But it can afford to expend immense amounts of energy...

但能承担得起消耗巨量的能源
To desalinate seawater and build the highest skyscrapers in the world.

淡化海水并建筑世界第一高楼
Dubai has endless sun but no solar panels.

迪拜光照充足但却没有太阳能板
It is the city of more is more,

这是个奢侈的城市
Where the wildest dreams become reality.

这里狂想可以成为现实
Dubai is a sort of culmination of the western model,

拥有完全现代化的800米高标志物
With its 800-meter high totem to total modernity...

让所有世人叹为观止
That never fails to amaze the world.

迪拜是西方模式的某顶点
Excessive? perhaps.

太过分也许
Dubai appears to have made its choice.

迪拜显然是做了自己的选择
It is like the new beacon for all the world's money.

它就像世界财富的新灯塔
Nothing seems further removed from nature than Dubai,

没有哪里像迪拜这样脱离自然