来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：欧洲文明第21集》

there's nothing behind it.

可实际上全没这回事
It's just all a fraud. It's nothing.

这完全是个骗局什么也没有
They would bring these visitors from the West

西方的访客被招引进来
in this brave new industrial world,

参观这个工业化的勇敢新世界
and they'd see parts of towns that had been reshaped.

他们会看到镇子的一些部分被修整了
They meet the first literate people in a family.

一户人家里第一个识字的人会晤了他们
It was very true.

这不假
Some good things happened, too.

一些有益的改变也的确发生了
But they were far outweighed by the bad things.

但是那些负面的影响远远盖过了正面影响
But a Potemkin village would be,

但是一个Potemkin村会在那儿
you'd go and you'd see this facade

你去了就看到这样的布景
and you'd be whisked through.

被领着浮光掠影地走一遍