This makes for highly rational use of the space, as there is no surface lost to circling around the structure, with the building also being naturally ventilated.

这使得空间得到高度合理利用，因为没有围绕着建筑物周边的地表损失，建筑还可以自然通风。

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Anyone can see a clear-cut rain forest and know that something was lost, but on the surface, a living sea and a dead one look much the same.

所有人都能在看到热带雨林被砍伐的同时感到失去了什么，但一片生机勃勃的海域和一片死气沉沉的海域从表面看来没什么两样。

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However it is unusual in that it lost much of the hydrogen from its surface as it ballooned.

但是不寻常的是，在膨胀的过程中，大部分的氢元素通过表面消失。

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The Dead Sea lost thirty-three percent of its surface area during the last half-century.

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But when his wingtip touched the surface, he lost control and the plane apparently flipped, coming to rest on its back.

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She was lost beneath the surface for thirty minutes before her parents found her on the pond bottom and pulled her up.

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Paulsen laughs about it now, but his sub lost contact with the surface for 90 minutes during the ascent.

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