The upper level glass volume hovers lightly over a dark iron-spot brick base that mediates between glass and ground and negotiates the grade change along the north elevation.

上层玻璃体被轻轻放置在一片介于玻璃与地面之间的深色铁斑表面的砖基础之上，柔化了北立面的高差。

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In her current role she broke through the glass ceiling as the first woman to reach senior management level in the company.

在她目前的职位上，她突破了那道升迁的无形障碍，成为公司里第一位升至高级管理层的女性。

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But for decades, physicists, who view window glass at the molecular level, have pondered the question of whether or not glass is a solid or merely an extremely slow-moving liquid.

但在几十年来一直在分子层面看待玻璃的物理学家那里，他们在思考玻璃到底是固体还是仅仅是移动异常缓慢的流体。

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It features luxury retailers at the street level, a glass box housing a clothing store on the fifth floor and a soaring space with stunning views on the seventh floor that can be rented for events all connected by an internal staircase that spirals up like a DNA helix.

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Others marvel at the shopping center itself, a five-level riot of curving glass in steel arches that looks like a greenhouse designed by fantasist M.

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Mr. Zehetbauer says his girlfriend complains that the door on the powder room on the main level is made of glass ("I tell her it's frosted glass, " he said).

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