1 | I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. | |
2 | 自明成祖迁都北平(北京)后,更大兴土木,修城建关。
Since the Yongle Emperor moved the capital to Peking (Beijing), the more massive construction projects in urban construction repair off. | |
3 | 然贪官污吏中饱私囊,大兴土木浪费挥霍,希望只能化作泡影。
But hopes are dashed as corrupt officials pocket the money or squander it on grandiose projects. | |
4 | 公元前246,嬴政称秦国国王,开始大兴土木建造自己的陵墓。
246BC Ying Zheng becomes King of Qin state and begins work on his tomb. | |
5 | 可是,在他们大兴土木的同时,可用于生产其他产品的人力和生产能力就会随之减少。
But when they built more houses they had just that much less manpower and productive capacity left over for everything else. | |
6 | 换言之,中国就算完全去掉所得税也依然有足够的钱在全国各地修桥铺路、大兴土木。
In other words, China could get rid of income taxes altogether and still have plenty to spend on bridges (and highways) to nowhere. | |
7 | 时下中国正大兴土木工程,关于中国能否将经济增长转向一条可持续发展道路的不确定性不断增多。
Still more uncertain is whether China, with its growing weight of mega constructions, can turn its economic progress on to an environmentally sustainable track. | |
8 | 他们用这些钱进行了投资,而不是挥霍在大兴土木和无关紧要的东西上。银行存款在他们的投资中占到了20%,其中许多用来向新兴市场发放贷款。
About 20% of their investing -- as opposed to spending on buildings or baubles -- is going into banks, much of that lent to emerging markets, the IMF says. | |
9 | 公元1420年,明朝将京城由南京迁至北京,同时大兴土木,在四个主要方位修建一些向神明祈祷的建筑。
When China's imperial1 court moved from Nanjing to Beijing during the Ming Dynasty in 1420, sites were required for supplication to the gods. | |
10 | 随着中国高速公路系统的建设接近尾声,政府的重点开始转移到在大兴土木期间相对受到较少关注的问题上。
As China's highway network nears completion, the government's focus is shifting to issues that got less attention in the headlong rush to build. | |
11 | 但是四川好几个不同地区的教学楼、医院和工厂的倒塌可能增加在中国大兴土木的阶段如何强制进行抗震代码管理。
But the collapse of schools, hospitals and factories in several different areas around Sichuan may raise questions about how rigorously such codes have been enforced during China's epic building boom. | |
12 | 在欧洲,失业问题在大兴土木风风潮业已崩溃的西班牙和爱尔兰等地发展最为迅速,而在其它地方才刚刚开始攀升。
In Europe joblessness has grown fastest in places such as Spain and Ireland, where building booms have crashed, but has only begun to edge up elsewhere. | |
13 | 笼罩在灰色天空下,各地大兴土木,中国正试图在对古代文明和自然环境被肆意破坏的同时寻找人类发展的新途径。
Shrouded in a spectral haze and dotted with cranes, the country is attempting to find a new path for human development amid the destruction of an ancient culture and a miserably abused environment. | |
14 | 填补全球金融架构留下的2万亿美元大窟窿其效果与2万亿美元经济刺激方案用于大兴土木所产生的需要不可同日而语。
Refilling a $2 trillion hole in the global financial architecture does not have the same effect on demand as, say, a $2 trillion stimulus package spent on brick-and-mortar projects. | |
15 | 莱特提出紧贴着什罗普郡最大的城镇特尔福德(大兴土木的1960年代的产物)画出一条选区分界线,第二个席位由圈外的村庄和集镇组成。
Mr Wright argued for a constituency drawn tightly around the county's largest town, the unlovely 1960s creation of Telford, surrounded by a second seat made up of villages and market towns. | |
16 | 这座城邦最伟大的统治者是帕克,他于公元603年夺取政权,他在位的68年间和以后,建筑革新开始,全国大兴土木,呈现一片建设繁荣景象。
The greatest ruler of this city-state was Pacal, who took power in 603 A.D. and commenced a construction boom of architecturally innovative buildings that lasted through and beyond his 68-year reign. |