On one side, workers were busy restoring the 14,900-square-metre glass-domed roof of the Grand Palais, built for the Universal Exhibition in 1900.

马路的一边，工人们正忙碌地修葺大皇宫1.49万平方米的玻璃穹顶，这座建筑当初是为1900年的万国博览会所建的。

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Float glass is sold by the square metre, and at the final stage computers translate customer requirements into patterns of cuts designed to minimise waste.

浮法玻璃按平方米出售，在最后阶段，电脑将客户的要求转化为旨在减少浪费的切割模式。

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The statue in front of me is a small painted wooden figure of the god Osiris, just over half a metre high, in a glass case in one of the first rooms of this engrossing exhibition.

现在，摆在我面前的是一尊埃及冥王奥里西斯的小型描漆木质雕像，只有半米高，它被摆放在展厅第一个房间的玻璃橱窗里。

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Then, about 200 men walk the route wearing half- to full-metre-tall paper bishop hats, lit from within by candles and cut with intricate, stained glass window-like designs featuring Saint Nicholas.

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