为什么我们不能在着火的大楼里使用电梯？
那些受益的人可能是我们在星巴克、地铁或电梯里没有遇到的任意某个人的年迈亲属。
Those who will benefit may be the elderly relatives of the random person we didn't pass in Starbucks, on the subway, or in the elevator.
如果我们能利用太阳能为这样的电梯提供动力，我们只需花费乘坐火箭或航天飞机旅行费用的一小部分就能进入太空。
If we could power such an elevator with solar energy, we could simply rise up into space for a fraction of the cost of a trip by rocket or shuttle.
我们住的那栋大楼甚至还有一个很小的电梯，电梯里有一个女声用优美的法语说道“门已开启”。
Our building even had a tiny lift with a female voice that said, "Ouverture des portes," in perfect French.
正当电梯门就要关上时，又有一个人问我们能不能再挤紧一点，让他上来。
As the door of the lift was closing, another man asked if we could squash up to let him in.
我们从那个大铁门离开，乘着电梯从地下十层来到地上，先通过视网膜扫描，然后穿过一个带有滑动玻璃门好像飞船的空气舱一样的玻璃房间。
We leave through the steel doors and head up the ten-story elevator, past the retinal scanner, and through glass Chambers with sliding doors that seem like air locks on a spaceship.
在电梯那边，一个穿着制服的日本私家警卫很谨慎地朝我们看着。
By the elevators, a uniformed Japanese private security guard looked us over carefully.
上周，瑞德在参议院通过口头投票迅速通过了一项置我们于那台直升电梯的议案。
Last week, Reid whistled through the Senate, by voice vote, a bill to put us on that escalator.
随后我们发现电梯离我们的游览路线太远，我正想黄雪晴坐着轮椅该如何游览博物馆。
When we discovered that the elevators were a long detour from our route, I wondered how Huang Xueqing, in her wheelchair, would get to see much of the museum.
我们将拥有X光视界、空间电梯和两倍的寿命，能够用念力移物（比如说马汀尼酒）。
We'll have X-ray vision and space elevators and live at least twice as long and be able to move things, perhaps even martinis, with our minds.
穿过带锁的电梯，走入到满是钢筋、玻璃、石头和木材混搭出的超美感觉的家，以往经验告诉我们，立马有种十分引人注目和安静的感觉。
Step off the key-locked elevator into a home where steel, glass, stone and wood mingle to stunning effect, yielding an experience that is at once striking and serene.
日日夜夜，我们都能在美图村发现青年志愿者。他们在电梯门开启的时候，按下按钮，并向客人问好。
Young volunteers are also found in media apartments day and night. They press the up button at the elevators and say hello to guests when the elevator door opens.
有一个人穿着服务员的服装坐电梯到我们房间，但我发现服务员穿着一双高跟鞋，要知道，绝大部分清洁工为了方便都只穿平底鞋。
Some person got up through the elevator and came to the room wearing a maid's uniform. But we noticed she was also wearing heels.
看到我们，他扑通坐进轮椅，带我们去电梯。
Upon seeing us, he plunked himself into his wheelchair and led us to the elevators.
他住在七楼，我们乘上电梯，一部很大的电梯，里面能够容纳三十个人。
He lived on the seventh floor, and we took the elevator, a very large elevator, into which more than thirty people could have fit.
我们不会说：“当你走出电梯，往南走，然后在第二个门口往东。”
We don’t say: “When you get out of the elevator, walk south, and then take the second door to the east.”
电梯被玻璃墙环绕，我们向外望去看着洛杉矶的市中心随着电梯的升高而灯光朦胧。
The elevator was glass walled and we looked out on downtown Los Angeles as it went up into the light mist.
我也努力享受那些小乐事，就像我们在电梯上按了3，电梯上行，开门见到楼层上有同样的数字3呼应着。
I also tried to appreciate small blessings, like that when we pressed 3 on the elevator, it went up and opened on a floor with a corresponding number 3.
电梯里只有我们三个人，在他们中间我觉得非常尴尬。
They were only three of us in the elevator, I felt very embarrassed to be in the middle of them.
直到现在我仍记得，电梯门完全关闭之前我们对视的那几秒钟，我是多么努力地保持微笑；电梯门关上，我再也控制不住自己的情绪，旁边的陌生人都尴尬得默不作声。
I remember the extraordinary effort it took to keep a smile on my face in those few seconds before he slid from view and I could let myself go amidst the embarrassed silence of strangers.
我最近在等电梯的时候偶遇了一位加拿大同胞。我们对于各自的出生地和在中国的时间长短有了一场愉快的交谈。
I recently bumped into a fellow Canadian as we waited for an elevator. We had a pleasant exchange about respective birthplaces and length of time in China.
我想到了一个方法可以解决我们在电梯里谈到的问题。
I came up with a solution to the problem we were talking about in the elevator.
他提到看电梯里的广告可以改善我们的尴尬状态。
He suggests that advertisements in lifts could improve our experience of being in one.
我们没有坐电梯，而是走楼梯下来。
我们走着下楼梯而没有乘电梯。
根据这项研究，我们得出结论，上下班走楼梯不坐电梯的人们会更长寿。
From this study, we conclude that people taking the stairs instead of elevators at work can expect to live longer.
根据这项研究，我们得出结论，上下班走楼梯不坐电梯的人们会更长寿。
From this study, we conclude that people taking the stairs instead of elevators at work can expect to live longer.
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