Sydney is the 34th most expensive city in the world, according to the latest research — a global index of luxury home prices compiled by London-based Knight Frank.

根据最新的调查，悉尼是第34个世界最昂贵城市——一个全球性的豪华住宅价格指数由位于伦敦的莱坊国际所编辑。

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A judge described Prince Charles’s intervention last year to halt a building project of luxury apartments in central London as “unexpected and unwelcome”.

一位法官评价查尔斯王子干涉停止在伦敦市中心修建奢华公寓的项目是"未曾预料到的和不受欢迎的".

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This London hotel in ritzy Mayfair combines a gent’s club feel with oodles of luxury, starting from the red entrance carpet and rose and white Victorian facade.

这个伦敦上流住宅区的豪华酒店包括了一个贵族奢侈的绅士俱乐部，从床边的地毯和玫瑰和白色维多利亚式的外观。

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Other central London luxury retailers were kept busy, with a long queue at lunchtime outside the Vivienne Westwood boutique.

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But the Chinese taste for London luxury does not end there.

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"There is a real crisis of confidence, " John Guy, a London-based luxury goods analyst at brokerage MF Global Securities, said.

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