A thousand pounds of metal is an enormous amount of wealth in this era. To waste so much of it in a burial is pretty unusual.

在那个时代，一千磅的金属材料是一笔数额巨大的财富，耗费这么多的材料用来埋葬是相当不寻常的。

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Architect Sir Norman Foster elegantly combined a refurbished British-era military structure surrounded by manicured green lawns with curved, metal-clad modern hotel buildings and villas that tumble down a hillside to the South China Sea.

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