当另一种升降技术取得突破后,很快,高楼大厦将会继续往更高处发展。
This week Kone, a Finnish liftmaker, announced that after a decade of development at itslaboratory in Lohja, which sits above a 333-metre-deep mineshaft which the firm uses as atest bed, it has devised a system that should be able to raise an elevator a kilometre ormore.
本周,一家荷兰的电梯制造者通力声称,该公司位于洛雅的实验室该实验室坐落于一个333米深的,用于试验的矿井上方经过数十年的研究,开发了一种可以让电梯升高到一公里甚至更高的系统。
This is twice as far as the things can go at present.
这个高度是现在电梯可以达到高度的二倍。
Since the effectiveness of lifts is one of the main constraints on the height of buildings, Kone stechnologywhich replaces the steel cables from which lift cars are currently suspendedwith ones made of carbon fibrescould result in buildings truly worthy of the nameskyscraper.
因为电梯高度是建筑物高度的主要制约因素之一,所以通力的技术将以碳纤维取代目前技术中,让升降车悬浮于半空的钢索会让那些摩天大楼能够真正配得上这个名字。
The problem with steel cables is that they are heavy.
钢索的不足就是它们太重了。
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