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Michael Meyers melancholy last days of old Beijing is the most sustained and influential polemic,
邁克爾·梅耶斯的，老北京的最后歲月，其論點最持久，最負影響的
earning a Wall Street Journal Best Book award and a rank of 67,000 in the Barnes and Noble best seller list.
獲得華爾街日報最佳書籍獎并排名67000，那是在邦諾書局的暢銷書排行榜上
So, I came to Beijing in August 2009 fearing the worst.
所以我2009年8月來北京時預想著最壞的情景
On my second day I revisited a street in the Sanlitun embassy district that in 2005 had featured a 200 year old guest house,
第二天我重游了一條街，那是在三里屯使館區，那里2005年的時候曾有一個200年歷史的會館
expat' bar with $1 beers and a topclass sushi restaurant with a sack for a door and a corrugated iron roof.
外國風格的酒吧，賣一美元的啤酒，頂級壽司店，麻布做的門，瓦楞的鐵屋頂
And all I could find were glitzy clothing boutiques and electronics malls.
但我看到的只有華麗的服飾店，還有電子商品商場
Perhaps Beijing had become a concrete forest.
也許北京確實變成了水泥森林
And yet now that I've been walking and cycling around off beat, as well as gentrified, neighborhoods for 18 months,
然而我在這個城市里無方向地行走，騎車，也在翻新的房屋和街區逛了一年半
I'm optimistic to the extent that I believe Beijing is a rough diamond of a city, which central planners, developers, conservators and residents alike
我比較樂觀，認為北京像一塊未經雕琢的鉆石，政府的規劃，開發商，保護者和居民
are polishing into what may soon become one of the world's richest and most dazzling urban cultures.
都來打磨雕琢這個城市，也許在不遠的將來會成為世界上最富饒和絢麗的城市文化之一
To illustrate my contetion,which I should stres stand primarily on anecdotal observation, like the photographs I'll share with you today.
為了闡述我的觀點，我還應該強調一下它主要是基于我的人文觀察，比如我與你們分享的照片
