The modern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark, narrow streets full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds.

大得吓人高楼和阴暗狭窄街道组了今日现代化城市。街道上充斥着汽油味和有毒气体，出租汽车、卡车、公共汽车噪音刺耳难忍，络绎不绝人群挤来挤去。

They make up a single, giant edifice obeying the same physical laws and all made from the same types of atoms, electrons, protons, quarks, neutrinos, that make up you and me.

它们组了一个巨大宏伟建物，所有建物里物质都遵循相同物理定律，由相同微粒组，原子，电子，质子，夸克，中微子——那些形了我们微粒。

According to the creators of this orbiting edifice, such a structure is the only possibly way to colonize the so-called “Morning Star” Venus, as its surface is a living hell.

根据这个轨道建创造者，这样结构是殖民所谓“晨星”金星唯一可能方式，因为它表面是人间地狱。

Not sitting twitching nervously in a colossal glass and stone edifice.

而不喜欢待在这样一个大得让人紧张钢铁玻璃建里。

So why is this edifice now revealing so many cracks?

那为什么现在这座大厦出现了这么多裂缝？

Edifices, that's pretty challenging. I know that's in the word... in the article.

建物，这个词很有挑战性。我知道这是在文章中。

If upheld on appeal, the ruling could topple the legal edifice of male control, depriving walis of their power over whether their women can study, work, travel or open bank accounts.

如果法庭支持上诉话，那么男性控制法律体系将会颠覆，他们对于女子是否能够学习，工作，旅游或开户决定权将被剥夺。

Not only was he a member of the hated Ferme Generale, but he had enthusiastically built the wall that enclosed Paris an edifice so loathed that it was the first thing attacked by the rebellious citizens.

他不但是税务总公司一名员，而且劲头十足地修建过巴黎城墙起义市民们对该建物厌恶之极，首先攻打就是这东西。

So while the debate over the costs of their edifices rages on, libraries continue to occupy a very fraught liminal space between relic and living archive.

因此，当关于建造这些建本争论还在继续时候，图书馆继续在遗迹和活档案之间占据着一个非常令人担忧空间。

After much deliberation, Minoru Yamasaki was commissioned over more than a dozen other architects to work with the firm of Emery Roth and Sons to design this massive edifice.

经过慎重考虑之后，山崎战胜了其他十多位建师，接受委托与埃默里·罗斯父子公司一起工作，设计这座规模庞大建。

The pavilions – and Fujimoto's " sustainable" edifice – will be dismantled later this year to make way for Japan's first casino.

展馆——包括藤本设计" 可持续" 建——将在今年晚些时候拆除，为日本首家赌场腾出空间。

Anyway, enter Google, whose grand new edifice is said to have cost somewhere in the region of a billion pounds.

不管怎么样，我们先进到谷歌里面看一看，据说这栋新大厦耗费了大约10亿英镑。

This little edifice is a rustic shrine devoted to Cadmus, and is under the dominion of parson Chub.

这幢不小建其实是向希腊神话中卡德摩斯献祭做工粗糙神龛，归教区长查伯管辖。

But such edifices are still uncommon.

但是这样建仍不多见。

SEN. It was built on the edifice of lies.

森。它建立在谎言大厦之上。

I always admire this building, edifice if you will, every time I walk past it.

我每次路过这座建时，总是很钦佩它，如果你愿意话，可以称之为大厦。

She will never originate a more faultless design, never erect a more perfect edifice.

她永远不会发起更完美设计， 永远不会建造更完美大厦。

But the steel edifice of the state remained standing.

但是国家钢铁大厦仍然屹立不倒。

You can just feel it's an edifice which is cracking quite quickly.

你甚至能感觉到，这栋建正在迅速崩塌。

Her presence imparted an indescribable grace and faint witchery to the whole edifice.

她出现给整座大厦增添了一种难以形容优雅和淡淡魔力。