"It used to be just a sleepy fishing village when I was a child, " recalls a middle-aged resident.
一位中年居民回忆说：“在我还是一个孩子的时候，这里只是一个静寂的渔村。”Called simply Dalian Development District , localssay the area was a fishing village just a few years ago.
此处被简单地称作大连开发区。当地人说，几年前这个地方还只是一个渔村。Dr. Chen is an orphan, was a pair of good fishing couple adoption.
五福是个孤儿，被一对善良的渔村夫妻收养。Since then it has transformed itself from a small fishing village into a major manufacturing and financial centre for China.
自从那时起他从一个渔村转变为了中国的制造和金融中心。W2: It used to be a fishing town, you know? 2, 000 years ago hunters and fishermen lived on the mudflats.
你知道吗？那里过去是个渔村。2000多年前，猎人和渔夫们住在泥滩上。Over the next three decades, the sea shrank to two-fifths its original size, turning fishing villages into barren desert outposts.
在过去的三十年时间里，咸海已经严重收缩到只剩下原来大小的五分之二，把原来的渔村变成现在的荒芜的边境村落。LEE KUAN YEW, Senior Minister of Singapore: When the British came here in 1819, they found a fishing village of about 120 people.
李光耀，新加坡高级部长：1819年英国人到达这里的时候，他们看到的是一个只有120人的小渔村。Sheila lives in Ireland, a quiet village, is a simple, pure fishermen, by fisher and a day-to-day life on the sea.
希拉库兹居住在爱尔兰的一个宁静的小渔村，是一个朴素、单纯的渔夫，靠打渔维生，过着日复一日的海上生活。In a generation, the city's rulers have transformed this once sleepy fishing port into a hub of the Middle East.
仅仅一代人的努力，城市的领导者就把无人知晓的渔村发展成为了中东的重要港口。