To save on costs last summer, three of us lived and worked out of a small, two-bedroom apartment in New York City's Alphabet City.

去年夏天，为了节省成本，我们团队里的三个人一起住在纽约字母城的一套两室的小公寓里。

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I like it because it's a kind of image of the modern city that makes the modern city look like language, look like letters, look like a kind of scattered alphabet, a kind of babble.

我喜欢它是因为它呈现出了一幅现代城市的图画，使得城市看起来像语言一样，像字母一样，像打乱分散的字母表一样，像模糊不清的牙牙耳语。

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In the central part of the city there are lots of monuments. This one is Saint Mesrop Mashtots' (the inventor of the Armenian alphabet).

市中心有许多纪念碑，这座是为了纪念亚美尼亚字母的发明者圣梅斯罗布(Saint Mesrop Mashtots)。

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The area is also known as Alphabet City, and sometimes considered part of the East Village.

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I like it because it's a kind of image of the modern city that makes the modern city look like language, look like letters, look like a kind of scattered alphabet, a kind of babble.

我喜欢它是因为它呈现出了一幅现代城市的图画,使得城市看起来像语言一样，像字母一样，像打乱分散的字母表一样，像模糊不清的牙牙耳语。

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