As a result, developers erected high rises and shopping malls across the country and the Chinese economy grew at roughly a 10% clip.

结果，高楼大厦和大型商场在中国遍地开花，中国的经济也因此保持了约10%的增长速度。

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Yet eight years later I took an American architect to downtown Pudong, and stunned, he observed that the high rises concentrated there may well be the best in the world.

然而，八年后，我带一位美国建筑设计师到浦东商业区，他目瞪口呆，说那里密集的摩天商厦可能是世界上最好的。

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We saw a few old buildings nestled in with 80-story high rises.

我们看到崛起的80层高楼紧挨着一些老式建筑。

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Visions of soaring high-rises crumbling may grip the imagination but Surahman says it is the smaller one and two storey dwellings that are most vulnerable in places like Indonesia.

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But it's mostly... it's not like high-rises or something.

并不是那种高楼大厦。

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Adang Surahman, an earthquake engineering expert at Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology,says most of Jakarta's high-rises have been built to withstand what scientists refer to as the once in 500-year quake.

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This is the land of empty high rises, slow drivers, humidity and boring baseball teams.

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Vast swaths of hutongs have been bulldozed to make way for high rises.

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