Berlin, says Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig, a Green member of its Senate, is really three cities: the old east, the old west and the new middle.

德国参议员Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig说柏林事实上是三个城市：老的东部，老的西部和新的中间区域。

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Some Germans now say the old East Germany is the equivalent of a Potemkin village: the buildings have been given a makeover but the mass exodus of the young means there is no one living in them.

有的德国人现在说，老东德就是个伪居民区：建筑物已经换上新颜，但是大量年轻人的迁出意味着东德的房屋中无人居住。

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And part of the pleasure for him is to do that transaction, to enliven the old East with the young West. These are all stereotypes of America, but Sal really believes them and really inhabits them.

他将这群人带到纽约，其中的乐趣在于一种“交换“，他想让新西部带动老西部，使其活跃，不过这些都是，对美国的刻板印象，但萨尔真的相信，这种印象占据他大脑。

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Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

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And part of the pleasure for him is to do that transaction, to enliven the old East with the young West. These are all stereotypes of America, but Sal really believes them and really inhabits them.

他将这群人带到纽约，其中的乐趣在于一种“交换“,他想让新西部带动老西部，使其活跃，不过这些都是,对美国的刻板印象，但萨尔真的相信，这种印象占据他大脑。

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you know, kind of the hip group. But when you think of Upper East Side, it's more of like the old money where it's,

有点像时尚人士。想到上东区，你更容易想到老而有钱的人。

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It would be a shame to leave Berlin without investigating the phenomenon of Ostalgie -- nostalgia for life in the old East Germany.

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The deal brings to an end a ten-year dispute over the debts, most of which were originally owed to the old East Germany.

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See North Korea and Cuba, or for that matter compare North Korea with South Korea, or the old East Germany with the old West Germany.

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