Behind the high-rises lie unpaved roads.
路尚未平,高楼却已建起。
The cities of that period, with their unsewered and unpaved streets, their dingy, flickering gaslights, their ambling horse-cars, and their hideous slums, seemed appropriate settings for the unformed social life and the rough-and-ready political methods of American democracy.
那个时期的城市,有没有下水道和没有铺砌的街道,有昏暗闪烁的煤气灯,有缓缓行驶的马车,还有丑陋的贫民窟,这些城市似乎适合美国民主制度未成形的社会生活和粗野的政治方法.
The first warm, spring rain had fallen the evening before. Wherever there was a patch of unpaved ground the green grass burst forth; the lindens were covered with green nap; the fowl-cherry and poplar unfolded their long, fragrant leaves.
前天晚上,第场温暖的春雨下了。只要有块未铺砌的土地,就会长出青草;菩提树上覆盖着绿色的绒毛;野樱桃和杨树展开了长长的、芬芳的叶子。