In an 18-month siege, much of Mostar is destroyed-including its cherished 16th-century bridge.

在长达18个月的包围后，莫斯塔的很多地方被摧毁——包括16世纪建造的珍贵桥梁。

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Thecity's ancient bridge, Stari Most, a 427-year-old structure that hadgiven Mostar its name ("the bridge keepers"), had been completelydestroyed.

这座城市的古桥斯塔里莫斯塔——曾经赋予莫斯塔尔名字（“大桥监护人”）的一座有427年历史的建筑，被彻底摧毁。

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The Old Mostar Bridge, the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, and now the Mausoleums of Timbuktu.

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Today, UNESCO and the World Bank are coordinating the work of multicultural teams rebuilding the Mostar Bridge.

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There was something spectral about the sight of the old bridge at Mostar - as though the normal laws of the physical universe did not apply to it.

BBC: The new Mostar bridge