1·S? O Paulo, while not lovely, has more shaded jacaranda lined avenues than you might expect.
圣保罗尽管不美,但两侧栽有蓝花楹的林荫大道比你能够想象到的还要多。
2·When I was a boy, my family left the rural misery of Brazil's North-East and set off for s? O Paulo.
当我是一个男孩的时候,我们家离开了巴西东北部的贫困农村,去了圣保罗。
3·Much of that destruction was to make way for cities like Salvador, Recife, Rio de Janeiro and S?o Paulo.
大部分的破坏是为了像里约热内卢和圣保罗这样的城市让路。
4·São Paulo is now ad-free. Many inhabitants of the metropolis of 11m think their city is prettier as a result.
圣保罗现在俨然是一个无广告的城市,结果,这个大都市1千1百万居民的多数都认为它们的城市变得漂亮了。
5·Most cases in Brazil are concentrated in Rio Grande do Sul, the state that borders both Uruguay and Argentina, and in Sã o Paulo.
巴西流感受感染的人员主要集中在与乌拉圭和阿根廷接壤的南里奥格兰德州和圣保罗市。
6·There are plenty of sceptics, not least in São Paulo, Brazil’s financial and industrial centre, where Rio is often dismissed as a party town.
有许多怀疑论者,尤其是在巴西金融和工业中心圣保罗,他们经常误认里约是一个派对城市。
7·Seven of the ten highest-scoring school districts in the state of São Paulo had a private education company, COC, to manage their classrooms.
在圣保罗州,十个高分学校地区中的七个拥有私立教育公司(COC),来管理他们的各个班级。
8·They also think that on environmental grounds ethanol should be lower-rated for value-added tax than diesel, as it is in s? O Paulo but not in other states.
他们也认为,基于环保因素,乙醇的增值税应该较柴油更低,如同在圣保罗州,但在其他州并非如此。
9·More than half the cars in Brazil now have flex-fuel engines, and that figure should rise to 90% by 2017, according to Marcos Jank of UNICA, the sugar-industry association in S?o Paulo.
目前巴西一半以上的汽车安装多重燃料引擎,而这个数字到了2017年应会上升至九成,根据圣保罗甘蔗业公会的UNICA的Marcos Jank表示。
10·Paulo: Good afternoon. It's two o 'clock now.
保罗:下午好!现在已经两点了。