诗歌

水调歌头　游泳

才饮长江水，又食武昌鱼。

万里长江横渡，极目楚天舒。

不管风吹浪打，胜似闲庭信步，今日得宽余。

子在川上曰：逝者如斯夫！

风樯动，龟蛇静，起宏图。

一桥飞架南北，天堑变通途。

更立西江石壁，截断巫山云雨，高峡出平湖。

神女应无恙，当今世界殊。

Swimming

I have just drunk the waters of Changsha

And come to eat the fish of Wuchang.

Now I am swimming across the great Yangtze，

Looking afar to the open sky of Chu.

Let the wind blow and waves beat，

Better far than idly strolling in courtyard.

Today I am at ease.

It was by a stream that the Master said ——

“Thus do things flow away！”

Sails move with the wind.

Tortoise and Snake are still.

Great plans are afoot：

A bridge will fly to span the north and south，

Turning a deep chasm into a thoroughfare；

Walls of stones will stand upstream to the west

To hold back Wushan's clouds and rain

Till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges.

The mountain goddess if she is still there

Will marvel at a world so changed.

段落

虽然居住水平从技术指标上提高了，但出行高度依赖汽车，郊区居民被圈禁在小社区之内，丧失了城市里丰富多彩的生活选择的自由，丧失了在熙熙攘攘的人流中漫步、发呆、看人、被看的自由，丧失了与其他社区的居民随机地邂逅交流的机会。这时，动辄几万平方米的社区会所，只起着丰富业余生活的意义，并非有效的公共生活空间。

Technically， higher living standards are available there， but private cars become something of great necessity for the movement over long distance. As a result， the dwellers there， restrained in their limited societies， can no longer enjoy the free choice of the diversified life in the city center； find it impossible to stroll， remain motionless， examine the other people， or be examined in the crowed city center； and lost the opportunity to communicate with some other residents they came across. So the community in the suburbs， though as wide as tens of thousands of square meters， acts as nothing but a subsidiary area instead of an effective space for the public life.