Tokyo
Tokyo is one of those places that you call love and hate at the same time.
In Tokyo there are always too many people in the places where I want to be. Of course there are too many cars. The Japanese drive very fast when they can, but in Tokyo they often spend a long time in traffic jams. Tokyo is not different from London, Paris and New York in that. It is different when one wants to walk.
At certain times of the day there are a lot of people on foot in London's Oxford Street. But the streets near the Ginza in Tokyo always have a lot of people on foot, and sometimes it is really difficult to walk. People are very politel there are just too many of theln.
The worst time to be in the street is at 11:30 at night. That is when the night clubs are closing and everybody wants to go home. There are 35,000 night clubs in Tokyo, and you do not often see one that is empty.
During the day, most people travel to and from work by train, Tokyo people buy six million train tickets every day. At most stations, trains arrive every two or three minutes, but at certain hours there do not seem to be enough trains. Although they are usually crowded, Japanese trains are very good. They always leave and arrive on time. On a London train you would see everybody reading a newspaper. In Tokyo trains everybody in a seat seems to be asleep, whether his journey is long or short.
In Tokyo, I stood outside the station for five minutes. Three fire engines raced past on the way to one of the many fires that Tokyo has every day. Tokyo has so many surprises that none of them can really surprse me now.
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此文從另一角度描述了東京。作者將自己對東京的喜惡，用比較與對比的手法及具體的資料和時間描繪出一幅十厘清晰的圖畫，使我們有身臨其境之感。
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東京
東京是那種讓你同時既愛又恨的地方之一。
在東京，我想去的地方總是有太多的人。當然也有太多的車。日本人隻要有可能，車就開得飛快，但在東京他們總是把大量的時間浪費在交通堵塞上。東京在這方面與倫敦、巴黎、紐約沒什麽不同，所不同的是在你想步行的時候。
白天有些時候倫敦牛津大街上也會有很多人在走路，但在東京Ginza(銀座)附近的街道上永遠都有許許多多的人在走，有時候讓人感到很難走出去。人們倒是非常有禮貌的，隻是人實在是太多了。
在街上行走最糟糕的時間是晚上十一點半。此時正是夜總會關門，人們紛紛回家的時間。東京有35 ooo家夜總會，而很少看到一家是空的。
白天，大部分人乘火車上班下班，東京人一天要買六百萬張火車票，大部分火車站每兩三分鍾就有一列火車駛進，但有時候火車還是顯得不夠多。盡管日本火車經常人特別多，但它們卻是非常出色，永遠都是起止準時，在倫敦火車上，你總會看到人們都在看報紙，而在東京火車上，不管是旅途長短，有座的人好像都在打瞌睡。
我在火車站外面站了五分鍾。三輛消防車疾馳而過奔向火災現場，而東京每天要發生許多火災。東京每天都有許許多多讓人驚奇的事情在發生，不過現在再也沒有什麽事可真讓我驚奇的了。