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洛维尔,一度注定要衰败的古老的纺织城,已变成了一个繁荣昌盛的电子工业中心。美国各地,其他被遗弃的工业城市,也正在被改造成高级技术的过热点。难忘的记忆,崭新的希望在保罗·冲加斯还是马萨诸塞州洛维尔城的高中生时,他就为父亲的洗衣店开送货卡车。他几乎每天都要驾车经过梅里马克河的瀑布,经过衰败的运河,经过崩溃的纺织厂。在他四周,满是一世纪前逝去时光幽灵般的、勾起人们对往事回忆的事物。当年,洛维尔曾是美国最大的制造业中心;眼下,这个城市仅在持续萧条中苟延残喘。
Lowell, an ancient textile city that was once doomed to decline, has become a thriving center of electronics industry. Other abandoned industrial cities across the United States are being transformed into hot spots for advanced technology. Unforgettable Memory, New Hope When Paul Chonggas was a high school student in Lowell, Massachusetts, he opened a delivery truck for his father’s laundromat. Almost every day he drove through the waterfalls of the Merrimack River, the collapsed canal, the collapsed mill. Around him, it was a ghostly passage of time a century ago that brought back memories of past events. That year, Lowell used to be the largest manufacturing center in the United States; for now, the city linger only in a sustained depression.