Roald Dahl has already sent an elevator to space in his story Charlie and The Great Glass elevator, but to make this a reality a tower of 36,000km high would have to be built.

罗尔德·达尔已经在他的小说《查理与大玻璃升降机》中将电梯送进太空，但如果真的话那需要造一个36000公里高的巨塔了。

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Step off the key-locked elevator into a home where steel, glass, stone and wood mingle to stunning effect, yielding an experience that is at once striking and serene.

穿过带锁的电梯，走入到满是钢筋、玻璃、石头和木材混搭出的超美感觉的家，以往经验告诉我们，立马有种十分引人注目和安静的感觉。

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We leave through the steel doors and head up the ten-story elevator, past the retinal scanner, and through glass Chambers with sliding doors that seem like air locks on a spaceship.

我们从那个大铁门离开，乘着电梯从地下十层来到地上，先通过视网膜扫描，然后穿过一个带有滑动玻璃门好像飞船的空气舱一样的玻璃房间。

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Ride a glass elevator to the 160-meter-high observation deck for an incredible view of the city and its surroundings.

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Not only does it have eye candy amenities like a glass elevator and porcelain floors, but it also has a long list of green features including a solar heat pool, vent-less fireplaces fueled by bio-ethanol, and thermal glass double-glazed U.V. windows.

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He proceeded to stick the gadget on all sorts of surfaces -- glass, metal, rock, an elevator wall -- like a doctor with a stethoscope.

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