研究表明，香港重新名列前茅，成為世界上外國人居住最貴的城市。
The city of skyscrapers had dropped to second place last year behind Luanda, the capital of Angola.
去年，高樓林立的香港排名還落后于安哥拉首都羅安達。
But it now heads the Asia-dominated list again, according to the 24th annual cost of living survey carried out by advisory firm Mercer.
但根據美世咨詢公司進行的第24次年度生活成本調查，香港現在再次成為以亞洲為主的該名單之首。
The survey covers costs ranging from housing and clothes to bread and beer.
該調查涵蓋住房，衣服，面包和啤酒等各種費用。
It examines the cost of 200 items in each location, including accommodation, transport, clothes, food and entertainment, comparing prices such as a cinema ticket, a pair of jeans, a litre of water, a cup of coffee, a litre of petrol and a litre of milk.
它調查了每個地方的200件物品的成本，包括住宿，交通，衣服，食物和娛樂，比較了電影票，牛仔褲，一升水，一杯咖啡，一公升汽油，一升牛奶等物品的價格。
Mercer defines expatriates, also called assignees, as employees of an organisation who are assigned to work in a different country than her or his original country of employment for a definite period of time.
美世將外籍人士(也稱為受派人)定義為一個組織的雇員，該組織的雇員在一段時間內被分配到與她或他原先國家不同的國家工作。
In this year’s rankings, Tokyo is the second most expensive city followed by Zurich and Singapore, with Seoul in fifth. This means that four out of five of the world’s most expensive cities for expatriates are now in Asia, according to the survey.
在今年的排名中，東京排名第二，蘇黎世和新加坡隨后，漢城排第五。這意味著全球五個最昂貴的外籍人士城市中有四個在亞洲。
The top 10 is completed, in order, by Luanda, Shanghai, N’Djamena, Beijing and Bern.
排名前十位的剩下幾個城市依次為羅安達，上海，恩賈梅納，北京和伯爾尼。
The world’s least expensive city for expats is Tashkent, sitting in 209th place in the Mercer list, below Tunis and Bishkek.
這個世界上最便宜的外籍城市是塔什干，位于美世名單第209位，在突尼斯和比什凱克之后。
Mercer uses New York as its benchmark for comparing the costs of living in other cities, and measures currency movements against the US dollar.
美世將紐約作為比較其他城市生活成本的基準，并對比美元來衡量貨幣走勢。
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