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But Mao had grand, utopian dreams of a collectivized countryside and an industrialized Beijing.
然而毛澤東有宏大而烏托邦式的夢想，是關于農(nóng)村集體化和北京工業(yè)化
So, he opted instead to tear down the walls and create a vast plaza
所以他選擇拆掉城墻，建一個巨大的廣場
10 times the size of Moscow's Red Square, surrounded by giant, concrete constructions in the soviet style of socialist modernism.
是莫斯科紅場的10倍大，周圍有巨大的水泥建筑，是社會主義現(xiàn)代化的蘇聯(lián)風格
For the 10th anniversary of the communist state,
為慶祝共和國成立10周年
Beijing had ten of these massive edifices including the great, oh sorry, I meant to stop here,
北京建了10座這樣的高大建筑，包括，不好意思，我想在這里停一下
including the Great Hall of the People which as I discovered a few weeks after I arrived in Beijing,
包括人民大會堂，我到了之后幾個星期之后才發(fā)現(xiàn)，當然是說到北京之后
is really a gargantuan banquet hall for party members and their guests.
發(fā)現(xiàn)它是一個龐大的宴會廳，用來接待中共黨員和他們的客人
Because the great leap forward bankrupted the economy, most of Mao's modernist plans for Beijing never materialized
由于大躍進搞垮了經(jīng)濟，毛澤東對于北京的各種現(xiàn)代化計劃
although there was plenty of cultural vandalism by red guards during the Cultural Revolution.
從未真正實現(xiàn)，盡管當時存在很多紅衛(wèi)兵領導的文化偷竊，那是在文革時期
Modeled on the ever expanding East-European socialist city, Mao's Beijing would have 8 suburban plots and 10 peripheral constellations.
基于一直在擴張的東歐社會主義城市，毛澤東的北京應有8個郊區(qū)和10個周邊衛(wèi)星城
This structure does not imply mobility, far from it.
這個結構一點也沒體現(xiàn)流動性，差得很遠
Indeed, Beijing would not have its first operational subway, subway line, until 1981.
確實，北京有第一條正式運營的地鐵線路，是在1981年
While thousands of communist party functionaries sequestered themselves in the best downtown courtyard homes,
當成百上千的共產(chǎn)黨官員把自己隔離在市中心最好地段的四合院里
