city of Palo Alto,

在帕洛阿尔托没有太多的夜生活，

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Thank goodness she is not in a city, or she could easily have had to file and pay three separate sales taxes and three separate lodging taxes (city, county, state).

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"The residential areas have become car parks for commuters and that's not acceptable in a city, " he said.

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You notice the seasons, which are not obvious in a city.

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