This summer, the duchy(公爵领地) of Cornwall got a new-look website with a bold statement of intent(意向声明；意图宣言) at the top: “We’re on a mission to become a world-leading impact(影响；影响力) organisation.”
今年夏天，康沃尔公爵领地推出了全新改版的网站，顶部醒目地写着：“我们的使命是成为世界领先的影响力组织。”
Updating the website will have been the easiest part of that mission. Upgrading hundreds of ageing, mostly rural, rented cottages, farmhouses and country houses will be one of the hardest.(升级数百套老旧乡村出租房将是最难的任务之一。)
更新网站或许是这项使命中最容易的部分。而升级数百套老旧的、大多位于乡村的出租小屋、农舍和乡间别墅，将是最艰巨的任务之一。
For many tenants, it will be long overdue(早该发生的；姗姗来迟). One, who is in failing health and struggling to heat a mostly uninsulated home where the only source of warmth is coal-fired stoves, said: “This place is not up to the standards of the 20th century, let alone the 21st. It’s archaic. It needs to be upgraded but I don’t think they want to spend the money.”(一位健康不佳的租户抱怨房屋原始、需要升级但王室不愿花钱。)
对许多租户来说，这早已是姗姗来迟。一位健康状况每况愈下、正费力为几乎无保温措施的房屋供暖的租户说，那里唯一的热源是燃煤炉子。“这个地方连20世纪的标准都达不到，更不用说21世纪了。这太原始了。它需要升级，但我认为他们不想花钱。”