纽约像其他大城市一样，有它自己难以形容的气氛。2001年9月11日发生的恐怖分子劫持客机撞向世贸中心大厦的事件，非但没有冲淡这种气氛，反而使本来已经很受关注的这个城市引来更多的目光，同时也给了“纽约人”一个真正全球化的定义。
Like all great cities, New York has an indefinable aura all its own. Rather than diminish that aura, the events of September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed jetliners into the World Trade Center towers, only intensified the spotlight already trained on the city and gave the term “New Yorker” a truly global definition.
(Source: wwenglish.com)