香港超高密集居住环境：香港公民蜗居斗室（组图）

作者：沪江英语来源：沪江英语 2013-04-15 21:49

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scale

These mind-boggling images capture the scale of soaring apartment blocks in one of the world's most densely populated areas: Hong Kong.

香港是世界上人口最稠密的地区之一，这些令人难以置信的照片拍的就是香港街道上鳞次栉比的高层公寓楼。

overlook

As home to a population of more than seven million crammed into an area measuring just 424 square miles, space in Hong Kong is at a premium.It means that, when it comes to providing accommodation for Hong Kong's huge population, the only way to go is up.

在香港，700余万人口挤在仅424平方英里的土地上，空间对香港来说非常珍贵。这也就意味着，为了满足香港庞大的人口住宅需求，唯一的方法就是垂直向上盖高楼。

window

The result is the soaring high-rise buildings captured to incredible effect by German photographer Michael Wolf in his project Architecture of Density. The images reveal the densely packed apartments crammed into towering skyscrapers, with laundry spilling from barred windows and hanging over cramped balconies.

德国摄影师迈克尔·沃尔福在他的作品《建筑密度》中直现这些冲破天际的高层建筑，震撼人心。照片上显露着昂然耸立的摩天大楼里密密麻麻地布满了小公寓，衣服晾在窗栏或是狭窄的阳台上。

balcony

Earlier this year the Hong Kong-based Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) highlighted the plight of the city's most under-privileged people, increasing numbers of whom are being forced to live in almost inconceivably small spaces.

今年初，香港社区组织协会强调了生活在这座城市底层的人们的困境问题，这些被迫居住在几乎难以想象的斗室的群体数量正在增加。

laundry

In districts including Sham Shui Po, Yau Tsim Mong, and Kowloon City, families, elderly people and the unemployed are crammed into living quarters that are barely bigger than a toilet cubicle in some cases.

在像深水埗、油尖旺、九龙这些地方，家庭、老人和失业者挤在斗室里，有的居住空间只比卫生间大一点。

night life

The combination of Hong Kong's huge population and sky-high rents - around HKD$90 (£8) per square foot a month - has led to a housing shortage that is affecting hundreds of thousands of the city's poorest people, SoCo said.

香港社区组织协会补充说到，香港庞大的人口再加上天价租金——每月一平方英尺的租金约为90港币（8英镑），造成房屋短缺，影响数以万计的城市贫民们的生活。