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街

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Bugis Street

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释义

名词

原位于维多利亚街（Victoria Street）与梧槽路（Rochor Road）交界处的一条街道。

DEFINITION

Noun

A street originally located at the intersection of Victoria Street and Rochor Road.

由来
  • 武吉士街是以武吉士人（Bugis）命名。
  • 武吉士人属于马来族的分支，自斯坦福·莱佛士爵士（Sir Stamford Raffles）登陆新加坡以来，便有约 500 名武吉士人在此经商。
  • 武吉士人主要聚居在甘榜武吉士（Kampong Bugis），即甘榜格南（Kampong Glam）和梧槽河（Rochor River）一带，而武吉士街就位于甘榜武吉内。
  • 1980 年代末，原本的武吉士街受到了市区重建计划（Urban Renewal Plan）的影响而被迫拆除。1990 年代中期，考虑到武吉士街所具有的特殊社会与文化意义，新加坡旅游促进局（Singapore Tourist Promotion Board）在原本的武吉士街对面另辟了一条步行街，恢复了武吉士街的原貌。这条步行街也被取名为武吉士街。
  • 1996 年落成的白沙浮商业城（Bugis Junction），有着新加坡最大的室内冷气购物步行街。商业城内的一共有四条步行街，其中之一便是武吉士街的原址。
  • 1950 年代的武吉士街为一条后巷，缺少路灯照明。因此，当地的广东人便俗称武吉士街为 hak kai，即 “黑街”。
ETYMOLOGY
  • Bugis Street was named after the Bugis people.
  • The Bugis are a subgroup of the Malay people. Since the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore, there have been approximately 500 Bugis people engaged in trade here.
  • The Bugis people mainly resided in Kampung Bugis, in the vicinity of Kampong Glam and Rochor River. Bugis Street was located within Kampung Bugis.
  • During the late 1980s, the original Bugis Street was demolished due to the implementation of the Urban Renewal Plan. In the mid-1990s, considering Bugis Street’s unique social and cultural significance, the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board decided to build a pedestrian street opposite the original Bugis Street, to restore the street’s former glory. Subsequently, the new pedestrian street was also named Bugis Street.
  • Bugis Junction, which has the largest indoor air-conditioned shopping street in Singapore, was built in 1996. There are a total of four shopping streets within the mall, with one of them built on Bugis Street’s original site.
  • As Bugis Street was a back alley in the 1950s, the place was poorly-lit. For this reason, the local Cantonese referred to Bugis Street colloquially as hak kai, which means “dark street”.
 
例句
防疫措施放宽后，武吉士街周末现人潮，但业者叹平日冷清营运不易，不仅缩短营业时间，还打折降价吸引顾客。（《新明日报》，11/4/2022）
SAMPLE SENTENCE
With the relaxation of COVID-19 measures, weekend crowds have returned to Bugis Street. However, business owners lament about scarce crowds on weekdays. Besides having to shorten their operating hours, they also had to provide discounts to attract customers. (Shin Min Daily News, 11/4/2022)
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