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就在上周，小编的朋友圈被“墨尔本第五次蝉联全球最宜居城市”的消息刷屏了。在中国小朋友们为之“欢呼雀跃”的时候，你们知道墨村当地的人对于此事是什么看法吗？今天的这篇文章来自The age网站，里面不仅介绍了“城市”相关词汇，同时记者也表达了另外的声音。下面我们就来看一下吧！
Melbourne named world's most liveable city, for fifth year running
Clay Lucas City Editor, The Age
Melbourne has topped The Economist's liveability rankings for a fifth consecutive year.
· liveability：n. 宜居 livable 的名词形式
口语Part2话题说到城市或者家乡的时候可以说：Hangzhou is the most livable city in China / I think Box Hill is the most livable suburb for Chinese in Melbourne. 接下去一句只要解释livable就好啦！2-3句话半分钟，妥妥儿的！
· Sth has topped ...ranking
这里has topped 现在完成时表示在一个时间段内连续排名第一，可以用在小作文里面
· consecutive adj. 连续的
periods of time or events happen one after the other without interruption. 这里学习“连续几年”的表达方法。
But planning experts have warned that, while the liveability rankings were "marketing nirvana", they were meaningless for much of Melbourne, and got in the way of improving the city.
· planning experts 城市规划专家
· have warned
又一个完成时态，表示负责城市规划的专家们不停地在警告
· marketing nirvana
可以理解为“很好的（天堂般地）广告效益”
· meaningless for much of Melbourne 对于墨村来说并没啥意义
你自己可以换成“奥运会的建设”——While to host the 2008 Olympic Games was "marketing nirvana", it was meaningless for much of China
· get in the way of （词组） 阻碍、妨碍
近义词：impede/interfere with/ hamper/ hinder/ obstruct/ be a drag upon
例句： She never let her feelings get in the way of her job.
And a social services group said the ranking failed to recognise the growing disparity between those rich enough to live where good jobs and services were, and those in areas of high unemployment, poor transport and entrenched disadvantage.
· recognise
写作词汇 用来替换“know”、“understand”一下子高大上！
fail to recognise 可以理解成“没有认清...”
· disparity n. 不等
The growing disparity between those rich enough to live where good jobs and services were, and those in areas of high unemployment, poor transport and entrenched disadavatage. 贫富差距的表达，建议背诵。
· entrenched a. 根深蒂固
例句：
These attitudes are (deeply/ firmly) entrenched in our culture.
Computers are now an entrenched part of modern life.
The cities found to be least liveable were Tripoli in Libya, Lagos in Nigeria, Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, Dhaka in Bangladesh and Damascus in Syria. The rankings are the result of scores for "lifestyle challenges" in 140 cities worldwide, and issues such as housing affordability are not considered.
· the least liveable cities 最差城市
· housing affordability 住房支付能力
affordability 购买力 sth is affordable 买得起
Each of the cities chosen is assigned a rating of "relative comfort" for 30 factors across five categories: stability; healthcare; culture and environment; education; and infrastructure.
· stability/healthcare/culture/environment/education
描述城市时候可以思考的五个方面
Each factor in a city is then rated as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable, to reach a score out of 100. Melbourne this year scored 97.5 marks out of 100, including full marks for infrastructure.
· acceptable/tolerable/uncomfortable/undesirable/intolerable
五个表示喜欢/厌恶程度的词
· infrastructure （城市）基础建设
Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said Melburnians might not appreciate how good their city was. Cr Doyle said the ranking was "huge for us" and that many Melburnians did not realise how well known the city was for being ranked the most liveable.
"In a very competitive tourism or education market, this becomes a very important sale point for Melbourne," he said, speaking outside the Melbourne Town Hall on Tuesday.
这段主要在说墨村人民生在福中不知福
· Melbournians （复数）过来看墨尔本人怎么说？不要再让我听到Melbournese啦！
· They might not appreciate how good their city was. 生在福中不知福
· a very competitive tourism or education market 竞争激励的旅游或教育市场
· sale point 卖点
But the Lord Mayor also warned that the city's infrastructure was lacking and noted there were problems with road congestion - and then confirmed that he was being driven the 450 metres from the Town Hall to his next meeting at 101 Collins Street. Cr Doyle has previously encouraged Melburnians to use public transport rather than cars.Questioned over his use of a car to travel such a short distance, Cr Doyle said he often got the tram. "How many of you came to this press conference in a tram? Did you bring the cameras on the tram? Maybe not," he said.
此段有点跑题，重点在于跟市长和记者大人学习撕13技巧
市长先是承认墨村交通不太好，太堵了！
这一下子，就被记者抓住话柄并利落地抛出一个事实：你丫今天就是就是开车来的吧？！450米的路？要开车吗？？？你丫450米都开车还有脸宣传使用public transport？？？
市长积极回应：我平时都坐Tram嗒！我就今天坐车了！因为我要来开会呀~！
市长当然不是那么好惹的，紧接着一个问题问回记者：你丫开会坐Tram来吗？你们扛着这么多设备可能坐Tram吗？？
呵! 呵!
Adam Terrill is a town planner with Tract Consultants. "Large parts of Melbourne are unaffordable – the challenge is to share this liveability by finding homes for new residents that they can afford," he said. The Victorian Council of Social Service said the ranking ignored the high number of people living in areas of entrenched disadvantage..
另一个人出来吐槽墨村房价太高，已经住不起啦~
· Large parts of Melbourne are unaffordable – the challenge is to share this liveability by finding homes for new residents that they can afford.此句可以积累
· entrenched disadvantage 绝对劣势
"Inner city Melbourne is an attractive proposition for international recruiters who use [this survey] to lure prospective employees," said the council's chief executive Emma King. "The reality is very different for people who can't afford to live where the vast bulk of services are."
说一说评出最佳城市的真实获利群体吧
· 评这么个东西出来只是为了大企业招人用嗒
Inner city Melbourne is an attractive proposition for international recruiters who use [this survey] to lure prospective employees
prospective a.未来的 潜在的 n. 预期
prospective employees 潜在员工 prospective customers 潜在客户
· The reality is very different for people who can't afford to live where the vast bulk of services are.
vast bulk 大量的
Professor Whitzman said said the liveability ranking was all too often used to shut down conversations about the real problems with planning Melbourne."It is used as a tool to cut off talk about how we might do better," Professor Whitzman said.
· shut down conversations 堵嘴
总结：
1. 这篇文章中可以学到大量和城市发展相关的词汇和句式表达。
2. 这篇文章说出了墨尔本人对于“最宜居城市”的自（zhen）己（shi）的看法，可以引起同学们对热门事件的冷静思考。
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