Lifts stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be trapped between two floors, you had the unpleasant task of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs.

电梯停止了工作，所以即使你足够幸运没有被困在两层楼之间，你也要经历一项艰难的任务，要找到通往下几百层楼的路。

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Everyone is important—not only the people who clean the floors or drive the buses but also the people who teach the students or lead the schools.

每个人都很重要——不论他是清洁地板的、开公共汽车的、教书的还是领导学校的。

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Not only did I spend a lot of time cleaning floors, but also I got to spend some time looking after the patients.

我不仅花了很多时间清洁地板，还花了一些时间照顾病人。

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It meant that people would not have to climb many steps to reach the upper floors of tall buildings.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

The elevator up the spire is manually operated and represents its progression in feet, not floors.

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And the similarities to real ocean floors do not stop there.

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Verkooijen admitted the first floors were not very efficient, and said the designers were already working on new models to improve the amount of energy captured.

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