Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.

和其他现代建筑师一样，他使用了金属、玻璃和层压板木材材料，今天我们对这些材料习以为常，但它们在20世纪40年代却象征着未来。

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Our modern world is one in which we find our lives shaped increasingly by appurtenances of plastic and metal, concrete and glass, and-apparently too-rare earths.

我们生活的现代世界是这样一个世界，我们的生活越来越多地由塑料和金属附属物，混凝土和玻璃，尤其是稀土所塑造。

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Not whole body of a modern subway car is made of metal.

现代地铁车厢并非全身都是金属组成。

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So what's a modern metal band to do?

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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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Her complex character is reflected at home where ultra-modern brushed-metal decor overlooks a natural swimming pool brimming with pond life and the chicken run at the end of the garden.

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