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Børsen -The Most Beautiful Stock Exchange in the World
During my last year in Denmark, I lived paa Amager, in the Amager district in Copenhagen. It took me an hour and a half each way; 40 minutes by bus and 50 minutes by train, a total of three hours each day to and from school. If not to save money, nobody wanted to bear this trouble going to school. Of course the purpose of me living there was to save money.Every day after school I had to walk 15 minutes from campus to TreKroner station , “the Three Krones”station, then take the train for 50 minutes from Three Krones to Copenhagen. The trip didn’t cost “three krones”, as my classmates joked. The last part of the trip was the additional 40 minute bus trip home.
The bus route passed by the Copenhagen central station, the Christianshavn Canal, and Børsen, the Danish Stock Exchange, had a bus stop on this side of canal.
As one of the three oldest buildings in Copenhagen, Børsen began to be built in 1619, and was completed in 1625. The Scandinavian winter means endless darkness. Daylight withdraws as early as three or four in the afternoon. I had seen how and Børsen looked like when all the streets lights were on. In winter, I had seen it buried under white snow, as beautiful as Plum Blossoms held by Bao Qin, standing high up hill; it was so beautiful that even Chou Shi Zhou’s paintings could not capture her beauty. Aye! It has been more than ten years since I saw the snow the last time.
I had lived in Amager for about year. I must have passed by Børsen at least a hundred times. But even a hundred times did not provide enough time to appreciate its beauty. As all truly beautiful things in life, it can endure close examinations, appreciations, reflections, and time. All and only truly beautiful things are like this.
Cultural Notes:
1). Trekroner means “three krones” in Danish. When I lived in Denmark three krones were equivalent to 50 cents. It cost around 40 krones at time. So we all joked to each other that going to Trekroner does not cost Trekroner.
2). Bao Qin: One of the 12 heroines in A Dream of Red Mansions, the generally regarded best Chinese novel in history, known for her beauty and sweetness.
3). Chou Shi Zhou: A famous Ming dynasty Chinese painter who was famous for painting beautiful women. There is one line in A Dream of Red Mansions that Bao Qin was so beautiful that even Chou Shi Zhou couldn’t capture her beauty.
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| 在丹麦的最后一年，我住在哥本哈根市的Amager区。每天上下学单程要一个半小时。Bus 40分钟，火车50分钟。
放学先坐火车到中心火车站。再从中心火车站坐汽车回家。路程是从火车站，跨过大运河，穿过Christiansborg Palace 皇宫，再穿过皇家图书馆(Det Kongelige Bibliotek) , 而Børsen ---丹麦证券交易所((The Stock Exchange in Copenhagen)，就在运河的这边有一站
每天放学上下车的这一两分钟的时间里，疲倦的我都是如醉如痴地欣赏这座无比美丽的建筑
Børsen起建于1619年，完成于1625年，是哥本哈根最老的三个建筑之一。冬天的时候北欧是漫无边际的黑暗。下午三四点天就黑了。我见过它在华灯初上时的样子。冬天的时候它埋在美丽的白雪下面，仿佛抱梅的宝琴，是连仇十洲的画也赶不上的
呀!
我在Amager住了一年，那么我一定是从Børsen跟前经过至少上百次了。然而那种无法形容的美，即使看了百次也是看不够的。
世上所有真正美的东西都是如此，经得起时间，岁月，推敲和反味.
也只有真正美的东西才能如此。
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