The hard-working society wants to kick back more, but faces constraints
kick back: (especially NAmE) to relax 放松
Kick back and enjoy the summer.
轻松愉快地享受这夏日的时光吧。 kick ass
NEAR BEIDAIHE, the seaside resort where China’s leaders gather for their summer conclave, sits Aranya, a gated complex known as “a middle-class utopia”.
gated: having gates to control the movement of traffic, people, or animals有门控制（车辆, 人流或动物的）进出的：
a gated road.
有路闸的公路。
a group of buildings of a similar type together in one place （类型相似的）建筑群
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a sports complex
综合体育场
an industrial complex (= a site with many factories)
工业建筑群
Visitors kite-surf, meditate and stroll down manicured streets where many have second homes. More than 4.6m tourists visited last year, up from 3.4m in 2024. They queue for the minimalist canteens, attend theatre, music and film festivals, and admire the brutalist library. The emergence in China of a bourgeoisie has not led to democracy, as many hoped. But it has fuelled a leisure industry catering to affluent, overworked people in search of personal fulfilment.
~ sthto increase sth; to make sth stronger 增加；加强；刺激 SYN stoke
to fuel speculation/rumours/fears
引起猜测／谣传／恐惧
Higher salaries helped to fuel inflation.
工资提高刺激通货膨胀。
“Aranya is so popular because it embodies the way people were meant to live,” says Gao Pei, a teacher from Beijing who bought a holiday home there this year.