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Lifts and skyscrapers 电梯和摩天大楼 The other mile-high club 另一个高耸入云的俱乐部 A new lightweight lift cable will let buildings soarever upward 一种新型的轻型升降梯将会让建筑继续向更高处发展 WHEN Elisha Otis stood on a platform at the 1854 World Fair in New York and ordered anaxeman to cut the rope used to hoist him aloft, he changed cityscapes for ever. 当艾利沙奥的斯在1854年纽约世界博览会上站在一个高楼的阳台下，命令一个持斧的人砍断那个把他带到高空的绳索时，他彻底改变了人们对城市景观的印象。 To the amazement of the crowd hisnew safety lift dropped only a few inches before being held by an automatic braking system. 为了吸引人群的眼光，在新的自动制动系统起动前，他只让他的新安全电梯降落了几英寸。 This gave people the confidence to use what Americans insist on calling elevators. 这让人们在使用电梯时-美国人坚持这个称呼有了足够的信心， That confidence allowed buildings to rise higher and higher. 也正是缘于这种信心，后来的建筑造得越来越高。 They could soon go higher still, as a result of another breakthrough in lift technology. | 
