They stripped the factory of every superfluous element, exposing the wooden structure of the roof and the brick walls which were covered by a layer of plaster.

他们把拆除了厂房的一切多馀构件，暴露出屋顶木结构，并把原有砖墙外表面的抹灰剥掉。

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There are the big things that hit you first: the medical centre, a rambling, squat, three-storey yellow-brown structure that looks as if a car bomb, a big one, has gone off outside it, ripping out a great chunk of roof and exposing along one long facade its shiny steel skeleton.

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