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。

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。