But there are still many things that make me uncomfortable, such as skyscrapers...

可是很多东西仍旧让我无所适从，比如高楼大厦。

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The skyscrapers invade the city and rise always higher, such as new totems, always more remarkable, always more impressing.

摩天大楼的不断侵入城市、越来越高，成了城市新的图腾，这些大楼只会更突兀、更惊人。

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The old alleys of cities such as Chengdu and Kunming, charming if impractical for motor vehicles and modern plumbing, have also been razed in favour of skyscrapers and tower blocks.

许多城市的老胡同，比如成都和昆明，不适合机动车和现代管道铺设，但引人向往。

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The mill was built around an iron frame in a technique adapted in the rebuilding of Chicago in the late 19th Century and for skyscrapers such as New York's Empire State Building.

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More than 2, 000 amendments followed, introducing such notions as superblocks in the 1940s to limit density by spacing skyscrapers widely apart.

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