英语翻译In the late 1960s many people in North America turned th

英语翻译
In the late 1960s many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems,and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized:Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities.
Skyscrapers are also lavish comsumers,and wasters of electric power.In one recent year,the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New York City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120,000 kilowattsenough to supply the entire city of Albany,New York,for a day.
Glass-walled skyscraper's can be especially wasteful.The beat loss (or gain)through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry wall filled with insulation board.To lessen the strain on heating and air-conditioning equipment,builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double- glazed panels of glass,and reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror films that reduce glare as well as heat gain.However,mirror-walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings.
Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a city's sanitation facilities,too.( if fully occupied,the two World Trade Center towers in New York City would alone generate 2.25 million gallons of raw sewage each year-- as much as a city the size of Stanford,Connecticut,which has a population of more than 109,000.)
Skyscrapers also interfere with television reception,block bird flyways,and obstruct air traffic.In Boston in the late 1960s,some people even feared that shadows from skyscrapers would kill the grass on Boston Common.
Still,people continue to build skyscrapers for all the reasons that they have always built them--personal ambition,civic pride,and the desire of owners to have the largest possible amount of rentable space.

在20世纪60年代后期,许多北美人把注意力转向了环境问题,新钢和玻璃摩天大楼受到了广泛的批评：生态学家指出,在城市的高楼大厦群经常给公共交通与停车场的承载能力造成过重的负担.
摩天大楼还是奢华的消费群体,和电力的浪费.在最近的某一年,另外的17万平方英尺的摩天大楼在纽约市的办公空间提出的最高日需求量为12万kilowattsenough电力供应整个城市的奥尔巴尼,纽约的一天.
玻璃幕墙的摩天大楼特别地浪费的可以.节拍损失(或增加)通过半英寸的平板玻璃墙壁的十倍以上,通过一个典型的砌体墙充满保温板.减轻取暖设备或空调设备的压力,摩天大楼的建造者们已经开始使用双-釉面面板玻璃,反光的眼镜涂上了金色或银色反光薄膜来减少强光照射和热量的增加.但是,镜面的摩天大楼会提高周围空气的温度并会对附近的建筑物产生影响.摩天大楼造成了沉重的压力对城市的卫生设施,太.(如果完全占领,这两个世界贸易中心双子塔在纽约就会将产生225万加仑的污水每年——多达一个城市的规模,康涅狄格州斯坦福,人口超过109000.
摩天大楼也干扰了电视接收、块鸟,妨碍空中交通面貌.在波士顿在1960年代后期,有些人甚至担心阴影从摩天大楼会杀草在波士顿公园.不过,人们继续建造摩天大楼的原因他们总是建造——个人野心,公民自豪感和欲望的所有者有最大可能数量的出租空间.
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