1. The hotel I stayed in in Nanjing in 1957 — a four-hundred-room hotel with tiled bathroom to every room — was completed in seventeen weeks, as I was assured by a British resident who had watched it.
    一九五七年我在南京住过的一家宾馆——四百间客房，每间都配有用瓷砖砌成的盥洗室——是在十七周内建成的。这是一位目睹此事的英国侨民告诉我的。