What Disney’s city of the future, built to look like the past, says about the present

[1] OUTSIDE the white fence is all strip malls, motels and resort villages. Come off the six-lane highway at the spaghetti junction where Interstate 4 meets Highway 192, go past the ornamental water tower, and you are in Celebration, a town of the sort that America stopped building in the 1950s. Most of its 4,000 homes are small by suburban standards, jutting up against narrow streets. Children walk to school. The small downtown has no chains, apart from an obligatory Starbucks. Its 10,000-odd residents are mostly white, white-collar and Republican. In some ways it is a vision of America’s past. Yet Celebration is only 20 years old.

fence [fens]

n. 圍墻; 柵欄，籬笆; 防護(hù)物; 劍術(shù);

vt. 用籬笆圍住; 防護(hù); 練習(xí)劍術(shù);

vi. 練習(xí)擊劍; 搪塞; 圍以柵欄; 跳過柵欄;

[例句]Villagers say the fence would restrict public access to the hills.

村民們說這個圍欄將限制公眾進(jìn)入山區(qū)狞山。

strip [str?p]

vi. 剝光; 表演脫衣舞; 剝除;

vt. 除去雪标，剝?nèi)? 剝奪; 刪除; 清除，拆除;

n. 長條，條板; 帶狀地帶（或森林咬腋、湖面等）; （足球隊員的） 運動服;

[例句]The simplest rag-rugs are made with strips of fabric plaited together

最簡單的碎布地毯是由碎布條編在一起制成的仓手。

resort [r??z?:t]

vi. 求助于或訴諸某事物，采取某手段或方法應(yīng)急或作為對策;

n. 求助业踢，憑借咧党，訴諸; 熱鬧場所，娛樂場陨亡，度假勝地; 常去; 采用的辦法傍衡，求助[憑借]的對象;

[例句]His punishing work schedule had made him resort to drugs

異常緊張的工作安排使他開始吸毒。

spaghetti [sp??geti]

n. 意大利面條; [電] 漆布絕緣管;

[例句]Nicholas ate a dish of spaghetti.

尼古拉斯吃了一盤意大利面條负蠕。

interstate [??nt?ste?t]

adj. <美>洲際的;

n. 洲際公路;

[例句]We were driving along Interstate 280, toward my home in Woodside.

我們正駕車沿280號州際公路往我在伍德賽德的家行駛蛙埂。

ornamental [??:n??mentl]

adj. 裝飾的阿蝶，裝飾用的;

n. 觀賞植物; 裝飾物;

[例句]There was a highly ornamental, dark brown carved bench on a raised platform.

在高起來的講壇上靴拱，放著一張很精細(xì)的裂问，雕花的淡褐色案桌单雾。

jutting

v. 伸出; （使） 突出( jut的現(xiàn)在分詞 ); （從…） 突出; 高出;

[例句]He had clear blue eyes and a jutting chin.

他有一雙清澈的藍(lán)眼睛和凸出的下巴躬它。

長難句：

OUTSIDE the white fence is all strip malls, motels and resort villages.

這個句子不長顷牌，理解也不難沟优，但是其句式架構(gòu)比較值得學(xué)習(xí)岔擂，這就是傳說中的倒裝句赛不。OUTSIDE the white fence介詞短語是修飾語惩嘉，is是謂語動詞，主語是后面的all strip malls, motels and resort villages踢故，分析到這里的時候我們不禁就會發(fā)現(xiàn)這個句子是存在語法錯誤的文黎，因為主語是復(fù)數(shù)形式，所以謂語動詞應(yīng)該使用are殿较。

恢復(fù)正常語序All strip malls, motels and resort villages are OUTSIDE the white fence.是不是讀起來就很普通耸峭，無法彰顯出對語言拿捏的那種感覺了？

大意：遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)望著淋纲，白色的籬笆外劳闹，是繁華的購物中心，旅館，度假村本涕。

Come off the six-lane highway at the spaghetti junction where Interstate 4 meets Highway 192, go past the ornamental water tower, and you are in Celebration, a town of the sort that America stopped building in the 1950s.

這個句子有些長儡首，我們分析一下，首先spaghetti junction偏友，是什么蔬胯，spaghetti是意大利面哦，在這里呢就是指立交橋啦位他，無比形象氛濒。這句話的句子主干是啥，有的同學(xué)一看鹅髓，崩潰了舞竿。唯一一個看著像是句子主干就是：you are in Celebration。前面的算啥~首先看窿冯，前面是不是有一個and骗奖，and之前我們講過，并列的是平行結(jié)構(gòu)醒串，后面是個句子执桌，那前面一定也是句子。其實呢芜赌，前面是兩個祈使句仰挣，把這句話的架構(gòu)簡化一下呢，就是come off A, go pass B and you are in Celebration缠沈。定語從句和同位語都是起修飾以及補(bǔ)充說明的作用膘壶。

大意：駕車到洲際4號公路與192號交匯處的立交橋，沿著六車道高速路向前行進(jìn)洲愤，就來到了在20世紀(jì)50年代就停止建造的慶典小鎮(zhèn)颓芭。

[2] The town was developed by Disney as an antidote to the isolation of the suburbs. By the 1970s more Americans lived in suburbs than either in cities or in rural areas. Two decades later there were more cars than drivers in America. By the turn of the century, SUV-driving suburbanites became the majority, outnumbering rural and city folk combined. The wholesale shift to the suburbs, ever-longer commutes and the rise of shopping malls and big-box stores fractured community life, as downtowns emptied and commerce shifted to the edges of highways.

antidote [??ntid??t]

n. 解藥，解毒劑; 矯正方法柬赐，對抗手段;

[例句]When he returned, he noticed their sickness and prepared an antidote.

他回來后注意到了他們的病狀亡问，于是配制了解毒劑。

[3] Disney offered Celebration as an antidote to all this, selling the development on nostalgia for an old-timey America where, as its adverts read, “neighbours greeted neighbours in the quiet of summer twilight”. It would be built around five cornerstones: in addition to “a sense of place” and “a sense of community”, the small town, which was planned to grow to 20,000 residents, would also offer progressive education, world-class health facilities and cutting-edge technology. Michael Eisner, who ran Disney at the time, believed it would be a “community of tomorrow”.

nostalgia [n??st?ld??]

n. 懷舊; 鄉(xiāng)愁; 對往事的懷戀; 懷鄉(xiāng)病;

[例句]He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth

也許是對年輕時幸福時光的懷戀影響了他躺率。

House mouse

[4] Disney’s interest in town development started with its founder. In a filmed appearance on October 27th 1966, Walt Disney laid out his vision for the 27,400 acres of land he had secretly acquired in central Florida. It would include a theme park, an industrial park and an airport. At its heart would be an “experimental prototype community of tomorrow”, or EPCOT. This community would have 20,000 residents, a central business district and futuristic public transport. Cars and lorries would be hidden away underground. It was planned as a showcase of modern technology and “the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise”. Two months later Disney died of lung cancer. The plan was shelved.

acres ['e?k?s]

n. 英畝( acre的名詞復(fù)數(shù) );

[例句]He had nearly a thousand acres of grazing and arable land.

他有將近1,000公頃的草場和耕地玛界。

futuristic [?fju:t???r?st?k]

adj. 未來的; 未來主義的; 未來派的;

[例句]The theatre is a futuristic steel and glass structure.

這家劇院是鋼筋和玻璃結(jié)構(gòu)的未來派建筑万矾。

lorries ['l?r?z]

n. 運貨汽車悼吱，卡車( lorry的名詞復(fù)數(shù) );

[例句]Tractors and container lorries have completely obstructed the road.

拖拉機(jī)和集裝箱貨車已經(jīng)將這條路完全堵死了。

Ingenuity [??nd???nju:?ti]

n. 獨創(chuàng)性; 足智多謀良狈，心靈手巧; 獨出心裁后添，設(shè)計新穎; 巧妙，精巧;

[例句]Inspecting the nest may require some ingenuity.

探查鳥巢是需要些技巧的薪丁。

[5] In 1971 Walt Disney World opened on the land. By 1985 it was home to two theme parks with a third under construction (a fourth was added later), hundreds of hotel rooms and plenty of land to spare. But changes in Florida’s environmental laws had Disney executives worried that the state would reclaim some of their property unless it was put to use. The contentious land was an alligator-infested swamp, cut off from Disney World by a highway and unsuitable for another theme park. It seemed a shame to waste it. Executives approached Mr Eisner, who was keen on urban planning, with the idea of building a town. He agreed—but only once he was convinced that it would not be yet another suburban tract of homes attached to a golf course, with the Disney logo slapped on it.

reclaim [r??kle?m]

vt. 取回; 開拓遇西，開墾; 感化; 沙化;

n. 改造馅精，感化; 教化; 回收再利用; 收回，取回;

[例句]In 1986, they got the right to reclaim South African citizenship

1986年粱檀，他們?nèi)〉昧嘶謴?fù)南非公民身份的權(quán)利洲敢。

contentious [k?n?ten??s]

adj. 引起爭論的，有爭論的; 愛爭論的; 愛議論的; 矯情;

[例句]Sanctions are expected to be among the most contentious issues.

制裁可能會是爭議最大的問題之一茄蚯。

alligator [??l?ge?t?(r)]

n. 短吻鱷; 短吻鱷皮革; 鱷口式工具;

[例句]He was grappling with an alligator in a lagoon

他正在環(huán)礁湖里與一只短吻鱷搏斗压彭。

infested

adj. 為患的，大批滋生的（常與with搭配）;

v. 害蟲渗常、野獸大批出沒于( infest的過去式和過去分詞 ); 遍布于;

[例句]The town used to be infested with bandits in the old days.

這個鎮(zhèn)從前常遭到匪幫的騷擾壮不。

swamp [sw?mp]

n. 濕地; 沼澤（地）;

vt. 淹沒; 使沉沒; 使陷入困難; 忙得不可開交;

vi. 淹沒，沉沒;

[例句]A rogue wave swamped the boat

兇猛的海浪淹沒了船只皱碘。

tract [tr?kt]

n. 大片土地; （神經(jīng)纖維的） 束; 小冊子; <古>一段時間询一，長時間;

[例句]A vast tract of land is ready for development

一大片廣闊的土地可待開發(fā)。

長難句：

changes in Florida’s environmental laws had Disney executives worried that the state would reclaim some of their property unless it was put to use.

提取句子的主干：changes had Disney executives worried sth癌椿。什么改變健蕊，in Florida’s environmental laws修飾changes，弗羅里達(dá)州環(huán)境法規(guī)的變化踢俄，迪士尼高層擔(dān)心什么绊诲，that從句中的內(nèi)容吧，that the state would reclaim some of their property unless it was put to use土地如果不投入使用褪贵，州政府可能會收回掂之。

大意：弗羅里達(dá)州環(huán)境法規(guī)的變化讓迪士尼高層擔(dān)心如果土地不投入使用，州政府可能會收回脆丁。

[6] Around the time that Disney started working on its town-building project, a movement called new urbanism was taking off. Its big success came with the development of Seaside, Florida, a picturesque resort village which many years later became the setting for “The Truman Show”, a dystopian film set in a perfect town. New urbanism advocated building on a human scale, planning for walking and mixing residential and commercial zoning. Celebration’s developers set out to adapt that ethos to their town. Though brand new, the town would look like a charming mid-Atlantic city, such as Savannah, Georgia or Charleston, South Carolina.

picturesque [?p?kt???resk]

adj. 別致的; 美麗的; 生動的; 奇特的世舰，獨創(chuàng)的;

[例句]Alte, in the hills northwest of Loule, is the Algarve's most picturesque village.

位于洛萊西北部山區(qū)的阿爾特，是阿爾加維風(fēng)景最美麗的村莊槽卫。

dystopian [d?s't?pi?n]

adj. 反面烏托邦的跟压，反面假想國的;

n. 反面烏托邦的鼓吹者（或描寫者）;

[例句]You can find classic examples of dystopian fiction in comics, short stories, novels, cartoons and movies.

在漫畫，長短篇小說歼培，卡通動畫以及電影中震蒋，你都可以找到反烏托邦式小說的典型代表。

ethos [?i:θ?s]

n. 氣質(zhì); 民族精神; 社會思潮;

[例句]The whole ethos of the hotel is effortless service.

該酒店的全部理念就是提供輕松的服務(wù)躲庄。

savannah [s?'v?n?]

n. （熱帶和亞熱帶） 無樹大草原;

[例句]I picked up the phone and dialed my parents 'home in Savannah.

我拿起電話查剖，撥通了薩凡納市我父母的家。

[7] Judged as an investment, Celebration was a blockbuster. Demand for the first set of lots was so high that Disney had to hold a lottery. Prices started at $120,000 for the smallest homes and at $300,000 for bigger ones; the median house price in the surrounding area was $80,000. Disney invested $100m in the project but it had bought the land for next to nothing. Construction was left to contractors, and money for roads and lighting came from municipal bonds that were paid back by residents.

blockbuster [?bl?kb?st?(r)]

n. 大片; 重磅炸彈噪窘，了不起的人或事; 風(fēng)靡一時的事物;

[例句]There is no point reviewing a blockbuster as you might review a serious novel.

為一部大片寫影評時笋庄，沒必要像為一部嚴(yán)肅小說寫書評那樣認(rèn)真謹(jǐn)慎。

[8] Judged as an attempt to recreate a quasi-mythical past, things did not go so smoothly. Part of Celebration’s appeal was that it would offer a public school with a private education. “What was promised was a revolution in education,” says Lawrence Haber, whose family was the first to move into Celebration, on June 18th 1996. Disney gathered experts from Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities, among others, to design the curriculum. There would be no grades. Classes would be mixed, with children of different age groups studying together. It proved a disaster. Kids slacked off. Without test scores, parents were unable to track their children’s progress. Arguments and fist-fights broke out between parents. The school eventually separated into two more conventional public schools. Mr Haber says he might not have moved to Celebration were it not for the school. Many early settlers felt the same way. Some left.

quasi ['kwe?sa?]

adj. 類似的，準(zhǔn)的;

[例句]The two basic formulas of electron quasi motion are given.

給出了電子準(zhǔn)經(jīng)典運動的兩個基本關(guān)系式直砂。

slacked

v. 放松; 偷懶( slack的過去式和過去分詞 ); 減速;

[例句]The offensive has slacked off.

攻勢已經(jīng)衰弱菌仁。

Town Cat

[9] The promises of high technology fared little better. The original vision involved fibre-optic cables to every home. It never happened. Neither did elaborate plans that resembled an ambitious early Netflix or those for community services online. A scheme in which residents got free computers in exchange for allowing their browsing activities to be tracked fizzled out once AT&T, Disney’s corporate partner for technology in the town, realised it had no use for the data, write Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins in “Celebration, USA”, an account of their first year living in the town in the late 1990s. Only the health centre was an unequivocal hit. The hospital, run as a non-profit by the Seventh-Day Adventist church, feels like a resort hotel. It includes a gym and a spa.

fare [fe?(r)]

n. 票價; 費; 食物; 乘客;

vi. 吃; 進(jìn)食; 進(jìn)展; 遭遇;

[例句]He could barely afford the railway fare.

他幾乎買不起火車票。

fibreoptic [fa?b'?i:pt?k]

[詞典] [醫(yī)] 光導(dǎo)纖維的静暂，纖維光學(xué);

[例句]The use of ultrasonic aerosol spraying anesthesia in fibreoptic bronchoscopy

超聲霧化麻醉法在纖維支氣管鏡中的應(yīng)用

fizzled

v. 發(fā)嘶嘶聲济丘，失敗( fizzle的過去式和過去分詞 );

[例句]Our relationship fizzled into nothing.

我們的關(guān)系無果而終了。

unequivocal [??n??kw?v?kl]

adj. 明確的; 毫不含糊; 不含糊的;

[例句]Yesterday, the message to him was unequivocal: 'Get out.'

昨天洽蛀，給他的信息很明確：“滾開闪盔。”

長難句：

A scheme in which residents got free computers in exchange for allowing their browsing activities to be tracked fizzled out once AT&T, Disney’s corporate partner for technology in the town, realised it had no use for the data, write Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins in “Celebration, USA”, an account of their first year living in the town in the late 1990s.

看這句辱士，hin長泪掀，hin嚇人~我們還是和之前一樣，首先剝離出句子的主干~主干暴簡單颂碘，A scheme fizzled out异赫。陰謀失敗了，接下里你需要搞清楚的就是什么陰謀头岔，為什么會失敗塔拳。首先是什么陰謀呢，后面的定語從句in which residents got free computers in exchange for allowing their browsing activities to be tracked指出居民用自己的瀏覽記錄交換免費網(wǎng)絡(luò)的使用權(quán)峡竣，為什么會失敗呢靠抑，once AT&T realized sth，一旦美國電話電報（類似天朝聯(lián)通）意識到那些瀏覽記錄并沒有什么鬼用适掰，這前面的言論是誰說的颂碧，是曾經(jīng)在慶典小鎮(zhèn)居住過的DF和CC，記錄在自己的賬戶（類似大天朝的博客）中的类浪。

大意：曾經(jīng)在慶典小鎮(zhèn)居住過的DF和CC载城，在自己的賬戶（類似大天朝的博客）中記錄說：一旦美國電話電報（類似天朝聯(lián)通）意識到那些瀏覽記錄并沒有什么鬼用

，居民用自己的瀏覽記錄交換免費網(wǎng)絡(luò)的使用權(quán)的陰謀就失敗了费就。

[10] Some of the early shortcomings could be put down to teething troubles. But at Celebration’s core was nostalgia, making the last two cornerstones, “sense of place” and “sense of community”, the most important. Celebration certainly feels different from the rest of American suburbia. Disney invested in building the downtown area so it would be open the day the first families moved in. It commissioned famous architects to build the town hall, the post office, the cinema and other communal buildings. It invited doctors to live in the town so there would be, for example, an optometrist. It located the town centre, quaintly, in the centre of town even though putting it by the highway would have made more economic sense.

teething 英['ti:e??]

n. 出牙诉瓦，出牙期;

v. 出牙，生乳牙( teethe的現(xiàn)在分詞 );

[例句]Emma broke off a bit of rusk and gave it to Jacinta, who was teething

傲ο福瑪掰了一塊脆餅干給正在出牙的賈辛塔睬澡。

optometrist[?p?t?m?tr?st]

n. 驗光師，視力測定者;

[例句]So he decides to go into town to see if he can find an optometrist.

于是眠蚂，他決定進(jìn)入鎮(zhèn)看到煞聪，如果他能找到一個驗光師。

[11] Yet the cinema, a towering faux-art-deco edifice designed by César Pelli has been closed for several years. Locals complained that the downtown lacked basic necessities such as a hardware store or a hairdresser. The small town-centre grocery store shut too, replaced by a big-box supermarket by the highway. The downtown area, which was sold by Disney in 2004, is in poor repair. One block of flats is being entirely renovated, another is held up by wooden support columns, a third is covered with tarpaulin to prevent leaks. Residents of the downtown condominiums complain that they face huge extra fees for repairs despite having paid for maintenance. A lawsuit is in the works.

faux [f??]

adj. 人造的; <法>假的; 偽的; 人工的;

[例句]It was not long before I realised the enormity of my faux pas.

沒過多久河狐，我就意識到自己有多么失態(tài)米绕。

deco [?dek?u]

n. 裝飾瑟捣，裝飾品;

[例句]Art Deco designers embraced machinery and power.

裝飾藝術(shù)的設(shè)計者們接受了機(jī)械和動力帶來的靈感馋艺。

edifice [?ed?f?s]

n. 大建筑物; 知識的結(jié)構(gòu);

[例句]The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.

美國領(lǐng)事館是位于波爾多市中心的一座宏偉的大廈栅干。

tarpaulin [tɑ:?p?:l?n]

n. 防水帆布，防水帆布罩;

[例句]When it rained I rigged up a partial shelter with a tarpaulin

下雨的時候捐祠，我用油布草草搭了一個能簡單避雨的棚子碱鳞。

Condominium [?k?nd??m?ni?m]

n. 公寓; 一套公寓住房; 公寓的單元;

[例句]They bought a condominium in new jersey.

他們在新澤西買了間公寓。

[12] To the extent that Celebration can boast of a sense of place, it is opposition to Osceola county, of which it forms a part, where median incomes are about half as big. Celebration voted for Donald Trump; both the district and county it is in voted Democrat. Celebration is cute and orderly; the surrounding areas are covered in strip malls and fast-food chains. The median house price in Celebration is $345,700, more than twice that of the nearest town and far higher than any other settlement in the county, according to Zillow, a real-estate company.

median [?mi:di?n]

adj. 中間的; 中央的; [數(shù)] 中值的;

n. 中位數(shù); 中線; [數(shù)] 中值;

[例句]This is our learning digital image processing, the field average and median filtering the code.

這是我們在學(xué)習(xí)數(shù)字圖像處理過程中踱蛀，對領(lǐng)域平均法和中值濾波的程序代碼窿给。

長難句：

To the extent that Celebration can boast of a sense of place, it is opposition to Osceola county, of which it forms a part, where median incomes are about half as big.

句子的主干是，中間的那個短句率拒，it is opposition to Osceola county崩泡，前面是介詞短語修飾，后面是兩個非限定從修飾Osceola county猬膨。這句話也不難理解角撞，大家如果知道Celebration是Osceola county的一部分的話

大意：慶典小鎮(zhèn)吹噓其社區(qū)歸屬感，但事實上勃痴，作為Osceola county的一部分谒所，小鎮(zhèn)的中位數(shù)收入是O城的兩倍，如何來的歸屬感沛申。O城的居民表示劣领，不和你們一起玩。

[13] The disparity has tugged away at the communal ethos Disney hoped to foster. Old-timers talk up shared experiences, the town foundation that helps out the poor, the many community groups. Newer residents are less enthused. Many parents send their children to private schools elsewhere, blaming an influx of kids from outside Celebration. A quarter of pupils at Celebration School and two-thirds at Celebration High School qualify for free or subsidised lunches, a proxy for poverty. Many of them come from the nearby Highway 192, where motels have turned into rent-by-the-week homes for transient minimum-wage workers.

n. 懸殊; 不同; 不等; 不一致;

[例句]The increasing income distribution disparity between residents is a striking problem in china's current economic development.

摘要居民之間收入分配差距的不斷擴(kuò)大铁材，是當(dāng)前我國經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展中的突出問題尖淘。

tug [t?g]

vt. 用力拉，使勁拉; 使勁著觉，掙扎; [航海] 用拖船拖曳; 競爭;

n. 猛拉德澈，推力; 繩索鏈條; [航海] 拖船; 競爭，斗爭;

[例句]A little boy came running up and tugged at his sleeve excitedly

一個小男孩跑上來固惯，非常激動地拽著他的袖子梆造。

communal [k??mju:nl]

adj. 公用; 公共的; 公社的; 公民的;

[例句]Communal violence broke out in different parts of the country.

在該國不同的地區(qū)發(fā)生了群體暴力事件。

influx [??nfl?ks]

n. 流入葬毫，注入; 匯集〔指人或物〕镇辉，充斥; 注入口，河口;

[例句]The country simply cannot absorb this influx of refugees.

這個國家實在不能接納這么多涌入的難民贴捡。

[14] The well-intentioned hope to recreate some version of America’s past has been defeated by the country’s present. The parks, pools and playgrounds in Celebration belong to the residents’ association and are off-limits to non-residents. Sitting on a park bench is considered trespassing. Residents complain about tourists peeking over their fences or the thousands of children from neighbouring areas who descend on them at Halloween. Celebration was founded by Disney on the principle of openness—the school and utilities are public, and the county sheriff’s office provides police patrols. Yet it has become a gated community, just without the gates.

trespassing

n. [法] 非法入侵;

[例句]You're trespassing!

你這是非法侵入忽肛！

In Disneyworld

[15] Yet for all its failings, Celebration has changed America. It provided a prototype for mixed-use development that encouraged more permissive zoning laws, says Robert Steuteville of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Baldwin Park, a successful residential development with a commercial heart, in nearby Orlando, was a refinement of the idea. Celebration demonstrated that suburban cities could market themselves to house-buyers by evoking urbanity. These days almost all suburban developers talk about “place-making” and “urban-style” living, and fostering a sense of community. Celebration got them talking that way.

refinement [r??fa?nm?nt]

n. 精煉，提純烂斋，凈化; 改良品; 細(xì)微的改良屹逛，極致; 優(yōu)雅础废，高貴的動作;

[例句]Older cars inevitably lack the latest safety refinements.

老款的汽車難免缺少經(jīng)過改進(jìn)的最新安全保護(hù)裝置。

[16] A big part of Celebration’s success came from its association with Disney. “People had an impression that if they moved their kids to a Disney town, their lawns would never get any weeds and their children would never get anything but ‘A’s,” says Peter Rummell, who led the development for Disney. Mike Harford, until November’s election the county commissioner for the district that includes Celebration, grew up in Osceola county when “there was nothing but cows.” “If it had stayed that way, I would have had to go somewhere else,” he says. In the land of fresh starts, nostalgia can be the most effective marketing pitch for a new future, in property development as in politics.

lawns['l?:nz]

n. 草地罕模，草坪( lawn的名詞復(fù)數(shù) ); 上等細(xì)棉布（或麻布）;

[例句]They had landscaped their property with trees, shrubs, and lawns.

他們用樹木评腺、灌木叢和草坪將房產(chǎn)裝點了一番。