1. To get out, I would have to climb back down the narrow ladder from the tower and walk past the long row of "salarymen"(薪水阶层)and "office ladies" lined up behind me at an amusement park (游乐园) named Tokyo Roof(东京屋顶). 要出去,就得顺着窄窄的梯子从高塔上往下爬,走过排在我后面的长长的一列"薪水阶层"、"办公室女郎"。这一切发生在一个叫做"东京屋顶"的游乐园里。
2. Tokyo Roof is one of hundreds of amusement parks, sports centers, and resorts opening all over Japan as this hard-working nation brings its characteristic efficiency and intensity to the newly serious business of play. 几百家游乐园、体育中心、度假地在日本各地相继开张,"东京屋顶"就是其中之一。日本这个勤劳的民族近来把游乐作为一件认真的事来做,体现了其典型的高效和激情。
3. Tokyo Roof is a test market for new amusement park ideas. 东京屋顶"是各种新颖游乐园想法的试验场。
4. Quietly Joan showed him the damp cracked walls, the rotten floorboards, and the collection of buckets, jugs and basins she used to catch rain dripping from the roof. 琼静静地带他看了潮湿裂缝的墙壁、腐烂的地板和一堆她过去用来接房顶滴落的雨水的桶、水壶和脸盆。
5. A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below. 一阵大风把床从屋顶上刮了下来,哐一声响落在下面的院子里,
6. A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below. 一阵大风把床从屋顶上刮了下来,哐一声响落在下面的院子里,
7. A great mass of snow has fallen off the roof. 从房顶掉下了一大块积雪。
8. After switching on powerful arc lights, they saw great stalagmites---- some of them over forty feet high ---- rising up like tree-trunks to meet the stalactites suspended from the roof. 他们打开强力弧光灯,看见一株株巨大的石笋,有的高达40英尺,像树干似地向上长着,与洞顶悬挂下来的钟乳石相接。
9. A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below. 一阵大风把床从屋顶上刮了下来,把它摔碎在下面的院子里。
10. And then there is Tokyo Roof, where I went sky diving indoors. 还有这家我玩室内蹦极跳的"东京屋顶"。