重返北京 碰上几大'谜’

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凯瑞, 记者来鸿：重返北京 碰上几大'谜.' BBC Chinese, Apr 28, 2014
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/fooc ... _back_beijing.shtml

, which is NOT translated from

Carrie Gracie, Welcome (Back) to Beijing. BBC, Apr 17, 2014.
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-27051731

Note:
(a) Carrie Gracie
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Gracie
(1962- ; Scottish; Spouse: Jin (separated))
(i) Carrie
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie
(may refer to Carrie (name), a female given name in English speaking countries, usually a pet form of Caroline or Carolyn)
(ii) The Scottish surname Gracie is a variant of Grass. The latter is “reduced from Gaelic greusaiche ‘shoemaker.’”

(b) “Beijing was once luxury foreign brands only, but high street names like Zara and H&M now seem omnipresent.”
(i) high street (n):
“British  The main street of a town, especially as the traditional site for most stores, banks, and other businesses.
[AS MODIFIER] (Of retail goods) catering to the needs of the ordinary public <high-street fashion>”
www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/de ... english/high-street
(ii) “High Street is the most common street name in the UK, which according to a 2009 statistical compilation has 5,410 High Streets, 3,811 Station Roads and 2,702 Main Streets.”  Wikipedia

(c) “Ballroom dancing in the park every evening. Hurrah! And plangent arias from Chinese opera.“
(i) plangent (adj): "having a loud reverberating sound"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plangent
(ii) aria (n): "a piece of music sung by one person in an opera"  
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/aria