There was a time when the wireless. Turns out to the site. In a bucket of gold. But today. Still falling so far.
曾几何时。意气风华。想在站点这块掏一桶金。可是时至今日。依然破败至此。The hut, one-story tall and made of adobe, had small windows and was as worn as a sand castle.
小屋只有一层,以土坯制成,墙上开有几孔小窗口,像个破败的沙土城堡。I mean, there may be 100 explanations for why Haiti is the impoverished nation it is, but there is no excuse to see that sort of squalor.
我是说,即使有100条理由解释为什么海地是那样贫穷,它也没有理由那样的破败不堪。When the Spanish took Naples in 1503, they found it "a very rundown city whose whole infrastructure badly needed making over" .
1503年西班牙占领此地时,他们发现它是“一座整体的基础设施亟需改造的破败之城”。A woman sells skintight spandex miniskirts and gaudy, patterned blouses from behind a flowery curtain in her ramshackle apartment.
一个女人从她破败的仿佛要塌掉的公寓花朵图案帘子后兜售紧身弹力超短裙和粗俗艳丽的带图案短衫。Pyongyang is the show city, spruced up for the celebrations and visiting media, yet it remains dingy away from a few main streets.
平壤是个窗口城市,为了庆祝和访问媒体打扮地花枝招展,但是除了几条主要的街道,仍然肮脏破败。Indeed, Kim Jong-il appeared to have ruled over a country wracked by poverty and starvation.
金正日统治的这个国家早就因为贫困和饥饿而显得破败了。But if it continues to draw the wrong lesson from the tale of Japan, then one day its economy may look just as tatty.
但是如果中国继续从日本的经历中吸取错误的教训,那么有朝一日中国的经济也会破败不堪。In those ruined pictures, we catch not the happy anticipation with console, but the worry and fear about this crazy time.
在那些破败的图像中,我们捕捉到的不是美好的期待与慰籍,而是对于这个疯狂时代的恐惧与担忧。