Mies’s sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.
密斯高雅的展示方式掩盖了一个事实，即他设计的空间是小巧而高效的，而不是宏大而常常空荡的。
“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.
Gary Eberle在《Sacred Time》一书中写道：未来像空瓶子一样沿着一条无法停止且几乎无限的传送带向我们涌来，我们感受到一种压力，必须在它们经过时填满这些不同大小的瓶子（天、小时、分钟），因为如果它们未被填满而通过，我们就会浪费了它们。
Half of them found a toy; the other half 16 the container was empty - and realized the tester had 17 them.
其中一半的人找到了玩具；另一半的人发现 16容器是空的——并意识到测试者 17了他们。
empty promises.
空头支票。
Everybody wants to know how the people who will soon inhabit those empty office cubicles will differ from those who came before them.
每个人都想知道，即将占据那些空置办公隔间的人，与他们之前的世代会有什么不同。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。