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Now fast-forward to May 1928. The American composer George Gershwin wrote the “blues” section of his orchestral poem An American in Paris while staying at the Hotel Majestic, 19 Avenue Kléber. He was influenced, he said, by the sound of cars honking as it they circumnavigated the Arc de Triomphe 200 metres away.
现在让时间快进到1928年5月，美国作曲家佐治‧盖希文写好了他的交响乐诗篇《一位美国人在巴黎》里的其中《蓝调》的章节，当时他住在克莱贝尔大道19号的宏伟酒店。他表示: 由于汽车围绕着凯旋门200米处行走，他受到鸣喇叭的声音所影响。
Fast-forward again to 27 January 1973. The peace agreement to end the Vietnam war was concluded by, inter alia, Henry Kissinger after four years of talks and mutual insults. The talks, insults and final signing took place in the French government's international conference centre, formerly the Hotel Majestic, 19 Avenue Kléber.
时间再快进至1973年1月27日，结束越战的和平协议在这里签署。在历时四年的谈判和相互侮辱之后，尤其是亨利‧基辛格，那些会谈、侮辱以及最终签订都在法国政府的国际会议中心举行，其前身即克莱贝尔大道19号的宏伟酒店。
An exterior shot of the Majestic Hotel
宏伟酒店外部拍摄图
The Majestic, one of several long-lost, mythical hotels in Paris, will be reborn next Friday, 1 August.
宏伟酒店， 几个久违了的在巴黎如神话般的酒店之一，即将于8月1日周五重生。
After more than 70 years in other guises, the Hotel Majestic will rise again as the Peninsula, one of a new generation of super-luxury hotels in the French capital.
在宏伟酒店在70多年之后以另一个面貌--半岛酒店的身份再次升起，这是一幢位于法国首都的新一代超级豪华酒店。
A partnership between the Qatari government and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Group has invested around EUR900m (￡711m) – half to buy the building from the French government and about the same again to restore the hotel to its original 1908 splendour. With 200 rooms and suites, including five with their own roof-top gardens, this makes the Peninsula Paris, room for room, the most costly hotel ever created.
一个由卡塔尔(国名，于阿拉伯半岛东部波斯湾沿岸)政府和香港上海大酒店集团组成的合作伙伴投资了约9亿欧罗(约相当于7.11亿英磅)，其中半数用于从法国政府手上买下这幢建筑物，另一半用于翻新酒店使其恢复到原来于1908年的辉煌。酒店客房和套房共有200间，其中包括五座自己的屋顶花园，这使得巴黎半岛酒店，这房中之房，成为有史以来最昂贵的酒店。
The new hotel – close to both the Arc de Triomphe and Eiffel Tower – has a breath-taking roof-top terrace and restaurant and an underground spa and swimming pool.
这全新的酒店， 其附近是凯旋门和艾菲尔铁塔，拥有令人叹为观止的屋顶露台和餐厅，还有一个地下温泉和游泳池。
