There are no jobs around. Everything is just rotten really.
附近没有工作岗位，一切都糟糕透了。
Slowly but surely, the western elite's self-loathing of recent years is transforming into a loathing of China, which is seen to represent everything that is rotten about "western-style" modernity.
西方精英近年来的自我厌恶正慢慢地、坚定地转变为对中国的厌恶。在他们看来，中国是所有“西式”现代性的腐朽之物的缩影。
The streets, the walls and the oil drum "cookers" were caked in layers of filth and grime, and from time to time, great wafts of odour, like rotten eggs, would roll over everything.
大街上、墙壁上、油桶“炊具”上涂上了层层污垢，而且有时有一股像臭鸡蛋的味道席卷一切。
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