Cities have a lot of apartment buildings and some tall buildings may seem to "scrape the sky", so they are called "skyscraper".

城市有许多公寓楼，一些高层建筑就象是“触摸天空”，因此称作摩天大楼。

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The climax occurs on the pointed peak of a high-rise, as if all that any film required, in the bid to top its predecessors, was to scrape the edge of the sky.

NEWYORKER: Tangled Webs