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the mass of regular Beijingers lived and worked in often remote and isolated danweis;
大量普通北京人的工作和生活都常常在遙遠和孤立的"單位"里
self-contained gated communities comprising a factory, produce stalls, a school, a health clinic, and housing blocks.
那是一種自給自足的社區(qū)，包含工廠，農產品市場，學校，衛(wèi)生診所和居民社區(qū)
Danwei were regimented communitarian, grossly overmanned and inefficient.
它是受管制的、一種共產主義的社區(qū)，超員嚴重，效率低下
Workers called them iron rice bowls.
工人們稱之為鐵飯碗
They provided food and security, but there was no way out.
他們提供食物和安全，但是人去出不去
Your work unit became your identity.
你的工作單位變成你的身份
Much of what lies between the third and fifth ring roads are old Danwei factories put to new uses
很多在三環(huán)和五環(huán)之間的建筑都是以前的工廠單位，它們現在被另作他用
along with their dreary, yet functional, concrete housing blocks, like this one where I live.
連帶那些沉悶卻還能用的水泥居民樓，比如我住的這幢
My block is ugly on the outside,
我住的樓外面看很丑
but inside, my 400 square foot apartment is stylish, cozy, efficient and integrated into a vibrant, mixed income community just minutes from the subway.
但里面，我400平方公尺的房子很現代，溫暖，高效并融入了一個活力的不同收入人群的社區(qū)，距離地鐵只有幾分鐘
Chinese whose incomes have skyrocketed in the last 10 years are opting for a different way of living,
一些中國人的收入水平飆升，那是在近10年發(fā)生的事，他們選擇一種不同的生活方式
which developer's marketing hype tells them is fashionably western.
開發(fā)商在為了市場化而大肆宣傳告訴他們這是一種時髦而西式的生活方式
As one Beijinger explained it to me, they are buying into a lifestyle whereas hutong residents enjoy a life.
一個北京人跟我解釋，他們用錢去買一種生活方式，但胡同的居民是享受生活
This is La Foret, ah, the forest, but of concrete not trees, out on the fifth ring road, due north of the city.
這是個森林，但是由水泥組成，而不是樹木，延伸到五環(huán)路，城市的正北方
