双语阅读英语外刊精讲:全球百万富翁聚集中心

2019-04-15 16:56:47来源:酷学英语

  金句解析

  A place where motor racing and yachting are the national pastimes and people hop into a helicopter to get from A to B instead of hailing a taxi.

  这是一个以摩托赛车和帆船运动为国家性消遣的地方,在这里,人们出门不是叫出租车,而是乘直升机。

  Then out of nowhere towering, concrete buildings emerge from an otherwise sleepy seafront.

  然后高耸的混凝土建筑突然从昏昏欲睡的海滨冒了出来。

  But it’s not just sea views these buyers are drawn to: this pocket-sized principality is also a tax haven.

  但是吸引这些买家的并不只是美丽的海景,这个弹丸之地同样也是避税天堂。

  If you drive along the Mediterranean coast of France, glimpses of pebbly beaches dotted with sun-bleached umbrellas poke through the cypress trees. Then out of nowhere towering, concrete buildings emerge from an otherwise sleepy seafront. When you spot shimmering skyscrapers, Bugattis whizzing past and a world-famous casino, you know you’ve arrived in the city-state of Monaco.

  如果你驾车沿着法国地中海海岸行驶,可以瞥见茂盛的柏树之中掩映着被太阳伞点缀的卵石海滩。然后高耸的混凝土建筑突然从昏昏欲睡的海滨冒了出来。当你看到闪烁的摩天大楼,呼啸而过的布加迪(Bugatti)和闻名世界的赌场,你就会明白自己已经身处摩纳哥城邦。

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