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Just as it tends to be for China at large, where an uncaring authoritarian government is supposed to repress its caring masses
這就如同說中國，普遍來說，冷漠的集權政府正壓迫熱血的大眾
and greedy entrepreneurs in cahoots with corrupt officials poison American's dog food with melamine
還有貪婪的商人，他們與貪官污吏同流合污，中國用三聚氰胺污染美國的狗糧
shrimp with mercury, toys with lead, and toothpaste with diethylene glycol
用汞污染蝦，出口含鉛的玩具，還有含二甘醇的牙膏
According to the naysayers, Beijing is an ugly city of sweatshops, gridlock, brash commercialization and choking pollution
據反對者的說法，北京是一個丑陋的城市，充滿血汗工廠，交通堵塞，瘋狂的商業化和令人窒息的污染
Where big brother is always watching and bureaucrats take kickbacks from rapacious property
在這個城市，政府總是在監視著，官僚從貪婪的地產商手里收取回扣
developers who have leveled whole neighborhoods in the name of progress
地產商鏟平整個街區都是以發展的名義
evicting elderly residents and destroying a centuries old cultural heritage
政府還驅逐老年居民，破壞保存幾個世紀的文化遺產
From the 1990's on, bemoaned Harvard historian Jeremy Barmay, citizens of old Beijing were increasingly displaced from the alley courtyards
從20世紀90年代開始，來自哈佛的歷史學家杰瑞米，巴爾美惋惜地說，老北京的居民被迫開始越來越多地遷出四合院
by the new rich and relocated to tower blocks outside the forth and fifth ring-roads
被城市的新貴擠走，搬到四環，五環以外的樓房里去
Beijing a Recent History, by Lillian Lee, Alison Dray-Novey and Haili Kong documents a heartbreaking urban crisis
《北京近代史》一書由莉莉安，李，艾莉森，德雷諾威，和孔海力編著記錄了一個令人心碎的城市危機
Beijing seemed to be for sale, they write, "As large chunks of urban real estate were claimed by developers
他們寫道，北京好像是在被出售，"大塊大塊的城市土地被開發商圈走
Within the old city, neighborhood after neighborhood fell to the bulldozer."
老城區內一個接著一個街區被推土機鏟平"
