双语发现:全球十佳城市排行榜大盘点(组图)

http://www.sina.com.cn 2009年11月09日 13:59   沪江英语
dusseldorf
dusseldorf

  Home to 31 per cent of New Zealand's population, Auckland boast twoharbours - Waitemata to the north and Manukau to the south, helpingearn its nickname: the City of Sails。

  榜单第五位,我们飞越大洋来到南半球的新西兰。别称航海之城的奥克兰拥有新西兰近三分之一的人口。

vancouver
vancouver

  Consistently ranking among the cleanest, most livable cities in theworld, Vancouver possesses an ethnically-diverse population, while ithas become a centre for shipping, film production and a popular tourist destination。

  几乎在任何相关榜单上,你都能看到温哥华以其干净、最适宜居住的形象榜上有名。温哥华是一个多民族城市,它同时也是航行、电影制作和旅行胜地的热门城市。

geneva
geneva

  With a population of around 185,000, Geneva is best known for diplomacy (it is home to various UN and Red Cross agencies), finance and the CERN nuclear research facility - birthplace of the World Wide Web and the Large Hadron Collider。

  只有18万人口的瑞士日内瓦是全球众多知名组织的所在地,其中包括联合国欧洲总部、红十字组织总部、欧洲核子研究中心、以及互联网和大型强子对撞器得发明地。

zurich
zurich

  One of Europe's richest cities and home to a wealth of multilingualEuropeans, Zurich has attracted the likes of IBM, UBS, Google andMicrosoft - each of whom has offices in the city. Novelist James Joyce died and was buried in Zurich。

  作为欧洲最富有的城市之一,苏黎世排名第二似乎不在意料之外。这座城市吸引了诸如IBM, UBS, Google和微软等多家世界知名企业落户。值得一提的是,作家詹姆斯乔伊斯是在这里去世、并埋葬的。

vienna
vienna

  The world's best city in which to live, according to Mercer, Viennaboasts great economic, cultural and political strength, was thebirthplace of Marie Antoinette and Sigmund Freud and has been sungabout by Ultravox and Billy Joel。

  榜单第一名揭晓:奥地利首都维也纳。维也纳良好的经济状况、文化风俗和社会秩序都是它赢得头筹的原因。同时,这里也是法国末代皇后玛丽安东尼特、以及弗洛伊德的出生地。

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