FOR half a century, strip malls were the commercial heart of suburbia.
半个世纪以来，路边商城一直都是郊区居民的商服中心。
Blackstone agreed to buy the 588 strip malls in America that are owned by Australia's Centro Properties.
黑石决定在美国购买588家现由澳大利亚的Centro房产所有的商城。
But sometime after I left, the town became a maze of charmless Indian strip malls and housing developments.
但我离开故乡之后，不知从什么时候开始，这个市却变成了一个迷宫，遍布毫无特色的印度小商场和住房小区。
Highways of strip malls and gas stations and exit signs. Insanely wide streets. It's very New World-smelling.
大商场和加油站和高速公路的出口标志，异常宽阔的街道，都带着新世界的气息。
I was especially interested in Koreatown, with its strip malls packed with Korean businesses, some without English-language signs.
我对韩国城特别感兴趣，单排商业区有很多韩国店，有些都没用英语标注。
In 2004 the Los Angeles-based Milken Institute rated the resulting sea of stucco and strip malls the best-performing city in America.
2004年，总部位于洛杉矶的Milken研究所调查结果显示，Cape Coral是全美卖场业绩最好的城市。
Not so long ago, downtown shops could at least claim to offer an urban alternative to the strip malls and boxy stores dotted about the suburbs.
在市郊，各种带状的和块状的商业中心星罗棋布，不久前，市中心的商店还可以勉强分得一杯羹。
But other parts of the island look more like California, with throngs of pink-shouldered tourists, strip malls, bulky hotels and clusters of time-shares.
但是岛上其他部分看起来更象加利福尼亚，挤满了一群群肩头晒红的游客、购物中心、庞大的酒店以及一簇簇分时度假别墅。
This fast-food giant's American franchises are commonly found in drab strip malls, where they dish out buckets of starchy, guilt-inducing Southern comfort food.
这个快餐巨头在美国的连锁店一般都开在不太繁华的零售商场里，这里的店铺会大量提供南方那种浆糊状，让人容易产生负罪感的桶装休闲食品。
If indoor shopping centres harmed any businesses, Gruen dearly hoped it would be the fast-food stands and tacky strip malls that were sprouting like weeds along main roads.
如果室内购物中心真的损害了任何商家的利益话，格伦倒希望是快餐摊和褴褛的步行街，他们杂草丛生般地沿着主街萌芽蔓延。
But the prospect of heavily fortified strip-malls alarms others.
但是由墙重重包围起的沿公路商业区的前景也给了其他人一个警告。
But the prospect of heavily fortified strip-malls alarms others.
但是由墙重重包围起的沿公路商业区的前景也给了其他人一个警告。
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