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当大卫·霍克尼(David Hockney),一个长年缺乏阳光、来自英国北部的年轻人,1963年来到洛杉矶后,很快就断言这是“世界上最美丽的城市”。我却不这么认为。洛杉矶毕竟缺少了一个世界之都需要拥有的很多特征,比如说它没有一个像北京天安门广场或伦敦特拉法加广场那样显赫的中心,
When David Hockney, a young man lacking in the sun from northern England, came to Los Angeles in 1963, he quickly asserted that it was “the most beautiful city in the world.” I do not think so. Los Angeles, after all, lacks many of the features that a world capital needs to possess, for example, it does not have a prominent center like Beijing’s Tiananmen Square or Trafalgar Square in London,