Picture the Empire State Building - practically a fortress, with 210 vertical columns throughout the building, and virtually no column-free spaces.

想象一下帝国大厦——实际上是一座堡垒，整个建筑有 210 根垂直柱子，几乎没有无柱空间。

He explained that earlier skyscrapers were built with a mixture of masonry and steel frames with vertical columns spread throughout the building.

他解释说，早期的摩天大楼是用砖石和钢框架混合建造的，垂直柱子遍布整个建筑。

Here, we're talking about big vertical columns of air yanking planes up and down, hail, foreboding cumulus clouds… stuff you don't wanna fly through.

这里，我们谈论的是巨大的垂直气柱， 使飞机上下摇晃，冰雹，令人不快的积云...... 这些都是你不想飞过的。

Also, to prevent property damage, architects now design buildings so that the building's columns and horizontal beams are of equal strength, and vertical support columns are inserted deep into solid soil.

同样，为了预防财产损失，建筑师如今设计楼房时会使房屋的支柱和横梁力度相等，而垂直支柱则深深插入坚实的地基中。