What the pagoda builders realised was that they could use controlled motion at the joints of a building to help it dissipate sudden stresses imposed on its various members .
宝塔建设者们意识到,他们可以在建筑物的接头部使用控制手段,以帮助其消除在各构件上产生的骤加压力。
A group of monks walks along the wall of the royal palace 's silver pagoda temple complex in phnom penh .
金边,一队僧人走在皇家宫殿的银塔寺庙墙外。
Below the pagoda a spontaneous , medieval army was massing .
在宝塔下,一个自发的、仿中世纪的部队在集合。
Like all great buildings , a japanese pagoda is as much a machine as a structure .
像所有杰出的建筑物一样,日式宝塔像机器又像建筑物。
In essence , then , the pagoda is a tuned mass-damping system .
大体上,宝塔由此成为一个调谐阻尼系统。
But with the introduction of buddhism into japan in the sixth century , the pagoda underwent a fundamental change in design .
但是,在六世纪佛教传入到日本后,宝塔却在设计上发生了根本性变化。
You can see the toji pagoda soaring 55 metres ( 180 feet ) into the sky from the train as it pulls into kyoto station .
当火车驶入京都车站时,你可以在火车上看见耸入九宵的高达55米的(180英尺)东宝塔。
Burma : young boys ride their water buffaloes at the shwe indein pagoda near inle lake
缅甸:小男孩们在茵莱湖(inlelake)附近的shweindein宝塔前骑着他们的水牛。
Yet the magnitude 6.9 shock left the magnificent five-storey pagoda at the toji temple in nearby kyoto unscathed , even though it levelled a number of lower structures in the neighbourhood .
然而,这场6.9级大地震并未致京都附近东寺的五层大宝塔受损,即使它荡平了附近了一些较低的建筑物。
' 'i 'm Going to go to the pagoda to pray that I never go back , ' ' she said , for she had seen other girls rescued from the brothels who ended up ostracized by outsiders and slinking back again .