But such edifices are still uncommon.

但是这样的建筑仍不多见。

So why is this edifice now revealing so many cracks?

为什么现在这座大厦出现了这么多裂缝？

This little edifice is a rustic shrine devoted to Cadmus, and is under the dominion of parson Chub.

这幢不小的建筑其实是向希腊神话中的卡德摩斯献祭的做工粗糙的神龛，归教区长查伯管辖。

Not sitting twitching nervously in a colossal glass and stone edifice.

而不喜欢待在这样一个大得让紧张的钢铁玻璃建筑里。

A marvelous work and a wonder we undertake, an edifice awry we sink plumb and straighten

我们做了一件了不起的工作，一件令惊奇的事情。

So while the debate over the costs of their edifices rages on, libraries continue to occupy a very fraught liminal space between relic and living archive.

因此，当关于建造这些建筑的成本的争论还在继续的时候，书馆继续在遗迹和活的档案之间占据着一个非常令担忧的空间。

Anyway, enter Google, whose grand new edifice is said to have cost somewhere in the region of a billion pounds.

不管怎么样，我们先进到谷歌里面看一看，据说这栋新大厦耗费了大约10亿英镑。

According to the creators of this orbiting edifice, such a structure is the only possibly way to colonize the so-called “Morning Star” Venus, as its surface is a living hell.

根据这个轨道建筑的创造者，这样的结构是殖民所谓的“晨星”金星的唯一可能的方式，因为它的表面是间地狱。

They make up a single, giant edifice obeying the same physical laws and all made from the same types of atoms, electrons, protons, quarks, neutrinos, that make up you and me.

它们组成了一个巨大的宏伟建筑物，所有的建筑物里的物质都遵循相同的物理定律，由相同的粒组成，原，电，质，夸克，中——些形成了我们的粒。

If upheld on appeal, the ruling could topple the legal edifice of male control, depriving walis of their power over whether their women can study, work, travel or open bank accounts.

如果法庭支持上诉的话，么男性控制的法律体系将会颠覆，他们对于女是否能够学习，工作，旅游或开户的决定权将被剥夺。

The modern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark, narrow streets full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds.

大得吓的高楼和阴暗狭窄的街道组成了今日现代化的城市。街道上充斥着汽油味和有毒气体，出租汽车、卡车、公共汽车的噪音刺耳难忍，络绎不绝的群挤来挤去。

Not only was he a member of the hated Ferme Generale, but he had enthusiastically built the wall that enclosed Paris an edifice so loathed that it was the first thing attacked by the rebellious citizens.

他不但是税务公司的一名成员，而且劲头十足地修建过巴黎的城墙起义的市民们对该建筑物厌恶之极，首先攻打的就是这东西。

DEEP INSIDE Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone sits the opulent, sprawling edifice that until 2003 served as Saddam's Republican Palace, with four 13-ft. bronze busts of the dictator on the rooftop, visible for miles around.

深入巴格达守卫森严的绿色管制区就到了庞大而富丽堂皇，2003年前一直是萨达姆共和党的宅邸的地方。屋顶上矗立的4个高达13英尺（约4米）的萨达姆青铜半身像远在数英里之外就能看见。

And this edifice can be viewed through countless dimensions