英语词汇twin towers的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	twin towers
词源	Twin Towers. Until their tragic destruction by terrorists on September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent- er complex in downtown Manhattan were New York’s tallest office buildings, surpassed only by the Petronas Towers in Ma- laysia and the Sears Tower in Chicago. Over 50,000 people worked in the World Trade Center complex, thousands of whom were killed in the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. See empire state building.
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