【译文1145】三重挑战下，伦敦会衰落吗？（上）@韩冰彬|0204

原文The triple threat to London's city top spotBy Simon KuperOne of the things I miss most during the pandemic is London. About once a month in the old days, I'd go from waking up in Paris to having morning coffee with someone in Soho. London was an incomparable one-stop shop for ideas and information. On one of my last trips, I spent the morning at a tech conference at St Pancras, then walked across the Euston Road to attend an academic seminar on rhetoric. I'd return from the typical 36-hour London visit dizzy from everything I'd heard. But now the city faces a triple whammy of Covid-19, Brexit and the rise of English-language alternatives. Language was London's biggest advantage over its European rivals. The world's lingua franca acted as an equaliser, allowing Germans, Chinese, Americans, Pakistanis and the odd Brit to share friction-free coffees. A decade ago, there migh ………………………………