As I stood outside its brokenness that day nearly a year ago, chiding the sea, a solitary black high-heeled sandal of mine teetered on a broken slab of concrete.

一年前的那天，我站在房子的废墟旁怒斥大海时，看到了我的一只高跟黑色凉鞋行影孤单地在一块破混凝土板上摇来晃去。

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Just beyond it, a tabletop-flat slab of concrete runway stretched for two miles.

紧挨着是一条光洁平整的水泥跑道，向前延伸达两英里。

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"That's the religious beach," Judy, our host in Tel Aviv, called out to me, pointing to slab concrete walls surrounding a section of prime beachfront property. "Looks like a prison, right?"

“那是教徒们的沙滩，”我们的特拉维夫主人朱迪对我喊道，指着一处有厚厚的水泥墙围起来的沙滩，“是不是很像一座监狱？”

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The facility, which is called a "gas governor" and consists of a large slab of concrete, a flue pipe and a control box, is intended to regulate gas supply in the area.

BBC: The gas governor in Oxted

There was a big slab of concrete.

WSJ: At Least 159 Die in Bangladesh Building Collapse

The design featured a wooden frame on top of a concrete-slab foundation, with an exterior covered in gray asbestos shingles. (Steel was in short supply.) The structure violated the Cambridge fire code, but it was granted an exemption because of its temporary status.

NEWYORKER: Groupthink