包包瓜瓜。My Love

每次看到英國人寫一些評論都會笑，今天看到這一則從bd寫出來的報導，沒想到他們也很專心追蹤up and down唷!
純粹關心一下布景氣裡面的各種現象...

This week's ups and downs

14 November 2008

GOING UP

• Ship shape and...

Dubai developer Nakheel, which has bought the QE2 from Cunard for £50 million, says it plans to transform the vessel into a luxury floating hotel and build a “very British” marine complex around it, including a nautical museum and gardens.

(杜拜人又要蓋一"艘"奢華的漂浮旅館啦，而且還是非常英國style，內容竟然還有博物館跟花園。好雄厚的財力啊...)

• ...Bristol fashion

Green group Forum for the Future says Bristol is the UK’s most sustainable city. Last year’s winner, Brighton, came second, Plymouth was third, and Newcastle, the only northern city in the top five, rose from eight to four.

(布理斯托成為英國最永續的城市啦，去年的冠軍布萊頓變第二，普里茅斯第三，紐卡素成為北方唯一入圍的城市。糟糕，這四個地方我都還沒去過耶...哭哭...)

• Not an ill wind

The world’s largest wind turbine maker, Danish firm Vestas, has reported third-quarter earnings of €160 million (£132 million), up from €102 million year on year. Sales are set to reach €5.7 billion (£4.7 billion) in 2008.

(丹麥渦輪製造廠商，Vestas，第三季營收成長。你英國人關心丹麥製造業幹嘛啊?!?!)

GOING DOWN

• Buy runs dry

The number of first-time buyers is now the smallest per quarter since 1974. The Council of Mortgage Lenders said there were 44,500 between July and September, down from 164,400 in the same period in 2001.

(貿易購買力枯竭，乾涸，無力...)

• Fat lady sings

Half a dozen houses on West 28th Street in Manhattan, where songs by Irving Berlin, Scott Joplin and Fats Waller were first sung, is under threat of demolition amid plans to sell it and put up a high-rise block.

• Trams are shed

Ken loved them, Boris can’t abide them. A new tramline for Oxford Street, an extension to Croydon’s Tramlink and a cross-river tram have all been scrapped.

QUOTED

‘It is a horrible failure... We missed the chance to make a 21st century Rockefeller Centre’

Veteran critic Ada Louise Huxtable gives her verdict in the New Yorker on developer Larry Silverstein’s plans for Ground Zero

21世紀的洛克斐勒中心，掰掰。我們沒有錢蓋你們...

一則有點看不懂，感覺卻很好笑的新聞...冏rz...