And adobe houses are still being built.

仍然有很多人在建造土坯房。

With flat roofs-often with projecting beams-stepped levels and round-edged walls, they are called adobe houses, and they are one of Albuquerque's defining characteristics.

这些具有平坦屋顶，向外伸出房梁，阶梯式布局及圆角墙壁的房子被称为土坯房，它们是阿尔布开克的特色之一。

They built adobe houses instead of reed houses.  They brought water through the city in canals that were only rivaled by Italy’s Venice  to ensure the lake water was always fresh.

他们建造土坯房而不是芦苇房。他们通过仅与意大利威尼斯相媲美的运河将水运过城市，以确保湖水始终是新鲜的。

At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs.

当时，马孔多是个二十户人家的村庄，一座座土房都盖在河岸上，河水清澈，沿着遍布石头的河床流去，河里的石头光滑、洁白，活象史前的巨蛋。

For many years he'd lived in a cave in the hills, but finally he'd been persuaded to move down to the plain where some charitable person had given him a plot of land and had built a little adobe house for him.

多年来，他一直住在山上的一个山洞里，但最后被说服搬到平原上，那里有一位好心人给了他一块地，并为他盖了一座土坯房。