IBM's top-ranked U.S.city is Houston - a sprawling metropolis on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

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The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.

都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。

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Behind this environment are the great social processes of migration and modernization that produced that new urban form, the metropolis.

在这种环境背后是移民和现代化的重大社会进程,所带来的新的城市形式，即大都市。

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The metropolis which uproots people, takes them away, takes them out of traditional cultures, also uproots traditional religious belief and practices.

人们扎根，随之漂流的都市，将他们从传统文化中剥离出来，同时也将那些传统的信仰与实践根除。

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The metropolis is the center of this unsettled world that Marx describes.

大都会是马克思所描述的未安定世界的中心。

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Life in the modern metropolis was de-familiarizing.

现代都会的生活是令人陌生的。

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