He looked not at the towers but at the space between them and thought what a wonderful place to stretch a rope; a wire on which to walk.
他看着两幢大厦间的空隙而不是这两幢楼，想道：这是一个多么适合架上钢索让人走过去的地方。In the fast out of the door when the building, took a fancy to a casual jacket and tried not bad.
在快出大厦大门的时候，看上了一件休闲外套，试了试还不错。Before his fall, he had been lining up a fourth (so far undetected) big customer for his full-service bomb-building package.
在他下台以前，他已在为他完全服务的核武器大厦中安排到第四位（到目前为止还没有发现）大顾客。They said the interpreter was online trying to figure out which of two Moma Towers in Beijing we wanted, causing a lag in communication.
他们说，那名译员当时正在上网查找我们到底希望前往北京两处摩码大厦中的哪一处，这导致了交流的不畅。It had a track record of returning to the same targets; it had tried to blow up the World Trade Centers with a truck bomb in 1993.
以往的记录显示，该组织有重复打击同一目标的习惯：1993年，基地组织就曾试图用卡车炸弹炸毁世贸中心大厦。A few years ago while visiting New York City, I made a trip up to the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
数年前游览纽约巿时，我曾登上帝国大厦的观景台。The Walkie-Talkie building, work on which started in January and is due to be completed in 2014, is a joint venture with Canary Wharf Group.
一月开工、定于2014年完工的“步话机”大厦就是与金丝雀码头集团（CanaryWharfGroup）的合作项目。Deflection of the support system is often critical, especially in older buildings where brittle materials were used in construction.
支持系统的偏折经常是重要的，特别是在更旧的大厦，易碎的材料用于建筑。In the months that followed, six of its commercial tenants ran off. They did not want to be in the tallest anything, anywhere, anymore.
在接下来的几个月，六家帝国大厦的商务住户搬走了，他们再也不想住在最高的楼里了，无论在什么地方。