文档介绍：The 45 Places to Go in 2012
By NEW YORK TIMES September 29, 2012
旅游
2012年应该去的45个地方
《纽约时报》报道 2012年09月29日
1. Panama
Go for the canal. Stay for everything else.
1. 巴拿马
去看运河,但其他的一切也都值得参观。
It’s been 12 years since Panama regained control of its canal, and the country’s economy is booming. Cranes stalk the skyline of the capital, Panama City, where high-rises sprout one after the next and immigrants arrive daily from around the world. Among those who have landed en masse in recent years are American expatriates and investors, who have banked on Panamanian real estate by building hotels and buying retirement homes. The passage of the United States-Panama free trade agreement in October is expected to accelerate this international exchange of people and dollars (the countries use the same currency).
巴拿马政府收回运河控制权已经12年了,如今这个国家的经济正在繁荣发展。首都巴拿城(Panama City)的天空下满是各种起重吊机,高楼大厦如雨后春笋般出现,来自世界各地的新移民每天涌入这里。近年来在这里集体落户的还有美国侨民和投资者,他们投资巴拿马的房地产业,建造酒店和养老院。人们预期,去年10月通过的美国与巴拿马自由贸易协定会加速这两国间人口和资金的流动(两国通行的是同一种货币)。
Among the notable development projects is the Panama Canal itself, which is in the early stages of a multibillion-dollar expansion. The project will widen and deepen the existing canal and add two locks, doubling the canal’s cargo capacity. For those who want to see the waterway as it was originally designed, now is the time. The expansion is expected to pleted by 2014, the canal’s 100-year anniversary.
而其中一个备受瞩目的发展项目就是巴拿马运河本身,一个耗资数十亿美元的扩建计划正在起步。此项目会将现在的运河扩宽和加深,并且加建两道水闸,让运河的载量翻倍。如果谁想去看看运河原始设计的航道水路,现在就应该去了。扩建计划预计将在2014年完成,那时也恰逢运河100周年纪念。
Justin Mott for The New York Times
柬埔寨,海鸥岛。
Other high-profile projects include the construction of three firsts: The Panamera, the first Waldorf Astoria hotel in Latin America (set to open in June 2012); the Trump Ocean Club, the region’s tallest building, which opened last summer; and Frank Gehry’s first Latin American design, the BioMuseo, a natural history museum scheduled to open in early 2013. Even Panama City’s famously dilapidated h