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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

packaged villages

01.“the new suburbia, the 00packaged00 villages that have become the dormitory of the new generation of organisation men”.02br
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00What does "00packaged00 00" mean here? 02br
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002.His shirt is white and his suit and tie are dark, 00broken00 only 00by the line 00of a01font00 white02font00 handkerchief in his breast pocket.02br
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00Does "00broken00 only 00by the line ...00" mean the line of the handkerchief is white or could be of any color?02br
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00Thank you very much.0-
  

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02br 00 or02br 01i 00Prepared/packaged for the urban taste02i 00,01i 00 thus fake. 02i 02br 02br 02br 002. The handkerchief is all white.

— Marius Hancu

  • 02br 00 or02br 01i 00Prepared/packaged for the urban taste02i 00,01i 00 thus fake.
  • 02i 02br 02br 02br 002.
  • The handkerchief is all white.
  • Only a small part of it shows up from the breast pocket, and that part is like a white line on a dark background.
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00 Prefabricated, production-line02i00, 01i00standardized02i00 seems to me to be the hint ...02br
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01i00Prepared/packaged for the urban taste02i00,01i00 thus fake. 02i02br
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101.“10the new suburbia,10 the 10packaged10 villages that have become the dormitory of the new generation of organisation men”. 11b11font10These used to be referred to as "bedroom communities". Seattle's Bellevue, one such community in 1970, is now
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0 But why are those small, cheap and similar houses called "packaged houses"? I can't see any relationship between "packaged" and the meaning of "small, cheap and similar", so I don't know how to translate "packaged houses" into Chinese. 0-
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10But why are those small, cheap and similar houses called "packaged houses"? I can't see any relationship between "packaged" and the meaning of "small, cheap and similar", so I don't know how to translate "packaged houses" into Chinese. 12blockquote
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0The original isn't talking about packaged houses, it says packaged villages.02br
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00I would interpret that to mean newly created 'artificial' villages instead of ones that have just developed over time.0-
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10But why are those small, cheap and similar houses called "packaged houses"? I can't see any relationship between "packaged" and the meaning of "small, cheap and similar", so I don't know how to translate "packaged houses" into Chinese. 12blockquote
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0I agree with Nona. They are not 01b00fake 02b00villages, but they did not grow up naturally over time. A developer came in and built it up all at once. I heard recently that huge cities are developing in China with a couple years - cities of the size that woud have taken fifity years to grow that large in the U.S. There are probably areas of housing that are being built l
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0 We are getting a lot of these 'villages' built in the UK too - they are more marketable than calling it a housing estate! 0-
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0 I still think 01i00fake02i00 would work here:02br
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01b00:02b00 01b00simulating the genuine person, thing, or article :02b00 being a fake 01b00: 
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0 Well, I don't want to continue an argument, but that just doesn't make sense. People DO live in them - they are houses and together form villages. They are not empty shells that people can't live in, like a pocket flap that is a fake pocket. They might not have the same "feel" as a town that grew up on its own, but it's still a real town. 0-
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