现在,又有新建的地铁线拓展到浦江,这个小镇或许人会开始渐渐多起来,尽管位于城郊的乡村美墅对大多数上海人来说,还是太贵了。
Now that a recently constructed subway line extends to Pujiang, the city may begin to fill with people, though the luxury villas downtown may still be too expensive for most Shanghainese.
世俗世界像是一个盘子,跨过群山,穿过海洋,或许在中国,或许在亚美尼亚,或许在埃塞俄比亚,或许在美索布达米亚,就是被天使所守卫的天堂。
The world was like a plate; paradise was up a mountain, across a sea, perhaps guarded by angels, maybe in China, or Armenia, or Abyssinia, or Mesopotamia.
这个楼梯井或许曾经有着极尽朴素之美,但却和它气势雄伟的外观真是没法比,更何况朴素之美也是久远以前。
Whatever unpretentious beauty the stairwell might once have had, it could never have been comparable to the grandeur of the facade, and it was long gone in any case.
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