诗歌或房地产投机：是啥让中国和剑桥陷入爱河 [英国媒体]

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On the edge of Scholar's Piece, the strip of farmland just behind King's College, lies a granite stone which has become arguably Cambridge's most coveted tourist attraction. 

靠近国王学院那片带状农田上，屹立着的一块镌刻着学者文章的花岗岩石碑，无可争辩地成为剑桥最引人入胜的旅游景点。

For the many students who amble past it every day, it's easily missed; placed rather innocuously next to the bridge that joins Scholar's Piece to the rest of the college. But for the thousands of Chinese tourists who travel to Cambridge every year, it is this, rather than the city's grand 15th-century chapel, meticulously manicured lawns or historical statues, that they've come to see.

每天都有学生漫步经过这块刻着学者文章且毫不违和地屹立在桥旁边的石碑，鲜有人留意到它的存在；但对于每年成千上万前往剑桥的中国游客而言，他们是为这块石碑而来的，而不是城市里宏伟的15世纪教堂，精心修剪整齐的草坪或历史雕像,。

Carved into the stone are the first and last lines of a poem that has gone down in Chinese folklore. Titled Farewell to Cambridge, it was written in 1928 by Xu Zhimo, a 31-year-old poet and writer who was revisiting King's after studying there in the early 20s.

镌刻在石碑上的一首诗，其第一和最后一行诗句已在中国民间广为流传。这首名为再别康桥的诗，由徐志摩写于1928年，一个31岁的诗人和作家在重访自己20年代初期就学过的国王学院时所写的。




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wunhunglo 22 Mar 2016 08:40
They'll probably flog the university to them.

【政府】也许会把大学卖给【中国人】。

creetree 22 Mar 2016 08:39
Well they've successfully managed to prevent an entire generation of locals from buying a house in NZ and Australia and quelle surprise, they're doing the same thing in Britain.
 Answer me this, in a democracy, who is the government's primary duty to, the citizens and taxpayers of that country, or to Chinese investors? This is treasonous, in my opinion.

好吧，在新西兰和澳大利亚，他们已经成功阻止了一整代当地人购买房子，令人惊讶的是，他们现在在英国做着同样的事情。
回答我，在一个民主国家，谁是政府首先应该负责的人群，是作为该国纳税者的公民，还是中国的投资者？在我看来，政府已经犯下了叛国罪。

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plasticnortherner11 22 Mar 2016 08:37
It does make me uneasy the way the Chinese explosion has happened in Cambridge and I personally have profited it in a number of my jobs. However, as you see them cruising around the city in the Land Rovers (etc.) you realise that having an open-door policy for a huge, powerful country who have more than enough resources to support their people that something is not quite right....

中国人在剑桥的大规模存在，确实令我感到不安，但是我也从相关的工作中赚得了利润。然而，看着他们开着路虎等车在城市中穿梭时，你会意识到对这么一个养活自己人民绰绰有余的巨大且强大的国家实行开放政策或许不是正确的做法。

tonyalex 2m ago
Why has nobody blamed the EU yet?
I'm confused.

为什么还没人来骂欧盟？
真是奇怪啊。。。

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Usedhankerchief 2m ago
The Swiss, wisely, restrict foreign ownership of property. It is time Britain follows suit. The use of BVI companies to invest in London flats gives drugs money the opportunity [at a cost of 15% stamp duty] to launder profits and also collateralise the property in the BVI shell - so that on further sales only the BVI company shares change hands.

瑞士明智地限制了外国房地产的所有权。是时候让英国跟着做了。他们利用在英属维尔京群岛注册的公司在伦敦投资房产，所以毒资有了洗钱的机会（15%印花税的成本），并抵押掉英属维尔京群岛空壳公司名下的房产——所以进一步销售时也只是该空壳公司的股份易手而已。

ThePeoplesPoet 11m ago
Cambridge?

剑桥？ 

I thought the Chinese loved Liverpool and Man Utd?

我以为中国人爱利物浦和曼联的？ 

JackiesBlanket 13m ago
Goodbye, Cambridge.

 再见，康桥。

Martin51  JackiesBlanket 2m ago
Lovely start, but please give us the rest.

美妙的开始，但把其余的留给我们。

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stuartaitken 16m ago
 我会汉语。虽然讲得称不上流利但还行的。我去过百度贴吧练习中文。当习近平拜访英国的时候评论基本是“lol（笑），英帝衰没了，不久就是我们的“

IveSeenItBefore 20m ago
 某人在剑桥区域得到了买卖财产权？

sedahS 20m ago
是钱

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JanisForehead 21m ago
Vale Cambridge. The Chinese who buy ppty overseas have unfathomably deep pockets basically from corruption, exploitation and tax avoidance so they can price anyone out. In addition they need to take their money of China because they fear their govt and it's random retribution by way of corruption inquiries. They have a herd mentality when it comes to these things, unsure if they should go alone, but if a few have started buying in an overseas location (eg Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland) and have done so successfully then quickly thousands will join in from "fear of missing out". This is what major Australian cities have experienced locking out locals and was the same in Canada until the govt there brought it to a halt. You can kiss Cambridge goodbye.

再会，康桥。通过贪污、剥削和“避税”而发家购买海外资产的中国人具有深不可测的经济实力，所以他们可以出得起任意的价格。另外，他们需要花掉他们在天朝的钱因为他们害怕政府和反腐审计。当他们遇到这种事情时，就会有从众心理了，刚开始时不确定是都应该单独行动，但是如果他们中一些人开始购买海外资产（如在悉尼、墨尔本、奥克兰）并很成功，就会应者云集，害怕自己掉队。这就是澳大利亚主要城市所经历的，导致当地人买不起房，加拿大也一样，直到当地政府制止了这种行为。吻别康桥吧！
 
FitzHat  JanisForehead 2m ago
"....was the same in Canada until the govt there brought it to a halt". Tell that to anyone trying to buy property in Vancouver.

“加拿大那边也一样，直到当地政府制止了这种行为”。把这话对试图在温哥华购买房产的人说吧。

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lordhawking 21m ago
money talks and shit walks, so i'll be getting my bags. getting priced out of my own country ...

有钱能使鬼推磨（原文有错误，一般情况是说bullshit walks），所以我要整理行李，然后滚出我自己的国家。

stoneriver 22m ago
---"Zhimo died three years later in a plane crash"?
Oh please, Zhimo is his first name OK?

“志摩三年后因为飞机失事而亡”?
拜托，志摩是他的名好不好！（！?）

Martin51 stoneriver 22 Mar 2016 08:36
No, it's his second name, or his given name. Xu is his family name. Tricky this pedant stuff isn't it.

不，这是他的姓，或者说他的名。（我凌乱了。上文说得first name 一般指的是西方人名字的第一个字，也就是相当于国人的名。此处的second name 一般指的是西方人名字的第二个字，也就是相当于国人的姓。然后他又提到了given name ，就是被给的名字，也就是中国人的名。。要绕晕了。反正徐志摩是姓徐名志摩就是了。）徐才是他的姓。这些书呆子的东西真是麻烦不是吗？（←_←）

delphinia 27m ago
Is IDS going to speak out about the folly of letting homes be used as investments rather than being lived in?

卡梅伦会为这个把房子用来投资而不是住人的荒唐闹剧发声吗？

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MoDeLornes 28m ago
Cameron and Osborne are deliberately selling us to China. China is really, really serious bad news for us and the whole world.

卡梅伦和奥斯本故意把我们卖给中国。对我们和整个世界来说，中国是真的，真的，十恶不赦的坏家伙。
 
MattSpanner  MoDeLornes 24m ago
...especially since there are 1.4 billion people in China and very few houses in the UK.

尤其是中国拥有14亿人口，而英国的房子一共就那么点……（咩哈哈，欢迎你成为我们的大不列颠省！）

MattSpanner 38m ago
The Chinese don't just have a love affair with Cambridge, they also have a love affair with London, Perth, Darwin, Auckland and anywhere else that isn't China. The reason is that the Yuan is expected to depreciate 25% against the USD this year and anyone with money in China wants to move it offshore. And then there's the fact that China is an unstable one-party state without the rule of law, freedom of speech, or any of the freedoms those in the West take for granted. Also, China's economy is tanking. The official GDP growth figure of 6.9% is regarded as fiction especially by the Chinese, and in dictatorships collapsing economies often result in collapsing regimes, something the Chinese have experienced many times over the centuries. Read up on the Taiping Rebellion, Boxer Rebellion etc for more on that. Finally, China has territorial disputes with Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, South Korea and Brunei which could erupt in hostility at any moment. Much safer to be elsewhere. The Chinese are noted for a keenly developed survival instinct honed over years of bitter experience with rapacious regimes, and they are acting accordingly.

中国人不只是与剑桥坠入爱河，他们还爱上了伦敦，珀斯，达尔文，奥克兰和其他任何不属于中国的地方。原因是今年人民币对美元预计将有25%的贬值，中国任何一个有点小钱钱的人都希望将其资产转移到海外市场。另外还有个事实，中国是个不稳定的一党制国家，没有法治，言论受限，没有任何在西方国家被认为理所当然的自由。同时，中国的经济已经饱和。官方GDP 6.9%的增长率已被公认是中国虚构的，独裁政权经济的崩溃往往导致制度的崩溃，这在过去的几个世纪中中国人已经经历了许多次。你可以去研究下太平天国运动，义和团运动等等。最后，中国与日本、越南、台湾、菲律宾、马来西亚、韩国和文莱有着领土争端，这种敌意就像定时炸弹在任何时刻都可能会爆发。所以在中国以外的其他地方更安全。中国人在如此贪婪的政权中痛苦磨砺多年，已经形成了极其敏锐的生存本能，所以他们才会做出这样的举动。

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Winterspark 43m ago
I remain pretty convinced that the housing crisis in this country is as a result of inadequate supply. However, allowing overseas investors to buy property in this country carte blanche can't help the situation. Why on earth UK residential property ownership is not restricted to British (or at least EU) permanent residents only I have no idea.

我一直确信这个国家房屋危机是由于供给不足的原因。然而，让海外投资人随意购买房产也无助于事情的解决啊。就是搞不懂为什么英国的不动产所有权为什么不让它烂在英国永久居民手中，最少也应该只让欧盟成员国居民拥有啊！

Yosserian Winterspark 45s ago
We have to bear in mind that supply is only half the equation of supply and demand. Issues of supply could be less severe if demand weren't so high - so both sides of the equation need to be analysed.

我们应该记住供给只是供需的一方面。如果需求没有这么高的话，供给问题也不会变得这么严重。所以供需双方都应该被分析来解决问题。

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ranelagh75 48m ago
And wealthy Chinese appear keen to cash in: the estate agents Savills estimate that in the past year, one in 20 new-build homes across the city and surrounding villages have been bought by Chinese owners.
This is utterly grotesque. Why on earth our government -which is literally employed to represent us and our interests - allows overseas investors to snap up our collective property, to then rent back to us and make a profit out of our need for a roof over our heads, is literally beyond our comprehension.
Any sensible government would and should enact residency restrictions on property ownership immediately.

富裕的中国人似乎热衷于趁机获利：地产代理商Savills估计道，在过去的一年中，整个城市和周边村庄每20栋新建房屋，就有1栋被中国人买走。
这简直太可笑了。为什么我们的政府（字面上代表我们和我们的利益）-允许海外投资者抢购我们的集体财产，再回租给我们，然后我们不得不寄人篱下，而他们却从我们的需求中获利？这完全是不可理喻的。
任何一个明智的政府都应当立即对房地产所有权实行居住限制。

LiberalTory  ranelagh75 23m ago
Yet the useful idiots will keep voting Tory and the young who are most affected by this government's negative policies choose to not exercise their democratic right to vote.
We get the government we deserve, serves us right.

然而这些有用的白痴会继续投票给保守党，极易受政府消极政策影响的年轻人选择不行使民主权利投票。
拥有这样为我们服务的政府，真是自作自受。