Five years ago I was sent by the Shanghai Foreign Language Institute to study for my doctorate at Moscow University. At that time the Russian economy was still not bad. The markets had every kind of fruit and vegetable and you could still buy beer.
我在五年前由上海外語學院派來莫大俄語系讀博士學位，當時的蘇聯經濟還不錯，市場上各式果蔬都有，還可買到啤酒，現在什麼都沒有了。