But now the gaunt and jagged tower is making news of another kind: Traffic vibration has caused its walls to crumble, with chunks threatening to fall off onto pedestrians below.

现在这个看起来十分平庸而且伤痕累累的钟楼又给人们带来新消息：由于交通引起的震动使墙开始脱落，有些大碎块可能砸伤下面的行人。

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The London Times, in 1889, said this is going to be a fiasco, there are going to be so many mistakes, and there are going to be so many complaints that this whole system is going to crumble and fall; but it didn't, it actually worked.

伦敦时报在1889年，曾预言这绝对行不通，将会有许多大大小小的问题，人们会对此怨声载道,然后整个体系土崩瓦解;,然而这些都未发生，这个体系运转良好。

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