The ancient pagoda is undergoing repairs.

那座古塔正在修缮中。

The ancient pagoda is still there, but not in its integrity.

那座古塔还在, 但是不完整了。

The lofty pagoda stands like a giant at the top of the mountain.

巍巍宝塔屹立在山巅。

I came here ten years ago with my classmates and we drew the pagoda above Baoguo Temple.

十年前我和我的同学来到这里，画了保国寺上的宝塔。

Many tourist attractions there are well worth visiting, such as Sudi Causeway, the Broken Bridge and Leifeng Pagoda.

许多旅游景点都很值得参观，比如苏堤，断桥和雷峰塔。

The pagoda on the top of the hill, said to have been constructed in the Song dynasty, is a popular tourist attraction.

山顶上的宝塔据说建于宋代，是一个受欢迎的旅游景点。

A young boy gives me an umbrella and two monks lead me across the sandy courtyard past a stone pagoda towards the Hall of the White Lotus.

一个小男孩给了我一把伞，两个和尚领着我穿过沙院，经过一座石塔，来到白莲殿。

Among his artworks, you could find the ring dedicated to New York or Moscow, with Italian patio or Chinese pagoda, with gems or only from platinum.

在他的作品中，你可以找到献给纽约或莫斯科的戒指，有意大利天井或中国宝塔，有宝石或仅来自铂金。

Yet it left the magnificent five-storey pagoda at the Toji temple in nearby Kyoto unscathed, though it levelled a number of buildings in the neighbourhood.

尽管它将附近的许多建筑物夷为平地，但京都附近的东寺里宏伟的五层宝塔安然无恙。

More surprising is the fact that the individual storeys of a Japanese pagoda, unlike their counterparts elsewhere, are not actually connected to each other.

更惊人的是这样一个事实：日本宝塔的楼层与其它地方的同类建筑不同，它们实际上并不相连。

In fact, in some pagoda designs, it does not even rest on the ground, but is suspended from the top of the pagoda—hanging loosely down through the middle of the building.

事实上，在一些宝塔的设计中，它甚至不停留在地面上，而是从塔顶悬吊下来——松散地悬挂在建筑的中间。

Is the answer that, like a tall pine tree, the Japanese pagoda—with its massive trunk-like central pillar known as shinbashira—simply flexes and sways during a typhoon or earthquake?

答案会不会是这样：日本宝塔——由于有着一根叫做“塔心柱”的巨大树干状中心柱子——就像一棵高大的松树般，在一场台风或地震中仅仅只会来回摇摆和弯曲呢？

Mr Ishida, known to his students as "Professor Pagoda" because of his passion to understand the pagoda, has built a series of models and tested them on a "shake-table" in his laboratory.

学生们称石田先生为“宝塔教授”，因为他对宝塔的研究非常热忱。石田制作了一系列模型，并在自己实验室的“振动台”上对它们进行了测试。

The multi-storey pagoda came to Japan from China in the sixth century.

公元6世纪，多层宝塔从中国传入日本。

In the distance, the golden spire of the Leifeng Pagoda, a stunning 10th-century landmark rebuilt only eight years ago, emerges out of the greenery.

在远处，雷锋塔的金色塔尖显现在绿树丛中，这座壮观的 10 世纪地标建筑始是在八年前重建的。

Viewed from the side, the pagoda seemed to be doing a snake dance—with each consecutive floor moving in the opposite direction to its neighbours above and below.

从侧面看，这座宝塔就像在跳蛇舞——每一层楼都朝着上下相邻楼层相反的方向移动。

The Wild Goose Pagoda was dimly visible.

大雁塔隐隐在望。

A high pagoda rises behind our house.

在我们家的后面矗立着一座高塔。

But a pagoda works nothing like a pine tree.

但宝塔绝非如松树般建造。

In essence, then, the pagoda is a tuned mass-damping system.

大体上，宝塔由此成为一个调谐阻尼系统。

Instead, she gave them blanketsand showed them to a nearby pagoda.

不过，她给了他们毯子，并把他们带到附近的庙宇。

The eaves of a Japanese pagoda extend the building's width by 70% or so.

日本宝塔的屋檐延伸出长度相当于房屋宽度的70%，甚至更多。

On the way to la Pagoda for dinner, Zhu picked up a local real-estate circular.

在我们去宝塔中餐厅吃晚餐的路上，朱先生发现了一条当地房产广告。

Like all great buildings, a Japanese pagoda is as much a machine as a structure.

像所有杰出的建筑物一样，日式宝塔像机器又像建筑物。

Young people did not understand ask: "how to use warm tea pagoda in a temple?"

年轻人不解地询问：“宝刹怎么用温茶？”

A group of monks walks along the wall of the Royal Palace's Silver Pagoda temple complex in Phnom Penh.

金边，一队僧人走在皇家宫殿的银塔寺庙墙外。

People visit the Shwedagon Pagoda during the yellow robe weaving festival in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar).

在缅甸传统的直桑岱点灯节，人们参观仰光大金塔。

The wise men of old said, 'Saving one life earns more merit than building a pagoda of seven stories.'

圣人们常说‘救一命，胜造七级浮屠’。