英语翻译“城市,让生活更美好”是一句有着深刻时代背景和地理背景的口号.它不适用于很多国家和很多文明的发展阶段,事实上它不

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“城市,让生活更美好”是一句有着深刻时代背景和地理背景的口号.它不适用于很多国家和很多文明的发展阶段,事实上它不适合大部分国家,而几乎只适用于中国.对于西方文明国家来说,它们已经完全品尝了城市化与文明程度共同进步的果实,城市对于它们而言已经不再能够代表先进的生产力.美国开国元勋、《独立宣言》的起草人托马斯·杰斐逊在两百多年前就曾经爆炸性（而且不乏预见性）地评价道：“大都市是人类邪恶本性的渊薮.”同样,对于很多苦苦挣扎的城市来说,城市的生活并不那么美好.我们很难想象在墨西哥城、拉各斯（尼日利亚第一大城市）或是达卡（孟加拉国的首都）那些连绵不断的贫民窟里,城市除了贫穷、疾病和犯罪之外还孕育了什么.在电影《上帝之城》里,我们看到了在秽物遍地的社区里（如果它们还能够被称为社区的话）,生命和尊严怎样被环境碾为齑粉.
如果我们看到了上面这些对于城市与文明之间关系的否定证据,再回过头来看这句世博会的口号,我们会发现这是一种具有强烈“中国特色”的城市观.因为,正是现在,正是在这块土地上,城市史无前例地成了文明的象征.城市化被当做了文明进步的表征,而且几乎可以说是唯一重要的表征.城市生活的很多物质象征：留声机、电话等等,都是在世博会上展出的.这些物质表征的确让城市生活显现出一种不同于农业生活的魅力,但这种魅力和一个地区的城市化率显然有关.对一个在乡村同样可以通过亚马逊网站邮购Kindle的国家来说,城市的黄金时代已经过去了；对于那些“发展中”却步履蹒跚的国家来说,城市的黄金时代还没有到来.
我们不能否认城市发展对于文明的重要性,但也不宜将城市与现代化完全等同起来.因为文明总是需要有表征的,而我们会渐渐习惯于用“城市有什么”来代替“城市是什么”.柬埔寨是个典型的例子,他们刚刚提出了一个建设世界第二、亚洲第一高楼的计划,全然不顾一个事实,那就是这个国家的经济发展水平排在亚洲倒数第七,人均GDP在联合国的定义中属于“世界上最不发达国家”之列.就算这栋楼建成了,他们的排名也不会发生任何改变.金边的交警每个月的工资仍然只有10美元,需要靠罚款来维持生计.这种心态发展到最后,就会形成一种我称之为“孔雀粪崇拜”的行为模式.这个模式来自于一个寓言故事,即某个城市里流行戴孔雀翎毛装饰,孔雀翎毛是昂贵的,所有戴孔雀翎毛的人都被认为是上层人物,而家里能养孔雀的更是上上层人士了.孔雀的粪便有一种特殊的臭味,但是那些真正家里有孔雀的人由于希望炫耀自己的地位,非但不去掩盖这种臭味,反而认为是种身份的象征.这种心态发展到最后,竟成为一种全民的病态模仿,即每个人都以向自己身上涂抹孔雀粪便的提取物为荣.这个故事的结果之所以荒谬,是因为对于大众来说,如果没有被经常地提醒,他们就会有一种忘记实质而崇拜表征的倾向.

"Better City, Better Life" is a profound historical background and geographical background of the slogan. It does not apply in many countries and many stages of development of civilization, in fact, it is not suitable for most countries, and almost exclusively for China. For the countries of Western civilization, which has been fully enjoy the degree of urbanization and the common progress of the fruits of civilization, the city was for them no longer able to represent advanced productive forces. U.S. founding fathers, "Declaration of Independence," the drafters of the Thomas Jefferson once in two hundred years ago, the explosive (and no lack of predictability) to evaluate: "The city is a hotbed of evil nature of mankind." Similarly, for many struggling The city, the city's life is not so good. It is difficult to imagine in Mexico City, Lagos (Nigeria's largest city) or Dhaka (Bangladesh's capital) that the endless slums, the city in addition to poverty, disease and crime, in addition to what is conceived. In the movie "City of God", we see filth everywhere in the community (if they can also be called if the community), how is the environment of life and dignity of the grind to Jifen.
If we see the above cities and civilizations of these relations for the negative evidence, go back and look at the slogan of the Expo phrase, we will find that this is a strong "Chinese characteristics" city view. Because, it is now, it is in this land, the city became a symbol of civilization unprecedented. Urbanization has been characterized as the progress of civilization, and almost can be said that the only important characterization. Many physical symbol of urban life: the phonograph, telephone, etc., are on display at the Expo. Characterization of these substances does make urban life reveals the charm of a different agricultural life, but the charm and urbanization in a region clearly related. In the village on a site can also be mail-order through Amazon Kindle the country, the city's golden age has passed; for those "developing" countries that have hobbled the city's golden age yet to come.
We can not deny the importance of urban development for civilization, but the city should not be equated with the modern completely. Because civilization is always need to have representation, and we will gradually get used to, "What the city" instead of "What the city." Cambodia is a typical example of a building they had just made the world's second tallest building in Asia plan to completely disregard the fact that the country's economic development came in the seventh Asia Daoshu, per capita GDP in the United Nations definition of as "the world's least developed countries" list. Even if this building built, they will not be any change in ranking. Phnom Penh's traffic police are still paid each month is only $ 10, need to rely on penalties to maintain their livelihood. The development of this attitude in the end, it will form a what I call the "peacock dung worship" patterns of behavior. This model comes from a fable, a city that is popular to wear Kongque Ling hair decoration, Kongque Ling Mao is expensive, and all the people wearing Kongque Ling Mao is considered elite, and at home to raise the peacock is the upper class the. Peacock droppings have a special smell, but those who really at home there are peacocks show off their status as hope, not only do not cover up this smell, but that is a kind of status symbol. The development of this attitude in the end, have become a kind of imitation of the whole people sick, that everyone in order to apply to themselves proud peacock fecal extracts. The reason why the results of this ridiculous story is that for the general public, if not often reminded that they forget there is a tendency to characterize real and worship.