VOA慢速英语2021 乌克兰将苏联时期废旧厂房改造为绿色城市空间

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Entrepreneurs in western Ukraine are turning a large manufacturing building from Soviet¹ times into a center for education, business, and art. An entrepreneur is a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money.

乌克兰西部的创业者们正要将一座苏联时期的大型工业厂房改造为教育、商业和艺术中心。创业者是为了赚钱甘冒亏损风险的人士。

They hope this will drive development in a country that has problems with corruption², political insecurity, and a recession.

他们希望这将能推动这个存在腐败、政局不稳和经济衰退等问题的国家的发展。

The disused factory in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk once produced gas meters and other products. Now, it is a growing city space with a green micro farm, a space to show art, offices, and a children's education group.

位于伊万诺-弗兰科夫斯克市的这家废弃工厂曾经生产燃气表和其它产品。现在，它是一个成长中的城市空间，拥有一家绿色微型农场、一处艺术展示中心、办公室和一家儿童教育机构。

The creators of the ‘Promprylad.Renovation³' project named it after the factory. They bought the 36,000 square meter site in 2019. They have raised more than $8.5 million from local investors⁴ for the remodel⁵.

Promprylad翻修项目的创始人以该工厂的名字命名该项目。他们于2019年购买了这块面积达3.6万平方米的土地。他们从当地投资人那里筹集到了超过850万美元用于改造。

The project's co-founder is Chief Executive Officer Yuriy Fylyuk. He is 38 years old.

首席执行官Yuriy Fylyuk是该项目的联合创始人。他今年38岁。

"We are creating an innovation center which will include four main fields – education, art, new economy and urbanism. Why these fields? Because they drive development of any area, any society," he said.

他说：“我们正在创建一个创新中心，它将包括教育、艺术、新经济和城市化这四大领域。为什么是这些领域？因为它们可以推动任何地区和任何社会的发展。”

Forbes magazine named Ivano-Frankivsk the best city for doing business in Ukraine. It placed ahead of the capital of Kyiv and the city of Lviv. Ivano-Frankivsk is in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains.

《福布斯》杂志将伊万诺-弗兰科夫斯克市评为乌克兰的最佳商业城市。它的排名领先于首都基辅以及利沃夫市。伊万诺-弗兰科夫斯克市位于喀尔巴阡山脉脚下。

Corruption is part of life in Ukraine. Also, its economy has been hit hard by the pandemic, falling by four percent last year.

腐败是乌克兰生活的一部分。此外，其经济受到了大流行的严重打击，去年下降了4%。

Transparency International is a nonprofit organization that works to spread information about corruption and suggest policies to fight it. In its 2020 Corruption Perception Index, Transparency International gave Ukraine 33 out of 100 points where zero means "corruption effectively replaces the government."

透明国际是一家致力于传播腐败信息并提出打击腐败政策的非营利性组织。在其2020年腐败感知指数中，透明国际给乌克兰打了100分中的33分，其中零分意味着“腐败事实上取代了政府。”

The project only takes up a sixth of the 36,000 square meter area. It also houses the local government's department for investment policy.

该项目仅占到了这片3.6万平方米的区域中的六分之一。它还给当地政府的投资政策部门提供了办公场所。

"The atmosphere is different here. A place shapes a person's thoughts. And this particular place has had an impact on our thoughts and our ideas," said department head Igor Popadyuk.

部门负责人Igor Popadyuk表示：“这里的氛围不同。地方塑造了人的思想。这个特殊的地方对我们的思想和我们的想法产生了影响。”

Fylyuk said almost 900 private investors put money into the project. The only requirement for accepting their money is that it must come from legal sources.

Fylyuk表示，将近9百名私人投资者向该项目投入了资金。接受他们的资金的唯一要求是要求来源合法。

Its founders⁶ expect the project to be complete by the end of 2023. They plan to add an event space for 4,000 people, a bookstore and a peaceful place to think quietly. They will also add a library, which is a place that loans people books for free.

其创始人预计该项目将在2023年底前完成。他们计划增加一处可以容纳4千人的活动空间，一家书店和一处安静的冥思场所。他们还将增加一个免费借阅书籍的图书馆。