Repair crews did not have a way of identifying broken pipes located deep within a high-riseapartment building.
维修人员无法识别位于高层公寓大楼深处的破裂管道。
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Erased paper is a more accurate metaphorfor this peninsula, where hundreds of thousands of native inhabitants wererelocated to high-riseapartment buildings that loom beyond the constructionzones.