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2017考研英语阅读：柏林风华渐失 每年考研英语阅读篇章很多都取材于经济学人，因此2017年考研复习之初，一定要从基础打好，稳扎稳打。凯程考研频道分享《经济学人》文章，希望大家能够多看、多练，提升阅读能力！ 　　Berlins image 　　柏林映像 　　Losing its cool 　　风华渐失 　　The German capital, famous for its edgy urbanityand quality of life, looks tired 　　以前卫和高生活品质闻名于世的德国首都，如今却是一副倦怠的样子 　　A disappointing missed opportunity 错失良机，让人惋惜 WHEN a magazine proclaims on its cover that a city is the worlds “coolest”, it is often a signthat it has peaked. Newsweek did it to London in 1996, just as the city was becomingunaffordable for many cool people. Now it is Berlins turn. In October Stern, a Germanmagazine, declared the city the coolest, giving special attention to its many great clubs forpartying. 　　如果某家杂志封面上大肆赞美某个城市为世界“最好玩”的城市，那往往预示着这座城市开始衰退。美国《新闻周刊》曾经于1996年夸赞伦敦，而当时这个城市不断增加的消费让很多冷静的人难以承受。如今，轮到柏林上演这一幕了。德国《明星》杂志于10月份宣扬它是最好玩的城市，并特意报导了许多举行派对的大型俱乐部。 　　The party scene is thriving, drawing tourists from Tel Aviv toStockholmwho fly in for longinsomniac weekends. The most famous venue, Berghain, notorious for its arbitrary bouncers,is a world hub for techno music. But true cognoscenti are nostalgic for the rougher, anarchicdays just after the Berlin Wall fell, when clubs popped up in abandoned spaces along theformer no-mans-land, always several steps ahead of tedious fire regulations. A new book, “Berlin Wonderland”, documents the “wild years between 1990-96” with black-and-whitephotographs. 　　派对场面激奋人心，从特拉维夫到斯德哥尔摩的众多海外游客纷纷而至，在这里度过几个漫长无眠的周末。最出名的地方非世界电子音乐中心—柏林“伯根哈因”夜店莫属，其中随心所欲的保安让该店“闻名于世”。但真正的电音行家却一直怀念柏林墙倒塌后那些艰苦混乱的岁月，各种各样的夜店纷纷在之前无人地带的废弃地方出现，总能机智应对冗长乏味的禁火规定。《柏林奇境》这本新书用黑白照片讲述了1990年至1996年期间的癫狂岁月。 　　Some Berliners nostalgia goes further back. The hottest museum exhibition is about WestBerlin as a freedom-loving, libertine and yet parochial island surrounded byEast Germany.These days, by contrast, locals are annoyed by throngs of expats and westerners gentrifyingformerly edgy neighbourhoods like Prenzlauer Berg. 　　还有一些柏林人则怀念更加久远的年代。当时最受欢迎的博物馆展览主题一般是关于被东德环绕，地域狭小但崇尚自由，无拘无束的西柏林。相比之下，如今当地人却对不断涌入的移民和西方游客颇为恼怒—他们