The concrete apartment blocks show their age and they become unfit for human's habitation.

混凝土公寓楼明显老化，已经不适合人类居住了。

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Even as the setting sun silhouettes these gigantic structures against the great desert expanse, a call for prayer floats over semi-finished apartment blocks filled with the activity of city life.

在广阔的沙漠中，夕阳映照出这些巨大建筑的轮廓，但在充满城市生活活力的半成品公寓楼上空，传来了祈祷的召唤。

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The high- and low-rise apartment blocks built in the 1960s are crumbling.

建于20世纪60年代的高、低层公寓楼正摇摇欲坠。

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Everybody walks, often alone and silent, down green boulevards, past huge white apartment blocks.

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