My imagination, however, requires that I stay in the same city, on the same street, in the same house, gazing at the same view.

而我的想象力却要求我待在同一座城市，同一条街道，同一幢房子，注视同样的景色。

youdao

I definitely had that imagination of, like, wow, it would be great to look over a city and take down the bad guys.

我当然也有这样的幻想；比如，喔，能够俯瞰一座城市并跟坏蛋作斗争有多么的伟大。

youdao

And much to my delight, I discovered that I was able to see the city's past as well as its present: the London of my imagination superimposed upon the reality, a transparent city in which the old was encased in the new like an ancient layer cake wrapped in glistening sandwich-wrap.

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