The only high rises on the horizon were public housing towers, all red brick and small Windows.

地平线上唯一的高楼是公共屋塔，都是红砖小窗。

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As a result, developers erected high rises and shopping malls across the country and the Chinese economy grew at roughly a 10% clip.

结果，高楼大厦和大型商场在中国遍地开花，中国的经济也因此保持了约10%的增长速度。

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But to make way for the thousands of glass and steel high-rises, vast swathes of old buildings have been swept aside - some of considerable historical interest.

但是，为了给数千幢玻璃外饰的钢结构超高层建筑让路，大片旧建筑被拆迁，而其中一些具有重要的历史价值。

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Visions of soaring high-rises crumbling may grip the imagination but Surahman says it is the smaller one and two storey dwellings that are most vulnerable in places like Indonesia.

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But it's mostly... it's not like high-rises or something.

并不是那种高楼大厦。

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Adang Surahman, an earthquake engineering expert at Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology,says most of Jakarta's high-rises have been built to withstand what scientists refer to as the once in 500-year quake.

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Vast swaths of hutongs have been bulldozed to make way for high rises.

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