By the 13th century when the Aztec swept into central Mexico, the once teeming city—which reached its zenith around a.d. 400—had been long since abandoned by its mysterious builders.

在13世纪阿兹塔克人扫荡到墨西哥中部时，陶蒂华康这座繁华的城市（在公元400年左右为最繁华时期）已经被它神秘的建造者们遗弃很长一段时间。

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London is not the only city to have inspired builders in Suzhou, though.

话虽如此，伦敦不是唯一一个赋予苏州灵感的城市。

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Hoe many builders in this city can effectuate such progress in that short period of time?

这个城市还有多少建筑商能在如此短的时间内实现这么快的进度呢？

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Soon after his building was finished, builders in Chicago and New York City began copying and improving on the idea of building up.

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Mr Eglin is acutely alive to the way in which the received view of Bath, as a serene and homogenous Georgian polis, works to hide the fact that for most of Nash's time the place was a construction site, squabbled over by a set of bad-tempered competing interests: builders, architects and the city corporation itself.

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Liverpool City Council said an agreement had been reached with builders Regeneration Liverpool for the centre to open for the summer holidays.

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Constraints include a lack of on-hand ready-to-build lots (the price of pre-developed land lots has skyrocketed), tight lending standards for small to mid-sized builders, and a notable shortage of construction workers since tradesmen fled the city several years ago and have not returned.

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