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高翻翻译实践（英译汉和完型）The Short March短行军TIME MAGAZINE, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008时代周刊,2008年2月14日,星期四By BILL POWELL/SHANGHAI文.比尔 鲍威尔/上海TIME Senior Writer Bill Powell, who moved to a town outside Shanghai in 2006, talks about joining the millions of Chinese who are building the country\s booming suburbs时代杂志职业作家，他将在文中与我们分享他2006年搬到上海郊区，成为推动郊区急速发展的数百万中国人之一的感想。On a cold, gray afternoon a year ago, I stood on the deck of our newly purchased, half-constructed house about an hour outside Shanghai, wondering what, exactly, I had gotten myself into(into what?). My wife, a Shanghai native, and I had moved back to China from New York City in the spring of 2004, and 21?2 years later we had decided to take the plunge. We bought a three-story, five-bedroom townhouse way out in the suburbs, in a town called New Songjiang, a place that was then — and remains now — very much a work in progress. 一年前的一个寒冷阴暗的下午，我站在我们距离上海市区一小时车程的尚在建设中的新房的地板上，陷入了沉思。我的妻子是上海本地人，我在2004年春天离开纽约来到中国，两年半以后我们做了这个决定。我们在上海郊区一个叫新淞江的地方购置了一套三层五居室的别墅。新淞江当时——可以说直到现在——一直在飞速发展。 We had come here that day to see how construction was progressing. Our house, along with about 140 others, was going up in a development called Emerald Riverside. It sits on the banks of a tributary that dumps into the Huangpu, the river that cuts Shanghai in two about 28 miles (45 km) to the northeast. On that dreary afternoon I gazed out to the other side of the river, looking at the only significant patch of land for miles that was not yet being developed ——about five acres (20,000 sq m) of green that local farmers still used to grow watermelons, which they then sold to the migrant workers building this town. On the far bank there was a ramshackle one-room brick house, where three of the farmers lived — a husband, wife and teenage son. They had no running water — they bathed and washed their clothes in the river — and the place was lit by a single bulb. In every direction just beyond the watermelon patch, office parks and houses and apartment comp