我认为一个大城市的魅力至少部分地在于人们试图想判断它的独特之处,而这点只有在它与其他地方比较时才可以判定。——阿萨·布里格斯《维多利亚时代的城市》,第54页最近牛津大学出版社再版了一部30年代的英文普及指南——《上海全书》,其第一页用“东方的巴黎”和“西方的纽约”来描 I think the charm of a big city lies, at least in part, in how people try to judge its uniqueness, and this can only be judged when it is compared with other places. - Asa Briggs “The Victorian City”, p. 54 Recently Oxford University Press reprinted a 30’s Guide to Popularization of English - The Shanghai Book, the first of which was written in “Oriental Paris ”and“ Western New York ”to describe