Recent Examples on the WebThe company is partnering with Perennial Holdings to build the tallest skyscraper in Singapore, and its Southeast Asia arm Lazada saw total orders growing 10% year-over-year during the second quarter. Yue Wang, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022 And rather than cowering before an enraged Communist Party, the people of Taiwan announced their defiance in lights on Taipei’s tallest skyscraper, with the message: Speaker Pelosi … Welcome to TW. Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022 William Le Baron Jenny’s building at LaSalle and Adams streets — becomes the world’s first steel-frame skyscraper.Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022 For the past three years, however, Brumunddal has earned a new claim to fame: home to Mjøstårnet, the world's tallest wooden skyscraper—a record that will probably fall in a matter of weeks. Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 May 2022 Most architectural historians credit the 10-story red brick and granite Home Insurance Building, built in 1885 at the corner of La Salle and Adams streets, as the first modern skyscraper. Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 29 Jan. 2022 Fifteen months after losing his cleaning job at Boston’s tallest skyscraper, Elmer Andino was finally called back to work in July.BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021 Supertech was one of the most aggressive developers in northern India, with plans to build thousands of apartments, as well as an 80-story skyscraper named Supernova, which would have been one of the country’s tallest buildings. Shefali Anand, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022 At one end a skyscraper of the Montreal sort—like the Bell Telephone Building on Beaver Hall Hill. Mavis Gallant, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022 See More
ADJECTIVE | ... OF SKYSCRAPERS | VERB + SKYSCRAPER | SKYSCRAPER + VERBADJECTIVE➤giant, huge, tall, towering高聳入雲的摩天樓◇the world's tallest skyscraper世界最高的摩天樓◇in the shadow of the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan在曼哈頓高聳入雲的摩天大樓的陰影下➤modern, new現代/新建的摩天樓➤downtown (NAmE) 市中心摩天樓➤20-storey/20-story, 30-storey/30-story, etc. * 20 層、30 層等的摩天樓➤glass玻璃幕牆摩天樓➤gleaming燈光閃爍的摩天樓◇Chicago's skyline of gleaming skyscrapers燈光閃爍的摩天樓構成的芝加哥空中輪廓線... OF SKYSCRAPERS➤forest林立的摩天樓群◇He found himself approaching a forest of skyscrapers.他發現自己來到一群摩天樓附近。VERB + SKYSCRAPER➤build建摩天樓➤surround環繞摩天樓◇a square surrounded by towering skyscrapers四周環繞着高聳的摩天樓的廣場SKYSCRAPER + VERB➤loom, rise摩天樓高聳◇Tall skyscrapers loomed above us.高大的摩天樓在我們上方赫然聳立。◇On all sides, skyscrapers rose like jagged teeth.四周聳起的摩天大樓參差不齊。➤tower above sb/sth, tower over sb/sth摩天樓遠遠高出⋯◇The skyscraper towered over the surrounding buildings.這座摩天大樓遠遠高出周邊的建築。