1·When the last gunsmoke dissipated above the Suzhou Creek three score years ago, a newly-born city of such greatness ushered in a brilliant chapter in history.
60年前,当最后一缕硝烟飘散在苏州河上,一座新生的伟大城市,从此开启了历史辉煌篇章。
2·I was born and raised a city boy.
我是个在都市里出生长大的男孩子。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable.
首先是纽约这座城市,在这里出生的男男女女们认为这座城市的存在是理所当然的,认为城市的规模和动荡都是自然形成的,是必定会发生的事情。
4·The city had a large foreign-born population (26.5 percent in 1990), leading to broader diversity, which, the Harvard and Berkeley economists say, is a good predictor of mobility.
这座城市一直以来都有大量的外国出生人口(1990年比例为26.5%),进一步增强了人口多样性。哈佛大学和伯克利大学的经济学家认为,这预示着良好的流动性。
5·This is a city of immigrants 38 percent of the city's population today is foreign-born and immigrants and their children have historically experienced significant upward mobility in America.
这是一座移民城市——该市如今38%的人口为外来人口——移民以及他们的子代在美国经历了显著的向社会上层流动。
6·I love this city, especially in the spring, even though I was not born here.
我爱这座城市,尤其是在春天,尽管我不是在这里出生的。
7·Born in the Bavarian city of Ulm in 1879, Einstein moved to Switzerland at 17 to evade military service.
1879年,爱因斯坦出生于德国乌尔姆的巴伐利亚市,17岁时,为逃避服兵役,他移居瑞士。
8·Great changes have taken place in the city where she was born.
她出生的那个城市已经发生了巨大的变化。
9·As Charles Burris has pointed out, they were both born in New York City, in 1926.
正如查尔斯·布里斯所指出的,他们都于1926年在纽约出生。
10·It can tell you the relative humidity of the city you were born in on the day you were born, and it does calculus, too.
它能够告诉你出生那天你所在城市的相对湿度;甚至还可以进行微积分计算。