”, Mr McInerney’s first published story which ran in The Paris Review in 1982 and later became the opening chapter of “Bright Lights, Big City”.

杰•麦克伦尼先生把自己的故事第一次写入到1982出版的小说《巴黎回忆》中，后来又把它作为《灯红酒绿》的开篇章。

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If you dwell in a big, bright city with a lot of lights, your chances of catching a worthwhile meteor image are going to be slim.

如果你生活在璀璨的大都市，那么你拍到流星佳作的机会非常小。

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You're talking about the big city, big stage, bright lights.

你对大市时，大舞台上，明亮的灯光。

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Perhaps many state pupils share Mr Brown's view that Oxbridge is stuffy and old-fashioned, and are drawn by the bright lights of the big-city universities instead.

ECONOMIST: Will the government hobble Oxford and Cambridge?