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I’m just a bit blown away to be honest; It’s what we needed really, isn’t it, against other capitals; I’ve been on the London Eye and look how much higher up we are.
说实话，我真的感觉很不错；同其他首都相比，我们正需要这种建筑；我曾去过伦敦眼，现在站在碎片大厦上，我想看看它高出多少。
Well, The Shard seems to have the wow factor for those people. In other words, they were very impressed. The first woman said she was ‘blown away’ or amazed by the experience.
那些人似乎对碎片大厦很满意。换句话说，他们的印象很深刻。第一名女子说这次经历令人惊讶，或者说她很称赞此行。
Someone else mentioned it was much higher than the London Eye – that’s another famous landmark. And somebody else commented that it was what London needed – but why?
有人提到碎片大厦比另一所著名的标志性建筑——伦敦眼高。还有人评论称这正是伦敦所需，但为什么呢？
A good question. A new skyscraper can create good publicity for a city – it’s an image that is seen all around the world and it can show a city as being prosperous and modern. 
问得好。新式摩天大楼可为城市提供有力宣传。它是城市的形象，是城市繁荣现代的标志。
Yes, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is a good example of this. It boasts the world’s tallest building – the Burj Khalifa – standing at 828 metres tall. ’Burj’, by the way, is Arabic for tower.Other countries such as China, Malaysia and the USA all boast towers much taller than The Shard.
没错，阿联酋首都迪拜便是个很好的例子。那里拥有世界最高的大厦哈利法塔，海拔高达828米。顺便讲一下，Burj在阿拉伯语里是塔的意思。中国、马来西亚、美国等其他国家也拥有比碎片大厦高很多的塔楼。
Of course, the engineering involved is impressive. But what do you put inside these towers? Most contain luxury living accommodation, a hotel, offices, and, of course, an observation deck – that’s a viewing platform.
建塔工程固然让人印象深刻，但塔里面都放些什么呢？大多塔楼包括豪华生活设施、酒店、办公室，当然还有观景台。
But there is a problem for The Shard. At the moment only 20% of the office space is leased – which means only 20% is rented out. Jack Sidders from the Estates Gazette newspaper has his reasons for this:
但碎片大厦存在着一个问题。到目前为止，只有20%的办公地点得以租赁，换句话说，只有20%的办公地点被租了出去。对此，“庄园公报”的Jack Sidders如下解释道：
What they are trying to do is create an entire quarter here, to make it into more of an established office location but, you know, maybe if you’re a tenant, economy’s very dodgy, that added bit of risk, maybe that will put people off.
他们试图创建整套建筑，想让碎片大厦成为既定办公地点。但有时租客经济不可靠，增加了些许风险，所以他们就被排斥在外了。
So, the owners of The Shard want to make it an established office location – so, therefore, a good recognised location for business – but the current economic situation could be putting off tenants from moving in.
这么说来，碎片大厦所有者想让它成为既定办公地点，即良好的地理位置。但目前的经济形势使租客们无法租赁。
Yes, he said described the economy as dodgy – a slang word for uncertain or risky.
没错，他形容经济时用到了dodgy。这个词是俚语，是不确定的、冒险的意思。

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