不过，在表面光鲜的背后却隐藏着尴尬的现实：大厦虽然灯火通明，但却已人去楼空。

But behind the glitter is an awkward truth: The lights are on, but almost nobody is home.

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塞纳河上华灯初上，灯火通明的轮船穿梭于卡鲁索桥的桥洞。 透过一楼的窗户，美景尽收眼底。

One by one the little white lights along the Seine were coming on, and from the first-floor windows you could see the brightly lit bateaux-mouches passing through the arches of the Pont du Carrousel.

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我跟随着隐约听到的音乐走进了漆黑的巷子，突然在居民楼之下出现了灯火通明的婚宴。

I padded down unlit alleys towards a thread of music, and emerged beneath flat-blocks to see a floodlit wedding feast.

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