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說(shuō)到“鬼子”，我們的第一反應(yīng)肯定是“這人不是中國(guó)人”。咱們國(guó)家的歷史上，曾經(jīng)有“日本鬼子”和“洋鬼子”這兩種最出名的叫法，而且在當(dāng)時(shí)是帶有貶義的。到了現(xiàn)代，隨著國(guó)際交流日益增多，生活和工作在我國(guó)的外國(guó)友人也越來(lái)越多，“洋鬼子”這個(gè)稱呼似乎也越發(fā)中性化了。由此還衍生出了不同類別的“鬼子”，也是頗有說(shuō)頭的。今天，咱們就說(shuō)說(shuō)“胡同鬼子”。
"Hutongsters" are China's version of London's yuppies in the 1980s. They're direct descendents of homo sapiens and a close cousin of trustafarians, a name given to rich kids who live off daddy's trust fund while smoking marijuana all day with little desire to work in the real world.
“胡同鬼子”是80年代倫敦雅皮士的中國(guó)版，是智人的進(jìn)化體，與“基金二代”也有親密的血緣關(guān)系。其實(shí)他們就是洋富二代，大多有個(gè)富爸爸，用不著工作，有信托基金養(yǎng)著，整天吞云吐霧抽大麻，不知工作為何物。
A true hutongster has normally spent a "summer" working for a small NGO saving wombats in Africa and now works in the media industry harboring delusions that their memoirs of being the first trendsetter to live in a hutong will be original.
一個(gè)地道的“胡同鬼子”通常利用夏天去一個(gè)小型國(guó)際非營(yíng)利組織工作，比如去非洲拯救袋熊，現(xiàn)在則從事媒體工作，在胡同里安家，崇拜著自己是多么敢于第一個(gè)吃螃蟹，意淫著他們將來(lái)的胡同生活回憶錄會(huì)多么引爆潮流。
For some reason they believe living in sub-standard, poorly built squalor, which was literally thrown together with bare hands quicker than you can say the words "building code", is somehow a more authentic China experience. Most of the current small alleyways that crisscross the city were built for China's grassroots and are mostly devoid of the basic sanitary essentials of a toilet or shower.
出于某種原因，對(duì)他們來(lái)說(shuō)，在胡同里那些簡(jiǎn)陋骯臟的危房里住一把才算沒(méi)白來(lái)中國(guó)一趟。 要知道，那些房子是以前給中國(guó)窮苦的草根階級(jí)建的，大部分連像廁所和淋浴這樣最起碼的衛(wèi)生條件都沒(méi)有。
This new breed of bourgeois often develops an identity crisis thumbing their nose to Sanlitun and the "foreigners" who fill the bars, clubs and restaurants. The irony here is their refusal to leave their kitschy neighborhood has led to a huge growth of Western-style bars, boutique stores and fancy European eateries opening in the hutong, turning them into pseudo-Sanlituns.
這幫新興資產(chǎn)階級(jí)們自命不凡，對(duì)三里屯的那些酒吧、夜店和餐廳嗤之以鼻，在他們眼里，去那些地方消費(fèi)的“同胞”們俗不可耐。然而，話雖這么說(shuō)，他們對(duì)這些俗地兒卻仍然依依不舍，于是他們時(shí)常自相矛盾產(chǎn)生認(rèn)知危機(jī)。也正因?yàn)槿绱?，各式西方酒吧、精品?gòu)物店以及高檔昂貴的歐式餐館紛紛瞄準(zhǔn)商機(jī)，趨之若鶩，把他們賴以生存的胡同逐個(gè)改造成三里屯的升級(jí)版。
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（英文作者：Lee Hannon，譯文來(lái)源：東西，編輯 Helen）
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