There’s almost no crime. Asmara is known as one of the safest cities in Africa.
这儿几乎没有犯罪,阿斯马拉是非洲最为安全的城市,许多人甚至懒得把他们的自行车上锁。
Another former prisoner, identified as Essay by the magazine, was detained at a prison in Asmara for 11 months.
另一位前囚犯,确定论文的杂志,被关押在监狱在阿斯马拉为11个月。
Asmara is located on a stony plateau, 7, 700 feet above sea level. It is essentially a city above the clouds.
阿斯马拉位于巖石构成的高原上,海拔7700英尺,可以说是一个在云端上的城市。
Asmara the architectural marvel is not so much the purposeful result of a hard-fought preservation battle. No.
阿斯马拉的建筑奇迹并不是文物保护主义者通过艰苦努力而有意保留下来的硕果,确实不是这么一回事。
What makes Asmara unique is that it is the one place where, briefly, modernism was granted untrammelled licence.
因为这是唯一的一个城市,在一个短暂的时期里,授予了现代主义无限的权力来改造这个城市。
Asmara became an Art Deco laboratory during the 1930s for designs that seemed, well, just too out there for mainland Italy.
阿斯马拉在三十年代成为艺术装饰风格的实验室,可能是因为那些设计在意大利本土太出位了。
Italian professionals and artisans flooded into Asmara and built shoe factories, laboratories, plazas, hotels, the railroad and even an alpine-style cable car.
意大利的专业人员和艺术家大量涌进阿斯马拉,建起了鞋厂、实验室、广场、旅馆、铁路,甚至还有阿尔卑斯风格的缆车。