Name: Welcome to The City of London
Uploaded: 2018-05-07T08:32:35.000Z
Duration: 3 min 18 s

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In the very centre there's a one square mile cut out

在最中間有一個一平方英里的切口。

This is The City of London which lives in a city named London

這是倫敦市，它住在一個叫倫敦的城市裡。

The City has its own mayor, laws, and police force. In fact it behaves more like a separate

該市有自己的市長、法律和警察部隊。事實上，它的行為更像是一個獨立的城市。

This is because The City's been around for much longer than than the UK

這是因為 "城市 "存在的時間比英國長得多。

And has remained semi-autonomous even since

並一直保持著半自主性，甚至自

To embody its fiery independence, the city's emblem is a dragon… not a bad choice

為了體現其火熱的獨立性，這個城市的標誌是一條龍......不失為一個好選擇

You'll spot these statues - they guard the boundary of the Square Mile

你會發現這些雕像--它們守衛著一平方英里的邊界。

Nowadays The City is arguably the financial capital of the world

如今的曼城可以說是世界金融之都。

And London is the world's biggest foreign exchange market

而倫敦是全球最大的外匯市場。

But The City has a tiny residential population

Every weekday workers flood into the banks, law firms and offices which fill the Square Mile

每個工作日，工人們都會湧入銀行、律師事務所和辦公室，這些地方充斥著一平方英里。

但也不全是工作。現在是下午一點

You might say no surprise here, City work's having a drink, but attitudes are changing

你可能會說，這裡不奇怪，城市工作的喝了酒，但態度卻在改變。

The legendary long lunch at the pub is now seen as a bit of a macho relic

傳說中的酒館長餐，現在被視為有點大男子主義的遺蹟。

In 2017 Lloyd's of London, the legendary insurance market, told it's employees the party was over

2017年，傳說中的保險市場倫敦勞合社告訴它的員工，聚會結束了

But, as you can see, not everyone got the memo

但是，正如你所看到的，並不是每個人都得到了備忘錄。

Because here's the rub of it, The City had a reputation… when the after work crowd

因為這就是問題的關鍵所在 城市的名聲... 當下班後的人群...

But that is changing and leading are some high flying dining spots

但這種情況正在發生變化，引領的是一些高大上的餐飲場所。

Sitting on top the Heron Tower is the duck and waffle

坐在賀龍塔頂上的是鴨子和華夫餅。

it offers 24/7 service with a hell of a view

它提供24/7的服務與一個地獄的觀點。

This is about as refined as a 24 hour waffle house gets

這就是24小時華夫餅屋的精緻之處

But the most talked about new guest, who's reinventing The City's reputation, is call The Ned

但最受關注的新嘉賓，他重塑了《城市》的聲譽，他叫斯內德。

Over 500 million pounds has been spent turning this old bank into a private members club

花費了超過5億英鎊將這家老銀行變成了私人會員俱樂部。

With 8 restaurants in the lobby and a bar that stay open till 4am - The Ned has injected

大廳裡有8間餐廳，還有一間營業到凌晨4點的酒吧--The Ned為這裡注入了新的活力。

This is after all the oldest part of London. And following an injection of fun and flavour

這裡畢竟是倫敦最古老的地方。而在注入了樂趣和味道之後

it's throwing down a challenge to the rest of the city and shaking

這是向全市其他地區提出的挑戰，也是在撼動

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