1. Each of the sides of the pyramid is 755 feet long, or about as long as two city blocks.
    每一边长755英尺，大约有两个街区那样长。

2. Late-night parties in apartment blocks, noisy neighbours, vehicles of all kinds, especially large container trucks thundering through quiet villages, planes and helicopters flying overhead,
    大声吵闹的邻居，各式各样的车辆，特别是穿越寂静的村庄的集装箱卡车，从头顶飞过的飞机和直升机，被带到公共场所、

3. These huge stone blocks weigh an average of two and a half tons each, as much as a small car.
    这些巨大的石块平均每块重２吨半，像一辆小型轿车那样重，

4. Now after many centuries, the shining surface is worn away, and men have taken some of the huge blocks of stone to build other things.
    许多世纪后的今天，闪闪发光的表面已经剥落了，人们搬走了许多大石块去修建别的东西。

5. A single gene will code for only one of the many molecules and cell proteins that are the building blocks of the brain.
    一个基因仅仅为构成大脑的众多分子和细胞蛋白中的一个指定遗传密码。

6. Many of the blocks came from the east bank of the Nile, and they were taken across the river in boats at flood time.
    石料多取自尼罗河东岸，涨洪水时人们用船将石块运过河。

7. James Cameron of the London News Chronicle, who was in China in 1954, reported even then the pace of building was unbelievable; how four new hospitals, six factories, and eleven full-scale blocks, had been laid out, started and completed in a matter
    一九五四年访问中国的伦敦《新闻纪事报》记者詹姆斯·卡麦隆报导说，当时建设速度之快是难以令人置信的：四家医院，六座工厂和十一个完整的街区仅在数周之内就设计、建造并完工了。

8. It has over 2,300,000 blocks of solid stone.
    它由230多万块坚实的石头建成。