The roofs had shingles missing.

屋顶的一些瓦板不见了。

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Trading was important, as so many raw materials, the semiprecious stones for the decoration of the temples, timbers for roofs, and all metals, had to be imported.

由于大量原材料，如用于装饰庙宇的半宝石石料、建造屋顶的木材和所有金属都需要进口，贸易变得至关重要。

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This lead to some confusion and people thought that those little sheds attached to the side of buildings were called pendiz because they had sloping roofs.

而这个巧合使人把两者混淆了起来：人们认为，之所以把这类搭建在房屋旁边的小窝棚叫做pendiz，是因为它们都有着倾斜的屋顶。

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And,they live in a constant threat of eviction from whatever roofs they had, even if it is a squatter camp,"

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He described how the first phase of repairing the palace's cast iron roofs had been "more difficult than expected".

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Ms Massai said many people had climbed onto roofs and up trees to escape the rising water, then fallen or hurt themselves as they came down.

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