skyscraper

1 A skyscraper is rising near our school.

我们学校附近正在建起一座摩天大楼。

2 But beyond them lay a seething mass of factories and skyscrapers.

3 Actually every skyscraper has a history.

其实每幢摩天大楼都有一段历史。

4 Or: “Notice how the skyscraper here looks like it’s about to pierce the moon. That’s a thoughtful choice of perspective.”

5 In Pudong, the skyscraper district of Shanghai, office workers are calm phlegmatic.

在上海高楼林立的浦东区, 上班族们镇定自如.

6 I couldn’t help but think about what it would be like to fall from the top of one of these mile-high skyscrapers here, down toward these hard concrete sidewalks below.

7 “The old man huddled in the dark doorway, his bony face lit by the burning yellow in the windows of distant skyscrapers.”

8 Little kids on pastel bikes pedaled furiously, churning the heat to butter, gasping stories of wooden crates piled higher than skyscrapers, of crates broken into, pigeons flushed and killed, security guards posted.

9 San Francisco’s Sixty-Niners, Bob Presto’s club: it stood in North Beach, within view of the skyscrapers downtown.

10 Mark sits on a seat at the tail end of the vessel and twists backward to look up at the towering skyscraper, where the dwindling glow of the day’s sunshine reflects an amber sheen.

11 Imagine yourself as an architect tasked with designing a large corporate skyscraper.

想想你是一个建筑师，分派到一个公司大厦的设计任务。

12 I stared out the window in silent apprehension as the corporate headquarters of Innovative Online Industries Inc. came into view: two rectangular skyscrapers flanking a circular one, forming the IOI corporate logo.

13 Why, twenty-two million black people should tomorrow give a dollar apiece to build a skyscraper lobby building in Washington, D.C.

14 With an elevator in the skyscraper , we can easily go up and down.

摩天楼里有电梯, 上下很方便.

15 The rim arced through the sky at a height of 264 feet, as high as the topmost occupied floor in Burnham’s Masonic Temple, the city’s tallest skyscraper.

16 There were no skyscrapers in Caldwell, thousands here.

17 It felt weird to see the skyscrapers once brimming with life and now half dead.

18 It was always night on Neonoir, the world over, and its surface was an uninterrupted grid of interconnected cities packed with impossibly large skyscrapers.

19 The sky beyond the cut of skyscrapers is gray, turning grayer, and in a few hours this flurry of snow will become a steady fall.

20 Talk about how these skyscraper complexes reflect our changing society.

1 高层建筑

high-rise cloudbuster high-riser hi-rise tower

2 摩天楼

Babel babel

3 摩天大楼

tower block