The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat decided in nineteen ninety-six to include the height of the spires of the Petronas Towers.

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Therefore, John's earlier temptations to escape his golden school, so he hopes that he might escape into Broadway, into all spires of New York, escape from the squat tenements of Harlem.

所以说，John最初企图,逃离学校,想要逃到百老汇去，体验纽约市的奢靡繁华，逃离哈雷姆区那片矮小的公寓楼。

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By the nineteen thirties, some of the possible record-making skyscrapers were being designed with spires.

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Spires are the thin, pointy tops of buildings.

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