Alone on the terrace in the darkness of night I groped all over like a blind man trying to find upon the black stone gate of death some device or sign.

在夜晚的黑暗中，如同一个盲人，我独自在凉台上摸索着，想在死神的黑色石门上寻找一个纹章或是记号。

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In my books, people sit in front of their shikumen [stone gate] houses and talk.

在我的书里，人们坐在他们的石库门房子前聊天。

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Now he has put an ugly stone head over the gate.

现在他把一个丑陋的石雕头像放在了大门上边。

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To get there, you have to pass a row of splendid shikumen (traditional stone-gate houses) , and the old-Shanghai textures continue once inside, with red-brick interior walls and reproduced stone gateways above doorways to rooms which are simple, but smart.

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Hitachi is working with Nippon Signal and the University of Yamanachi to build a new boarding gate that hopefully kills those two security birds with one stone.

ENGADGET: Hitachi boarding gate can sniff explosives on passes, keep the transport queues flowing (video)