Beijing is as ruthlessly unsentimental today as it was in Mao’s time, with little patience for history if it gets in the way of development, and yet the city doesn’t feel as if it were defined solely by growth, like Shanghai, or like the kind of entirely manufactured environment that you see in Dubai.
vivienne_v (06/25/2008)
下句中的manufactured environment 如何翻译呢？
Beijing is as ruthlessly unsentimental today as it was in Mao’s time, with little patience for history if it gets in the way of development, and yet the city doesn’t feel as if it were defined solely by growth, like Shanghai, or like the kind of entirely manufactured environment that you see in Dubai.
Mr.Big (06/25/2008)
完全是后来人为制造,或者人工造就的环境,氛围等.
vivienne_v (06/25/2008)
Many thanks, Mr. Big!