The mythical Hanging Gardens of Babylon are often imagined as a stepped palace of terraces containing numerous trees, shrubs and exotic flowers.

巴比伦神话中的空中花园，人们通常将其想象成阶梯状的梯田宫殿，其中包括许多树木、灌木和奇花异草。

That's how big buildings shaped like these came about, with those big step-like forms leading to a tower.

像这样的大建筑就是这样产生的，些大的阶梯状的形式通向一座塔。

I went after him into a low unlit passage, at the back of which a ladder-like staircase rose into obscurity.

跟着他走进一条低矮的、没有灯光的通道，在通道的后面，一个阶梯状的楼梯升起，隐隐约约。

Yet it is similar enough that economists at Hamburg University have called it a staircase-shaped " moving Krugman band system" .

然而，汉堡大学的经济学家称其为阶梯状的“移动克鲁格曼带系统”非常相似。

It was initially a rectangular pyramid with stepped sides and stood one hundred and ten feet tall, but it has since eroded to a smaller cone.

它最初是一个四边呈阶梯状的矩形金字塔， 高 110 英尺，但后来被侵蚀成一个更小的圆锥体。