at Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, for example, most--or the suburbs,

比方说在圣雷米什弗留兹或是郊区
in the time we're talking about, until 1945,

我们讨论的时间直到1945年
are miserable places,

郊区都是很凄苦的地方
but that people in Saint-Germain en Laye in the west of Paris

但是在巴黎西部的雷城堡的人们
or Versailles, you know what,

或是在凡尔赛的人们你们知道吗
they wanted to have their pavilion which was a big kind of modern

他们就想要他们的房子按照美国式的房屋
Americanized house with all these things--cell phones,

设置有移动电话
refrigerators, all this business,

并行啊所有的一切
swimming pools and lawns.

游泳池和草坪
What could be more American than lawns?

没有比草坪更美国式的了
Now, the vast majority of the people who live in the Parisian region do

现在绝大多数居住在巴黎地区的人们
not live in houses, they live in apartments,

不是住在平房他们住在公寓里