The problem with many modern buildings is that they lack personality.

许多现代建筑物的问题在于缺乏特色。

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The Pudong New Area, just across the Huangpu River, has many modern buildings.

就在黄浦江对岸的浦东新区有着很多现代建筑。

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Beijing is a big city with many modern buildings. The famous Forbidden City is also in Beijing, you know.

北京是有很多现代建筑的大城市。著名的故宫也在北京。

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Prosecutors are investigating why so many modern buildings were flattened by the quake and whether flawed construction materials were to blame.

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Why did so many modern buildings come crashing down including several schools, crushing the pupils inside them?

ECONOMIST: Tragedy on one of the world’s main fault lines | The

Following the market's heyday as a location for entertainment companies from the 1930s through the 1950s, many firms relocated to larger and more modern buildings in Burbank and elsewhere.

WSJ: Hooray for Hollywood! Columbia Square Redevelopment Is Slated

They still smack of the Manhattan-style modern buildings that have been popping up in nearby downtown Brooklyn ever since developers have realized that many of the city's well-heeled jet set live across the East River.

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