情景英语：中级美语对话(第103讲)

103.The Tallest Building in the World p.203

　　Recently Kuala Lumper beat Chicago in a battle of skyscrapers² when experts had the country's Petronas Twin Towers measured and declared it the world's tallest building. The title was formerly³ held by Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower. Its status had been left unchallenged for 22 years.

　　Buildings in the United States have held the title since 1913， but the need for space has created a skyscraper¹ boom in Asia. According to one building expert， “the ball has started rolling in Asia.” However，some experts think that building super-tall skyscrapers is not a matter of economics but ego⁴. Every architect wants to have the honor of having the tallest building in the world. When the planned 1509-foot Shanghai World Financial Center is finished in a couple of years， it will be China's turn to have that honor.

　　high 固定高度  tall 不断增高  习惯用法         The man is not tall， but he is high in status.

　　beat = defeat 击败

　　I try to measure（live） up to my teacher's expectations of me. 符合达到期望    expectations 用复数

　　or： meet your parents'expectations

　　on the fifth floor       a fifty-story building         storey（英）

　　construction    ego = pride    is a matter of ego 面子问题

　　It's Peter's turn to treat me to dinner finally.    treat sb to sth