Crash: The newly built block of flats lies flat on its side after tumbling down in Shanghai leaving one person dead.

上海新落成的楼宇倒塌造成一人死亡。

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A lot depends on whether you're in a block or a terrace, a flat or a house, or whether you live in the centre of a residential area or at its edge.

这要看你住的是大楼还是排屋，是公寓套房还是个人大房子，是住在住宅区中心还是住宅区边缘。

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When inactive, the gates will lay flat on the seafloor; when water levels rise, they will be pumped full of air and rise above the surface to block sea water.

平时，闸门平铺在水底；在海水上涨时，闸门被注满空气，浮到水面阻隔海水。

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The inquest heard how the fire on the ninth-floor flat of the 15-storey block started after a resident left a curtain resting on a lamp.

BBC: Jim Shears (left) and Alan Bannon

The family lived in a flat on the fourth floor of the seven-storey block.

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Previously jurors have heard how faulty electrical equipment started the fire in flat number 65 on the ninth floor of the 14 storey block.

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