QuiveringHeights原文及翻译

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2、 i ghtsHow ta I I i s too tall? The debate among arch itects heats up.多高是太高?建筑师之间的争论升温了.From New York to Shangha i F cities have raced for decades to erec t theworId "s ta IIestskyscrapersStrueturesI i ke Chicago5s 443-meter-tallSears TowerorKuaI a Lumpur's 452一meterh i gh Petronas twins ha

3、veserved aspowerfuI totems,shoutingout economicarr i val "Theskyscraper ,Hsays RobertStern ,dean of theYa Ie Schoo I ofArch i tecture, "is the symboI of success ” But when two passenger pI anes（客机） smashed into the Wor Id Trade Center on Sep11, that equationwas forever altered o Skyscraper

4、s were suddenly transformed into fragile deathtraps。uRight now it's hard to justify building such hugemonuments, n says noted （著 名的） New York- based arch i tect Shoj i SadaOo"They are just too tempting a target”从纽约到上海，城市己经运行几十年来建造世界上最高的摩天大楼。像芝加哥443 米高的西尔斯大厦或吉隆坡452米高的双子塔的结构作为强大的图腾,喊着经济的到 来。“

5、摩天大楼”，罗伯特斯特恩说，耶鲁大学建筑学院院长，”是成功的象征。“但当两个客机在9月11日撞上世贸中心，这个方程被永远改变了。摩天大楼突然 变成了脆弱的危房。“现在很难证明建立这样巨大的纪念碑是正当的，“著名的纽约 基础架构师Shoji Sadao说“他们只是太诱人的目标。”G i a nt skyscrapers may turn out to be among the f i rs t casua I ties of the f i rst war of the 21st century Ever sinee the 50-story Woolworth Bui Iding was er

6、ec ted i n lower Manhattan in 1913, a deba te has raged （流行，风行）among arch i tects over the safety and practicaIity of the supertall build ing. Now t hose who have long agitated aga i nst t hem have sudden I y found an attentive audience. "The days of competing over who has the ta I Iest buildin

7、g are over , 55 Japanese arch i tect Toyo Ito dec Iared I ast weeko "The WorId Trade Center attack has taught us something that I" ve always be I i eved： human be i ngs shouId Ii ve cIoser to the earth.”巨大的摩天大厦结果成为二十一世纪第一场战争的第一个伤亡。自从50层的伍尔沃 思大厦于1913年建于下曼哈顿，超高层建筑的安全性和实用性成为一个辩论在建筑 师之间流行起来。现在

8、那些一直强烈反对超高层建筑的突然发现一个细心的观众。（完整）Ouiver ing Heights原文及翻译“竞争谁拥有最高建筑的时代己经结束，“日本建筑师伊东丰雄上周声明。“世界 贸易中心的被袭己经告诉我们，那是我一直相信的：人类应该住得更靠近地球。”Skyscrapers have a I ways been more about ego t han economics。 A bu i Id i ng more than 80 stories high requi res steeI reinforcements as bracing against the wind and extra e

9、Ievator banks （电梯 组）. which limit the amoun t of office space-a nd cut into pro fits （肖 ij 减利润）。 Only now have cr itics5 worst suspicions been confirmed ： the sheer height of thesestruetures makesthem potent i a 丨Iy devastat i ng hazards.The Wor I d TradeCenter withstoodthe initial blow of two terro

10、r i st一dr i ven Boeing 767s.But the jet-fuelf i re me I ted its steeI gi rders into putty,dropp i ngacre-s ize fIoorsonto each ot her I i ke a let ha I stack of metal pancakes.Fi refighters couIdn5 t reach upper floorsin time to be effec tive."It "s morally wrong to build those kinds of su

11、pertallbui Idings now,says Br i tish arch i tect Mark Dytham."Nobody knows howto cope with（应付）that kind of f i re at that kind of height。n摩天大楼一直比经济更自我。一个超过80层楼高的建筑要求钢筋作为风和额外电梯 组的支撐，这限制了办公空间和削减利润。眼下批评者最坏的怀疑得到证实：这些建 筑物的纯粹高度，使他们潜在毁灭性的灾害世界贸易中心经受了两架恐怖分子驾驶 的波音767的最初打击.但喷气燃料的火把建筑物的钢梁熔化成油灰，滴落在彼此英 亩大小的楼

12、层上就像致命的金属煎饼堆。消防员无法在有效的时间内及时到达上层楼面。“现在建立这类超高层建筑在道德上是错误的，”英国建筑师马克Dytham 说“没有人知道如何在那样高度应对那种火."Yet there 's pIenty to be saidfor the super tallbu i Id i ngs。For hugecompan i es,they allow thousandsto work together.Views from the windowsfeed executive egos。In crowdedcities Ii ke Hong Kong, h i g

13、hr i ses I eaveroom for muchn eeded park I a nd. SomeTrade Centers1 col lapse was actuallyarchitects contend that the WorId a testament （确实的证明）to itsengineer ing ingenuity :it did not toppies i deways ,and thousandsmanaged to evacuate before it felI. Most of those killed were on the top floors, abov

14、e the crash sites o "If the skyscraper i s over , ” argues Yale's Stern, "what next? The a i rpI ane? The WorId Trade Center came down in an order Iy way under conditions no one couId possibIy have anticipated in the 1970s然而有很多人为超高建筑讲话对大公司来说，他们允许数千人一起工作.从windows（完整）Quiver ing Heights原文

15、及翻译提供执行自我观点。像香港这样拥挤的城市，高楼大厦留出空间给急需的公用场地。 一些建筑师认为,世界贸易中心的倒塌实际上是证明其工程智慧：它没有向一侧倾覆, 数千人设法在其坍塌之前疏散.大部分死者是顶部楼层，撞击地点的上方。“如果摩 天大楼结束了，”耶鲁大学的斯特恩认为，“下一个是什么？飞机吗？世界贸易中心在 1970年代可能没有人预料得到的情况下以有序的方式倒塌。For the foreseeable future, skyscrapers are I i keIy to prov ide hous i ng for a Iarge percentage of office workers

16、 in Manhattan。 Though some companies have re Iocated to smaI I er buildings in New Jersey, many are tak i ng whatever space they can get。 The WorId Trade Center attack destroyed more than 1 million square meters of off i ce space一rough Iy equ i vaIent to the ervt ire centraI bus i ness d i striet of

17、 M i ami Bruce Mosley, pres ident of Uo S operations for the realestate （不动产，房地产） behemoth Cushman & Wakef i e I d （高纬环球），says h i s company has a I ready leased more than 400f 000 square meters of space in Manhattan sinee the di saster uch of it in skyscrapers o “Has there been an immediate imp

18、act on peopIe1 s desi res to be on the upper f Ioors ? ” he says o "With a few tenarrts there has。 But in our opinion thi s i s short-term reaction to the attackoii在可预见的未来，摩天大楼可能给很大一部分在曼哈顿办公室的职员提供住房.在新 泽西州尽管一些公司己经搬迁到较小的建筑物，许多人正在获取他们能得到的任何空 间。世界贸易中心的袭击摧毁了超过100万平方米的办公空间，大概相当于迈阿密的 整个商业中心区。房地产巨头高纬物

19、业的美国业务总裁布鲁斯莫斯利说，他的公 司在袭击以来己经在曼哈顿租赁400000多平方米的空间-很多都是来自摩天大 楼.“有一个直接影响人们的欲望是在楼上吗？ ”他说。“几个租户有。但是在我们 看来这是对袭击的短期反应.*May be so, but for now designers of a slew of new skyscrapers are under sudden pressure to defend thei r projects. When it is finished in 2005, the Shanghai Wor Id Financi a I Center i s to

20、 be the wor Id cs ta I Iest bui Iding： 460 meterso In Hong Kong, another supertower is in the works, and others ex i st or are i n the pIann i ng phases i n Katangi,Indi a, Pusan,South Korea; Dubai 、 United Arab Emi rates. and Mexico City. New York architect t who designed the Hong Kong project. has been asked by its backers （支持者，赞助者）whether the new structure cou Id stand up to the pound i ng that the Twin Towers to ok。 Kohn be I i eved that the building' s（完整）Quiver ing Heights原文及翻译super thick beams wou I d wi