来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第11集 第11集》

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  The idea was to use urban renewal
  他的想法是 利用城市重建改造
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  to remove workers from the center of the city to distant suburbs,
  将工人们从市中心地区移到远郊
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  and in the center to construct wide boulevards
  而在市中心地区建立
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  that could not be defended by barricades,
  不能设立路障的宽广的林荫大道
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  and that the troops could use to move quickly across the cities,
  以使军队能够在城市中畅通无阻
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  and cannonballs could fire down the boulevards to demolish barricades.
  而炮弹可以将林荫大道和路障摧毁殆尽
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  In other words, Paris was to be made revolution-proof,
  换言之巴黎被建成为一座防止革命的城市
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  or at least that was the goal.
  或者说起码有这个目标
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  It was also a project of public works;
  同时 巴黎重建也是一项公共事业工程
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  that is, it was a means of enormous patronage.
  也就是说 它成为了掌权者巨大的资助来源
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  It would provide employment and would defuse social tensions as well.
  它既可以提供就业 也能减少社会紧张
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  So, Paris, under Napoleon III,
  因此 在拿破仑三世的统治下