One Vanderbilt achieves its height by purchasing air rights from a number of surrounding properties and effectively stacking them onto its site.

One Vanderbilt 从周围的许多房产购买空间权，经过层层叠建，形成如今的高度。

Another group favored cutting the way through Panama after purchasing the rights of the old French company which, under the direction of De Lesseps, the hero of the Suez Canal, had made a costly failure some twenty years before.

在购买了这家老法国公司的权利后， 另一群人赞成通过巴拿马开辟道路， 这家老法国公司在苏伊士运河的英雄德勒塞普斯的领导下，大约在二十年前付出了惨重的代价。