人民币来了！经济学人泛读巧译
AT THE new museum of Liverpool (above), a sleek limestone affair of Danish design, the city’s Chinese community, which began with an influx of sailors at the start of the 19th century, gets an exhibit to itself. The emphasis seems a little odd, until you consider the city’s regeneration strategy, which rests on a characteristically 21st-century mix of the local and the global. The aim is to use Liverpool’s storied past to attract investment from around the world—and from China in particular.
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在新落成的利物浦博物馆（见上图）——一个具有丹麦设计风格的圆滑石灰岩的建筑物里面，这个城市的华人们为自己举办了一个展览。这些华人的来历可以追溯到19世纪初大量涌入利物浦的水手们。强调这一事件似乎有点奇怪，除非你考虑到这个城市的复兴战略。这个战略是一个典型的将本地特色与全球投资相结合的21世纪混合体，旨在利用利物浦悠久的历史来吸引世界各地的投资，特别是来自中国的投资。
【好词好句】
1 be through tough times 经历艰苦岁月
2 the economic woes 经济困境
3 the lean years 艰苦岁月
4 Utopia 乌托邦
5 reinforce one's links to 加强与某事某人的联系
6 Legend has it that...这个是经常会碰到的句型
7 注意一下在本文出现的几个re-为前缀的词
比如 regeneration, replace, reopen, revamp
其实背单词的一个诀窍之一就是记各种词缀了╮(╯▽╰)╭
【summary】
A city’s bid to revive its fortunes through the local and the global.
Liverpool has been through tough times. Once an imperial entrepôt, the city built its wealth on the exchange of slaves, cotton and commodities. But the end of empire, the rise of air travel and the advent of shipping containers slashed maritime employment after the 1960s. Manufacturing failed to compensate for the losses, even if a cultural efflorescence led by the Beatles accompanied the economic woes.
Many problems persist. A city that held 856,000 people in 1931 now houses just over half that number. In the suburb of Anfield, home to Liverpool Football Club, an aborted regeneration scheme has bequeathed row after blighted row of boarded-up houses; gardens are overgrown with weeds and poppies sprout on street corners. The proportion of people on state benefits is twice the national average, as is the proportion of Liverpudlians who lack formal qualifications. Health is poor and life expectancy is low. Only two-thirds of residents work—41% of them in the public sector, which puts the city at especial risk in an era of government austerity.
