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    The 'smelliest' cities on the planet (4)

    2014-05-08 16:59 China Daily Web Editor: Yao Lan
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    1. Los Angeles 洛杉磯

    L.A. is one of the most bizarre places on Earth, and it has an equally singular smell. The clear, alluring track of its scent is arresting. There's the ocean breeze from Santa Monica that can travel as far East as Silver Lake; a dry desert air that comes West over Downtown and South Central; the astringent balm of eucalyptus, pine, honeysuckle, and jasmine from the hills; and car exhaust from catalytic converters, which is, in its strange industrial way, beautiful. It's like the jolt of a drug: shifting, comforting, cool like a blanket. The lonely smell of the marine layer burns off and you get this flashy perfume of hot asphalt, engines, and sun block that you can find nowhere but in L.A.

    洛杉磯是世界上最奇異的地方之一,它同樣有一種奇特的氣味.清晰、誘人的氣味十分吸引人.從圣莫妮卡吹來的微風(fēng)能夠?qū)馕稁У胶苓h(yuǎn)的地方;從西部中心地區(qū)和南方中部地區(qū)沙漠的帶來的干燥空氣;從山上吹來桉樹、松樹和金銀花的酸澀芳香,還有茉莉花的芬芳;從汽車的催化轉(zhuǎn)換器中排除的廢氣,帶有一種怪異的工業(yè)美感.如同一味五味陳雜的藥:不斷變換又帶來舒適的感覺.你可以嗅到澎湃的海洋帶來的孤獨(dú)氣息,以及熱瀝青、引擎和防曬乳液的混合的味道,除了洛杉磯,沒有任何地方擁有這種味道.

    The Worst-Smelling 全球最差氣味城市

    Paris 巴黎

    Let's just start off with the breath. The oral care standards of Parisians are utterly unlike any I've ever known. Thanks to their pack-or-more-a-day cigarette habits, every other person smells like smoke-cured human bacon. You smell coffee, but not the fresh stuff in the cup—the smell of it in someone's mouth four hours later. Then there's the repulsive odor that wafts from the RER train system. If Satan farted, it would be a little like this sulfurous cocktail of burning photocopies and fried electrical wires. Sure, the gourmand perfume of fresh croissants, butter, and baked flour spills onto the street. But take a few more steps and you're smacked in the face by the equally fresh smell of dog shit. If you close your eyes, you discover the marketing of Paris—that whole "city of light" garbage that's eagerly swallowed by tourists—is really nothing but a lie.

    讓我們從呼吸開始.巴黎人的口腔護(hù)理標(biāo)準(zhǔn)非常獨(dú)特.幸好很多人有經(jīng)常抽煙的習(xí)慣,其他人聞起來像熏過的人肉培根.你聞到咖啡,但不是盛在杯子里的新鮮咖啡,而是四小時后從某人的嘴里聞到咖啡的味道.還有巴黎地鐵上令人作嘔的氣味.如果撒旦放屁,可能就是這種非常怪異的混雜氣味.當(dāng)然,街上還有新鮮的羊角面包、黃油以及烘烤面粉的味道.但是,多走幾步之后撲面而來就是另一種惡心的味道.如果你閉上眼睛,就能發(fā)現(xiàn)巴黎的營銷市?舜罅坑慰偷乃?光之城"其實(shí)只是一個騙局.

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