他们指出，如果没有电梯，城市里就没有市中心的摩天大楼或高楼大厦。
Without the elevator, they point out, there could be no downtown skyscrapers or tall buildings in cities.
我的爱情是在友谊这块地基上建起的高楼大厦。它经过了旷日持久的培养才得以开花。
Love was a magnificent building I built on the foundation of friendship. It took time to blossom.
提供全球知名品牌和当地老字号的高楼大厦遍布平地，时髦而昂贵的商场也拔地而起。
High-rise buildings are marching across the flatlands, and swish malls are springing up, offering global favorites and local ones .
但是，高楼大厦并非浦东的全部。
但是高楼大厦标示着生意不如以往了。
But the skyscraper is a towering indicator that business as usual is no longer working.
那些需要花数年时间建设的高楼大厦很有可能会是风险投资。
Tall buildings-which take years to put up-can be risky investments.
但是昨天，远一点的高楼大厦大多消失在一片黄黄的霾雾之中。
But yesterday, a murky yellow haze swallowed many of the distant tower blocks.
他们拥有优美的高速公路、时髦的购物商场、现代的高楼大厦。
They have a balletic freeway system; snazzy shopping malls; stylish skylines.
这里从前都是农田，种着玉米和蔬菜，而如今却都是高楼大厦。
This was all farmland - corn, vegetables - now it's buildings, skyscrapers.
有些深在内陆的城市，像三藩市那样，高楼大厦在夜间灯光闪闪。
Some cities deep in the Chinese mainland resemble San Francisco, with sparkling night lights on high-rise buildings.
如果我们把城市里的高楼大厦的热烘烘的房顶都改种草木改建成花园，那会怎样？
But what if we could replace the hot roof of each skyscraper or building in a city with grass or a garden?
如果有人毁了巴黎圣母院和吉萨大金字塔来建高楼大厦的话，人们肯定会异常愤慨。
We would be outraged if Notre Dame Cathedral or the Great Pyramid of Giza were demolished to make way for modern buildings.
稍后，随着人们对于高楼大厦以及类似建筑的喜爱这种高级目标又会被人们抛在一边。
Later on such lofty aims would be abandoned in favour of tower blocks and the like.
第一次迈入这个城市，我的妻子和我敬畏地盯着高楼大厦，拥挤的街道，紧张的生活节奏。
My wife and I stared in awe at all the huge buildings, the crowded streets, the intensity of life, when we first entered the city.
中国的成败并不取决于北京和上海拥有多少座高楼大厦，而在于广大农村地区的经济命运。
China will succeed or fail not because of how many skyscrapers Beijing and Shanghai have but as a result of the economic fortunes of its vast countryside.
结果，高楼大厦和大型商场在中国遍地开花，中国的经济也因此保持了约10%的增长速度。
As a result, developers erected high rises and shopping malls across the country and the Chinese economy grew at roughly a 10% clip.
二〇〇二年，上海的策划者突然大幅减低楼宇建筑的容积率，因为发觉高楼大厦的重量使该市下沉。
In 2002 Shanghai planners abruptly restricted building heights, because they found the city sinking under the weight of real estate.
他们吹嘘自己的高楼大厦，高山，大河，吹嘘自己是大国，是最好的国家，是最好的世界，最好的天堂。
Yet they boast of their tall buildings, high mountains, long rivers, big state, the best country, the best world, the best heaven.
当我第一次踏访中国时，那儿基本上没有汽车，很少有消费品，也没有高楼大厦，他们的科技也很落后。
When I first came to China, there were practically no automobiles, very limited consumer goods, and no high-rise buildings. The technology was fairly backward.
一路上我不断地通过头上的后视镜看着他，就见他目不转睛地看着路两旁的高楼大厦，直看得目瞪口呆。
All throughout the ride I looked back at him in the mirror above my head and saw that he was staring in amazement at all the towering skyscrapers and the buildings along the street.
O' Brien先生说，城市高楼大厦之间并非激光束往来交错，因为这一技术使用的都是红外光。
City skylines are not criss-crossed with grids of laser beams because it is all done using invisible infra-red light, says Mr O 'brien.
这样一来就可以用更少的卫星获得更好的定位效果，对那些在高楼大厦中使用它的人来说，这是一个很好的特征。
They would require fewer satellites in view to get a good reading on a position – a feature handy for driving amid tall buildings.
“这不是考虑你有多少高楼大厦的问题，这是人民有多么幸福的问题，”他在2009年一次党内谈话中这样说道。
'it's not about how many tall buildings you have, it's how happy people are,' he argued in a 2009 speech to Chongqing Party members.
“这不是考虑你有多少高楼大厦的问题，这是人民有多么幸福的问题，”他在2009年一次党内谈话中这样说道。
'it's not about how many tall buildings you have, it's how happy people are,' he argued in a 2009 speech to Chongqing Party members.
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