It doesn't help that today is a Sunday, so the usual bustle of hawkers, pedestrians and cars that enliven the empty drabness are missing.

虽然我们来的这天是星期天，可往常小贩的叫卖声，行人和汽车，这些让空寂的街道充满活力的嘈杂声，通通消失了。

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Standing at the Berlin Wall in 1987, helookedover to theeastand, struck by its drabness and emptiness, knew that thesystembehind it was evil.

1987年站在柏林墙边，里根凝视着东方，那个空洞而乏味的地方，他相信在这墙后是一个邪恶的世界。

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It is a cold, two-storey building of the uniform drabness that characterises the China of the toiling masses.

BBC: A Beijing state of mind

Standing at the Berlin Wall in 1987, he looked over to the east and, struck by its drabness and emptiness, knew that the system behind it was evil.

ECONOMIST: Ronald Reagan

The Hesses make jokes out of affectlessness and drabness the nowheresville prefab tackiness of the houses and the emptiness of a patch of country so remote that not even popular culture touches it.

NEWYORKER: Napoleon Dynamite