Thus, the city structure itself, the way the city was built with houses along the canals reflects the economic primacy of global trade.

因此城市按照这个特点形成了自身的布局,沿着水道而修筑房屋的建筑特色,这也印证了其全球贸易中心的地位

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They build huge houses in the seventeenth century in Moscow with very old-fashioned traditional Russian architecture.

在17世纪,他们在莫斯科建造了巨大的房屋,用的是老式传统的俄国的建筑风格

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Now suddenly, the word is that it's falling, so suddenly they don't want these homes, so the inventory of unsold homes has shot up; builders can't sell them and prices are falling.

忽然,房价开始暴跌,楼市无人问津,待售房屋存量急剧上升,建筑商卖不动房子,房价暴跌

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