They were incorporated into gothic stonework as early as the 13th-century to keep rain water off cathedral roofs, their mouths serving as the ejector spout.

早在13世纪，这种哥特式建筑是为了存储教堂屋顶上的淌下的雨水建造的，他们的嘴巴就像是喷泉口。

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Public areas of the hotel are open to the elements, but everywhere you turn pitched roofs protect from sun or rain and the swish guestrooms bring the outdoors in.

酒店的公共区域敞开在自然之中，但到处有可以遮挡阳光和风雨的屋顶，而漂亮时尚的客房把户外的美景装进了屋里。

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Many people there were living without water or electricity, in homes without roofs—and there has been torrential rain every day.

仰光停水停电，很多人住在没有屋顶的房子里---那里每天暴雨不断。

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Rain falls on the metal roofs and flows into aluminum gutters.

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Finally, our train heaves out of the station and past the creeks of Mombasa Island, belching out plumes of thick smoke as we swoop around shanty towns where corrugated iron roofs glisten in the rain, and ditches where frogs croak in the darkness.

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