But very quickly I understood it: in this old-fashioned world of individual stories a thing as old-fashioned as a city quarter still plays a role.

但很快我就理解了：在这个老式的个人故事的世界里，类似一个城市角落这样的老式概念仍然还有意义。

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But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.

他们还没有躺下，所多玛城里各处的人，连老带少，都来围住那房子。

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If you came this way from the Old City, you most likely walked through the Jewish Quarter.

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But a tornado in January wiped out a large portion of the Quapaw Quarter, the old heart of the city.

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The same is true in Hanoi, where the city authorities are battling to stop new housing and retail developments encroaching on historic buildings in the old quarter.

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