In 2015, a group of players from China and Spain set a world record: a nine person high human tower.

2015年，一群来自中国和西班牙的选手创造了一项世界纪录：一座九人高的人塔。

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Built for the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, the Eiffel Tower, with its record height and panoramic views, didn't do much for the critics, who called it unsightly.

艾菲尔铁塔是为1889年的巴黎世博会而建造的，但当时的评论家们对其创纪录的高度和全境视野并没有作出多少赞誉，反而认为它丑陋无比。

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Germany's Leaning tower of Suurhusen, which at an Angle of 5.19 degrees holds the Guinness world Record for the most tilted tower in the world, dates back to the 1450s.

德国的苏乌尔·胡森斜塔赢得了“世界最斜塔”的吉尼斯纪录，倾斜角度为5.19度，该塔始建于15世纪50年代。

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Annual sales of LPs in the U.S. had dipped below 1 million for the first time in a decade, and record giant Tower had just gone out of business.

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First came an indoor ski resort in 2005, then a floating palace hotel in the sea in 2008, and in 2011, a record-breaking stratospheric tower pierced the clouds.

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Finding new financing will not be easy: The troubled British record label EMI, now on the auction block, occupies 100% of the tower.

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