世博會(huì)重新彰顯上海國(guó)際化面貌

Expo Renews Focus On Shanghai's Foreign Side

The World's Fair that kicked off Friday night is designed to focus global attention on Shanghai -- but in doing so, it will largely reflect the outsize role foreigners have played in shaping China's most cosmopolitan city.
上周五晚上開幕的世博會(huì)，目的在于把世界的注意力吸引到上海。但在同時(shí)，世博會(huì)將在很大程度上讓人看到，在塑造這座國(guó)際化程度最高的中國(guó)城市的過(guò)程中，外國(guó)人所發(fā)揮的巨大作用。

President Hu Jintao opened the six-month Expo 2010 here with a riverside fireworks-and-armada extravaganza attended by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and others.
中國(guó)國(guó)家主席胡錦濤宣布為期六個(gè)月的中國(guó)2010年上海世博會(huì)開幕。開幕式上有江邊的焰火與艦船表演。法國(guó)總統(tǒng)薩科齊(Nicolas Sarkozy)等人出席了開幕式。

一位僧人上周五在觀看世博會(huì)開幕式上的焰火表演。

Aiming to match the prestige of past hosts such as Paris and Chicago, China is launching the first World's Fair hosted by a developing country and the biggest by expected visitors (70 million) and spending ($45 billion, rivaling its preparations for Beijing's 2008 Summer Olympic Games).
中國(guó)希望上海世博會(huì)達(dá)到和巴黎、芝加哥等歷屆世博會(huì)相當(dāng)?shù)乃?。這是世博會(huì)首次在發(fā)展中國(guó)家舉行，按預(yù)期游客人數(shù)（7,000萬(wàn)）和資金支出（450億美元，與2008年北京奧運(yùn)會(huì)的籌備相當(dāng)）來(lái)看，也是最為盛大的一次世博會(huì)。

The focus will be on pavilions from more than 190 nations, spread on two sides of the Huangpu River, that include Britain's pin cushion-like light box, Japan's purple worm-shape tent and the U.S.'s $61 million movie theater styled like a catamaran.
人們的注意力將集中于190多個(gè)國(guó)家的展館。這些展館分布在黃浦江兩岸，其中包括形如針墊、又像個(gè)發(fā)光的盒子一樣的英國(guó)館，日本館“紫蠶島”，還有美國(guó)造價(jià)6,100萬(wàn)美元的船形影院。

The pavilions mark the latest of more than a century of shifting international influence here. Shanghai's riverfront Bund zone includes Victor Sassoon's 1929 Cathay Hotel and, a few doors down, the 1925 Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. building with its mosaic ceiling of Calcutta and Bangkok ports.
一個(gè)多世紀(jì)以來(lái)，上海接受的國(guó)際影響風(fēng)云變幻，而這些展館正是這種影響的最新標(biāo)志。在浦江之畔的外灘，有1929年建立、沙遜(Victor Sassoon)名下的華懋飯店(Cathay Hotel)，不遠(yuǎn)處是1925年建立的匯豐銀行(Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp.)大樓，其穹頂上鑲嵌著描繪加爾各答和曼谷港口景象的馬賽克壁畫。

A historical witness to China's full-circle journey -- from subject of Western influence to strident opponent to, now, international host -- is the English Renaissance-style building at No. 2 Bund. Built a century ago as the Shanghai Club, it was frequented by British colonial tycoons. A half-century ago, it was seen as a symbol of Western decadence.
外灘二號(hào)的英國(guó)文藝復(fù)興式建筑上?？倳?huì)(Shanghai Club)見證著中國(guó)歷史的一個(gè)輪回：從屈從于西方的影響，到竭力反對(duì)，再到現(xiàn)在成為國(guó)際化的東道主。上海總會(huì)建成于一個(gè)世紀(jì)以前，曾是英國(guó)殖民大亨們頻繁光顧的場(chǎng)所。半個(gè)世紀(jì)以前，它被視為西方腐化的一個(gè)象征。

Now, it will be transformed into Hilton Hotel Corp.'s first Waldorf Astoria hotel in Asia.
現(xiàn)在，外灘二號(hào)將轉(zhuǎn)型成為希爾頓酒店集團(tuán)(Hilton Hotel Corp.)在亞洲的第一家華爾道夫(Waldorf Astoria)酒店。

Built in 1910, the club and its hallmark 110-foot Long Bar hosted bankers and taipans. In 1941, the Japanese Navy commandeered it. With Japan's 1945 defeat, the club's battered elite returned to discover shortened legs on billiard tables.
上?？倳?huì)建成于1910年，110英尺長(zhǎng)的標(biāo)志性長(zhǎng)廊酒吧(Long Bar)接待過(guò)眾多銀行家和大班。1941年，日本海軍占領(lǐng)了這里。1945年日本戰(zhàn)敗后，歷經(jīng)劫難的精英們回到這里，發(fā)現(xiàn)臺(tái)球桌的桌腿都被鋸短了。

Communists, taking power in 1949, squeezed the club for liquor taxes that bankrupted it in 1954, according to 'Building Shanghai' by Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren.
據(jù)丹尼森(Edward Denison)、Guang Yu Ren所著《建筑上?！?Building Shanghai)所述，共產(chǎn)黨人1949年執(zhí)政后，向上海總會(huì)征收酒稅，后者因此于1954年破產(chǎn)。

Within two years it was the International Seamen's Club, with a Mao statue and a 'Workers of World Unite' banner in Chinese, English and Russian.
兩年后，這里成了國(guó)際海員俱樂(lè)部，樹立了一座毛澤東像，并掛上了“全世界無(wú)產(chǎn)者聯(lián)合起來(lái)”的中、英、俄文條幅。

In the 1960s Cultural Revolution, Maoist Red Guards chopped the bar to pieces amid a purge of Western influences.
60年代的文化大革命中，紅衛(wèi)兵為了清除西方影響，把里面的吧臺(tái)砍成了碎片。

In 1989, the bar area reopened as Shanghai's first Kentucky Fried Chicken.
1989年，酒吧區(qū)域重新開放，成為上海第一家肯德基。

Now, with heritage architecture gaining fresh acclaim ahead of Expo 2010, No. 2 Bund's government-owned landlord allowed the neglected building to be remodeled into a Waldorf Astoria.
在2010年上海世博會(huì)開幕前夕，歷史建筑重新受到歡迎。在這種情況下，外灘二號(hào)的國(guó)有房東同意把這座被人遺忘的建筑改成一家華爾道夫酒店。

Atlanta architect-developer John Portman & Associates -- a family firm led by John C. 'Jack' Portman III, who has been active in Shanghai since 1979 -- is adding a 260-room skyscraper annex. Hilton didn't respond to requests to comment.
美國(guó)亞特蘭大建筑師事務(wù)所-地產(chǎn)開發(fā)商John Portman & Associates將加建一座260個(gè)房間的高層建筑。這家事務(wù)所是一家家族企業(yè)，負(fù)責(zé)人波特曼(John C. "Jack" Portman III)自1979年以來(lái)一直在上?；顒?dòng)。希爾頓集團(tuán)沒(méi)有回應(yīng)置評(píng)請(qǐng)求。

Standing atop the club's Sicilian marble staircase that he first climbed in 1986, 61-year-old Mr. Portman marveled at the club's 'ornate' ballroom. The building, he said, is 'a microcosm of what Shanghai was all about.'
波特曼第一次爬上總會(huì)大樓里的西西里式大理石樓梯是在1986年，如今61歲的他再次站到樓梯上，深深地折服于這里“華美”的舞池。他說(shuō)，這幢建筑是昔日上海的縮影。