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

而不喜欢待在这样一个大得让人紧张的钢铁玻璃建筑里。

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?

那为什么现在这座大厦出现了这么多裂缝？

Edifices, that's pretty challenging. I know that's in the word... in the article.

建筑物，这个词很有挑战性。我知道这是在文章中的。

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。

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。

She will never originate a more faultless design, never erect a more perfect edifice.

她永远不会发起更完美的设计， 永远不会建造更完美的大厦。

SEN. It was built on the edifice of lies.

森。它建立在谎言的大厦之上。

In this edifice it was determined I should lodge.

我决定住在这座大厦里。

Peter's Church, during the renewal of that edifice.

圣彼得教堂，在该建筑的更新期间。

But the steel edifice of the state remained standing.

但是国家的钢铁大厦仍然屹立不倒。

We debate, dissect, and dismantle, then from the rubble we construct more expansive edifices for our understanding.

我们辩论、剖析和拆除，然后从废墟中为我们的理解建造更广阔的大厦。

I remember observing, as something new, the shape of familiar edifices, of spires, monuments.

我记得以新事物的方式观察熟悉的建筑物、尖顶和纪念碑的形状。

Lake Street Church decided to share ownership of its $17 million edifice with the Second Baptist Church in Evanston.

湖街教堂决定与埃文斯顿第二浸信会教堂分享其价值 1700 万美元的建筑的所有权。

Only the edifice is yourself and your life and your potential as a human being.

只有大厦才是你自己、你的生活和你作为一个人的潜力。

Her presence imparted an indescribable grace and faint witchery to the whole edifice.

她的出现给整座大厦增添了一种难以形容的优雅和淡淡的魔力。

Some threw water from a fire engine on the burning edifice, making a fiery rain of sparks arise.

一些人用消防车向着火的大楼泼水， 引发了一场火花四溅的火雨。

Nestled amidst the gleaming glass skyscrapers and avant-garde edifices, echoes from the distant past are making a resonant comeback.

坐落在闪闪发光的玻璃摩天大楼和前卫建筑之中，来自遥远过去的回声正在卷土重来。

The lonely edifice was black and bare, cutting up into the sky from the very tip of the hill.

这座孤独的建筑漆黑而光秃秃的， 从山顶直插云霄。

You can think of this volume as the front door to a magnificent edifice, like, say, the Louvre.

你可以把这本书想象成一座宏伟建筑的前门，比如卢浮宫。