第五章Those ad campaigns celebrating the Big Apple, those T-shirts with a heart design proclaiming ―I love New York, are signs, patheticin their desperation, of how the mighty has fallen.
答案:pitiful
New York was never a good conventioncity.To win in New York is to be uneasy; to lose is to live in jostling proximityto the frustrated majority.Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness those fragile sidewalk trees gamely struggling against encroachingcement and petrol fumes.A testing of oneself, a fear of giving in to the most banaland marketable of one’s talents, still draws many of the young to New York.In both these roles it ratifiesmore than it creates.New Yorkis a wounded city, declining in its amenities.So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquiland luxurious, that shut out the world.To him New York- despite its faults, which her will impatiently concede(―so what else is new? — is the spoiler of all other American cities.The place constantly exasperates, at times exhilarates .
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