We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome.

当时我们正站在一个教堂塔楼的顶上，是父亲把我从罗马的家里带到这个离家不远的意大利小镇楼顶上来的，我不明白他要做什么。

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Just a few blocks away is the new town where the Han Chinese abode, where instead tower blocks rise vertically like bamboo shoots and overshadow the street.

就在几个街区之外就是汉人居住的新城，那里的高楼如雨后春笋般地矗立起来给大街投上了阴影。

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Across town, take a walk down Financial Street, and you'll pass No. 9, a 17-story concrete-and-glass tower that's unoccupied.

在金融街走上一遭，你会发现金融街 9号这个钢筋水泥和玻璃组成的17层大楼依然空空如也。

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Barnsley's centre does crown a hill, and the Art Deco town hall clock tower might be vaguely related to a campanile, but there the resemblance to anything Italian ends.

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It is in the clock tower on town hall, located on the Oval.

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