北京

According to city officials, half of Beijing residents commuted on public transportation during the Games.

根据北京官员的数据，奥运期间有半数北京居民乘坐公共交通工具出行。

I suggest that new kinds of global cultural dynamics be identified and delineated from the ones that have already been examined.

对北京中国重要经济中心职能的形成、产生争议的根本原因，以及现状的基础和未来的发展趋势进行研究，将有助於北京城市总体规划的科学修编。

This has led to the demolishing of the historic environment and has caused many socio-economic problems within Old Beijing.

然而，进入1990年代以来，随着房地产业的快速兴起，在北京旧城出现了大规模改造的热潮，不仅对北京旧城的历史文化环境造成了较大破坏，而且还给整个城市带来了各种社会经济问题。

At 9.30 am, after the emcees' introduction of 2008 Beijing Olympics, a command was given and Guangxi Television's 11 Youth Federation youths, including Lin Yan and Li Jia Jia, came running into the hall with relay torches in their hands.

9时30分，在主持人介绍了2008北京奥运会基本情况和北京奥运会火炬传递的盛况之后，随着一声号令，广西电视台的林严和李嘉佳等11位由广西青年联合会推荐的广西火炬手手持&祥云&火炬跑进了会场。

There are many kinds of ice-coats haws in China's cities, only Beijing's is the most famous, perhaps because the words of Beijng.

虽然北方其他城市的冰糖葫芦也很负盛名。但北京的，就不同了，带了个北京二字。

Most Beijing construction industry was heartened by the state-owned construction enterprises in Beijing to become the biggest winner.

最北京建筑行业感到振奋的是国有建筑企业在北京将成为最大的赢家。

Xintai officials do not see any shame in the tactic, and they boasted that hospitalizing people they characterized as troublemakers saved money that would have been spent chasing them to Beijing, the capital, where local security officers rack up steep hotel and restaurant bills.

新泰市官员不仅没有认为他们的伎俩感到羞愧，相反他们洋洋得意地宣称，闹事者医疗花销是来自捕获到首都北京上访者的花费，因为北京的安全官员节省了宾馆和饭店的花费。

But to those of us who live here, it is the metamorphosis of the city's "software," as it hurtles toward becoming one of the globe's great cities, that is really striking.

但是对于我们这些住在北京的外国人来说，城市&软环境&的变化更加重要。在北京朝着成为世界上最棒城市奋进的过程中，这种&软环境&的变化十分显著。

Being inspirited by a series of the city constructions of Peking for the 2008 Olympics, by analyzing and discussing the connotation of the new conceptions of Peking Olympics and the city image, the author put forward some proposals on how to set up and promote the city image in this article.

本文通过对北京奥运新理念和城市形象的内涵特征进行分析、归纳和总结，受北京为举办2008年奥运所进行的一系列城市建设启发，提出如何建设并提升城市形象的几点建议。

Some compare it to a globe severed at the Equator. To others it resembles a phosphorescent egg floating in a crystal sea. One prominent Beijing architect said that when the desert dust kicks up around Beijing, lathering the expansive glass dome in a pall of gray grime, it resembles nothing so much as dried dung. But the most apt analogy for the $300 million National Theater of China, now nearing completion in the political heart of Beijing, near Tiananmen Square, may be a hot potato....

有人把它比作在赤道被切开的地球，有人把它比作浮在水面上磷光闪闪的蛋，一位北京著名的建筑历史学家则说当沙尘暴来袭时会在这个昂贵的球体表面形成一层厚厚的灰尘，那时它不过是一堆臭狗屎；当然有关这个耗资近30亿元在北京的政治心脏天安门广场边即将竣工的的中国国家大剧院最客观的比喻无疑是一个烫手的山芋。。。。。

Singer Leona Lewis and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page emerged as the bus transformed into a grass-covered carnival float, and the pair combined for a rendition of "Whole Lotta Love".

歌手leona刘易斯和前率领的飞艇的吉他手吉米页出现巴士转化为基层所涵盖的嘉年华花车，和一双合并为一移交&整个lotta爱&。

This is Kate, and that's Erin.

这是凯特，那个是爱朗。