The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status.

该城市不切实际地声称为世界一流城市。

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Some seem to think that being picked to put on the 2024 Summer Games is entwined with mythic world-class status.

有些人似乎认为被选为2024夏季奥运会的举办城市，是与所谓的世界级城市地位息息相关的一件事。

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Whether winning an Olympics confers world-class status, Boston's bid contains an inherent paradox: Its dream to make it big is not that big.

不管赢得奥运会的举办权是否会带来世界级城市的地位，波士顿的努力包含一个自相矛盾之处：它的大城梦想其实并没有那么大。

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For example, Alvin Ailey, the founder of the prestigious Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Judith Jamison, the dancing legend who elevated the company to world-class status, would not have been strong and athletic enough to secure spots in the same company if transported a few decades into the future while still in their primes.

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Using a social network, one of the single most powerful tools since the Internet arrived on the scene, as a platform to narrow an audience to salacious gossip, defeats the purpose of opening up our world to everyone, regardless of socio-economic status or class.

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