纽约时报报道前门拆迁

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纽约时报07月11日头版报道前门地区拆迁：

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/11/news/beijing.php

Old Beijing Worries about the 2008 Gamge.BEIJING
A short walk from Tian/an/men Square and the Great Hall of the People, a
historic neighborhood known as Qianmen looks as if a bomb dropped on
it. Ancient homes lie in rubble. Scavengers squat in alleyways and wait
to ransack vacated buildings.
 

The bomb that hit the neighborhood is the 2008 Olympic Games, an event
that has turned much of the city into a noisy, disjointed construction
zone. New subway lines and new roads are under construction, even a
striking new downtown. On the city's northern rim, at least 25,000
laborers are building the Olympic stadiums and village.
 

And yet amid such grand projects, it is modest Qianmen, once the domain
of Qing Dynasty opera singers and classical scholars, that is prompting
an uneasy question: Will the Olympic Games, which organizers promised
would enhance the city's cultural heritage, instead help finish off
what remains of old Beijing?

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[此贴子已经被砖缝里的虫子于2006-8-1 2:44:06编辑过]

小苜蓿

Thanks for your information.

"...a historic neighborhood known as Qianmen looks as if a bomb dropped on it..." (前门，这个历史上天安门和人民大会堂的近邻，看起来像是刚刚有一颗炸弹降落在上面)  It's true!!![em03]

谜石

和楼上同感！

“bomb”这个单词给俺的印象深刻！