the highest building in the world-世界最高的高楼

Burj Khalifa 

(Arabic: برج خليفة‎ "Khalifa Tower"), known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717 ft). 

Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009.

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which is the higher and which is the lower ?哪个更高，哪个更低？

High and low
lithograph, 1947, 50.5 x 20.5 cm
 

In this print the same picture is presented twice over, but viewed from two different points. The upperhalf shows the view that an observer would get if he were about three storeys up; the lower half is the scene that would confront him if he were standing at ground level. If he should take his eyes off the latter and look upwards, then we would see the tiled floor on which he is standing, repeted as a ceiling in the centre of the composition. Yet this acts as a floor for the upper scene.

About the author

Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972), was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.

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ways to reach the sky...各种亲近天空的方式

Here a tracking shot representing some children games: ferris wheel, swing and so on. Each of these games contemplates some movements concerning the high and low in which the child is rocked. 

"Hunting High and Low", Coldplay

Here, I am
And beyond the reach of my hands
She's sound asleep
And she's sweet another know why
These dreams could've seen her
And I watched her slipping away
And I know I'll be hunting high and low
High...
There's no end to the lengths I'll go to
High and low
High...
There's no end to the lengths I'll go to
Find her again
Upon this my dreams are depending
Through the dark
I can hear the pounding of her heart
Next to mine
She's the sweetest love I could find
So I know I'll be hunting high and low
High...
There's no end to the lengths I'll go to
High and low
High...
Do you know how it feels to love you?
Do you know how it feels to love you?
High and Low

reach the high of the storage passing by the lower stairs-堆叠

Staircase, the storage system in vertical by Danny Kuo

2010
Bamboo, stainless steel
L.55cm W.74cm H.260cm
Made with products from Bamboo Solutions and Blum

The most efficient way to build is vertically.Building vertically saves space as it uses minimal ground square meters. When it comes to interior design, the same rule can be applied. By focusing on height rather than width, efficient storage designs can be created. However, high storage designs can create a new problem because the higher storage parts will be difficult to reach. My Staircase is a shelving unit that combines a bookshelf with a pullout stair system in the bottom three shelves. The shelving unit is 2.6 meters high and the top shelves are accessible by using the bottom shelves as steps for accessing the higher shelves.

Snoopy and Woodstock-史努比

Flying in high skies

Snoopy is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle. Snoopy began his life in the strip as a fairly conventional dog, but eventually evolved into perhaps the strip's most dynamic character — and among the most recognizable comic characters in the world.

In this strip appears Snoopy with his friend Woodstock, a little yellow bird. Compared with it, a very low animal, even Snoopy could appear an high character!!

Kidnapping's Anatomy-对绑架的解析

High and Low (天国と地獄 Tengoku to Jigoku, literally "Heaven and Hell") is a 1963 film directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai and Kyōko Kagawa. It was loosely based on King's Ransom, an 87th Precinct police procedural by Ed McBain.

Plot

A wealthy executive named Kingo Gondo (Toshirō Mifune) is caught between two sides in a struggle to gain control of a company called National Shoes. One faction wants the company to make cheaply made, low quality shoes for the impulse market while the founder of the company wants it to stick with sturdy but unfashionable shoes. Gondo believes that the long-term future of the company will be best served by well made shoes with modern styling, though this plan is unpopular with the other executives because it means lower profits in the short term...  read more

Calvin and Hobbes-卡尔文和霍布斯

 An high tiger with a low boy

Calvin and Hobbes is a syndicated daily comic strip written and illustrated by American cartoonist Bill Watterson. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. The pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher.

Calvin and Hobbes is set in the contemporary Midwestern United States in an unspecified suburban community. The strip depicts Calvin's flights of fantasy and his friendship with Hobbes, and also examines Calvin's relationships with family and classmates.

heels?!-鞋跟？！

 

Only for women?

Elizabeth Semmelhack, curator for the Bata Shoe Museum, traces the high heel to male horse-riding warriors in the East who used high heels for functionality, because they help hold the rider's foot in stirrups. She states that the earliest high heel she has seen is depicted on a 9th century on a ceramic bowl from Persia.

Since the late 18th century, men's shoes have had primarily low heels. A notable exception is cowboy boots, which continue to sport a taller riding heel. The two-inch Cuban heel features in many styles of men's boot, but was popularised by Beatle boots, famously worn by the English rock group, The Beatles, which saw the reintroduction of heels for men which some men still wear high heels today . Winklepicker boots also usually feature a Cuban heel. There was also a brief resurgence in higher-heeled shoes for men in the 1970s (in Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta's character wears a Cuban heel in the opening sequence). The singer Prince is known to wear high heels, as well as Elton John. Bands such as Mötley Crüe and Sigue Sigue Sputnik predominantely wore high heels during the 1980s. Currently being worn by Bill Kaulitz, the lead singer of Tokio Hotel, are wedges.

question of waist...和腰有关的问题

 

In the years habits changes cyclically and makes us slaves of fashion: the high or low waist is only an example of this trend.

altitudes-海拔高度

The two territories in the picture, the Tibet which is called the Roof of the World and the Netherlands whose land is mostly under the sea level represent two examples of high and low altitude in geography.

chinese proverbs of high and low-与高和低有关的中国谚语

一人说话全有理，两人说话见高低

Whatever one person said is reasonable, but the level of speech is obvious if two people talk.

世情看冷暖，人面逐高低。——明·冯梦龙《东周列国志》第九十回

Through the attitude of the people in society, different social status can be seen.

人往高处走，水往低处流

The human walks toward the high place, water toward low spot class



the highest man in the world-世界上最高的人



 

Zhan Shi Chai ( 詹世钗),
was a Chinese giant who toured the world as "Chang the Chinese Giant" in the 19th century. He  was born in Fuzhou in what is now Fujian Province in the 1840s, though reports of the year vary from 1841 to 1847. His height was claimed to be over 8 feet (2.4 m), but there are no authoritative records. He left China in 1865 to travel to London where he appeared on stage, later travelling around Europe, and to the US and Australia as "Chang the Chinese Giant". Zhan received a good education in various countries, and developed a good understanding of ten languages. In America, he earned a salary of $500 a month.

Kin Foo, the Chinese wife who accompanied Zhan from China, died in 1871, and Zhan later married Catherine Santley, a Liverpudlian whom he met in Sydney, Australia. They had two children: Edwin, born in 1877 in Shanghai, and Ernest, born in 1879 in Paris.

In 1878, Zhan retired from the stage and settled in Bournemouth, where he opened a Chinese teahouse and a store selling Chinese imports.

Zhan died in Bournemouth in 1893, four months after his wife, aged around 50. His coffin was 8 feet 6 inches (2.6 m) long.

up! up! up!-上升！上升！上升！

The Journey To The Heaviside Layer (Cats)

It is one part of the famous muscial theater of 'Cats'. The name of the song is 'The Journey to The Heaviside Layer'.(云外之路) Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. Cats first opened in the West End in 1981 and then on Broadway in 1982, each time directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Gillian Lynne; it won numerous awards, including both the Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony Award for Best Musical. In this part, the old cat will get the new life after she go the upper cloud...

Direct-reading decibel meter: 4000463-直读分贝计：4000463

Description of the patent:

The decibel meter is the perfect example of how a sound can be high or low intensity. Tomeasure this intensity using a special instrument called a SPL-meter. It measures thesignal strength in audio equipment and the value in Volume Units. Sound level meters measure sound pressure level and are commonly used in noise pollution studies for the quantification of almost any noise, but especially for industrial, environmental and aircraft noise. However, the reading given by a sound level meter does not correlate well to human-perceived loudness; for this a loudness meter is needed.

Inventors: Fred L. Katzman, Cedar Grove; Archie J. Arrison Jr, Mt. Arlington.
Assignee: Ballantine Laboratories, Inc.

ancient chinese mythology -中国古代神话

The Beginning of the World Pangu -盘古开天辟地

The sky and the earth were at first one blurred entity like an egg.Then Pangu was born into it. The separation of the sky and the earth took eighteen thousand years. Between the sky and the land there was Pangu, who went through nine changes every day, his wisdom greater than that of the sky and his ability greater than that of the earth. Every day the sky rose ten feet higher, the earth became ten feet thicker, and Pangu grew ten feet taller.

Another eighteen thousand years passed, and there was an extremely high sky, an extremely thick earth, and an extremely tall Pangu. After Pangu died, his head turned into the Five Sacred Mountains (Mount Tai, Mount Heng, Mount Hua, Mount Heng, Mount Song), his eyes turned into the moon and the sun, his blood changed into water in river and sea, his hair into grass. In all, the universe and Pangu combine in one. 

Animation of The Beginning of the World Pangu: 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2awKcwcpgM)

meanings-意思

High


1.   a. Having a relatively great elevation; extending far upward: a high mountain; a high tower.
      b. Extending a specified distance upward: a cabinet ten feet high.
2.   Far or farther from a reference point: was too high in the offensive zone to take a shot.
3.   a. Being at or near the peak or culminating stage: the high tourist season; high summer.
      b. Advanced in development or complexity: high forms of animal life; higher mathematics.
      c. Far removed in time; remote: high antiquity.
4.   a. Slightly spoiled or tainted; gamy. Used of meat.
      b. Having a bad smell; malodorous.
5.   a. Having a pitch corresponding to a relatively large number of sound-wave cycles per second: the high    tones of a flute.
      b. Raised in pitch; not soft or hushed: a high voice.
6.   Situated relatively far from the equator: a high latitude.
7.   a. Of great importance: set a high priority on funding the housing program.
      b. Eminent in rank or status: a high official.
      c. Serious; grave: high crimes and misdemeanors.
      d. Constituting a climax; crucial: The chase scene is the high point of the film.
      e. Characterized by lofty or stirring events or themes: high adventure; high drama.
8.   Lofty or exalted in quality or character: a person of high morals.
9.   a. Greater than usual or expected, as in quantity, magnitude, cost, or degree: "A high price has to be paid for the happy marriage with the four healthy children" (Doris Lessing).
      b. Favorable: He has a high opinion of himself.
10. Of great force or violence: high winds.
11.  a. Indicating excitement or euphoria: high spirits.
       b. Slang Intoxicated by or as if by alcohol or a drug, such as cocaine or marijuana.
12.  Luxurious; extravagant: high living.
13.  Linguistics Of or relating to vowels produced with part of the tongue close to the palate, as in the vowel of tree.
14.  Of, relating to, or being the gear configuration or setting, as in an automotive transmission, that produces the greatest vehicular speed with respect to engine speed.

adv. higher, highest
1.   At, in, or to a lofty position, level, or degree: saw a plane high in the sky; prices that had gone too high.
2.   In an extravagant or luxurious way: made a fortune and lived high.

n.
1.   A lofty place or region.
2.   A high level or degree: Summer temperatures reached an all-time high.
3.   The high gear configuration of a transmission.
4.   A center of high atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
5.   Slang An intoxicated or euphoric condition induced by or as if by a drug.


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Low
     
1.   a. Having little relative height; not high or tall.
      b. Rising only slightly above surrounding surfaces.
      c. Situated or placed below normal height: a low lighting fixture.
      d. Situated below the surrounding surfaces: water standing in low spots.
      e. Dead and buried.
      f. Cut to show the wearer's neck and chest; décolleté: a low neckline.

2.  Near or at the horizon: The sun is low in the sky.
3.  Close or closer to a reference point: was low in the offensive zone, near the goal.
4.  Linguistics Produced with part or all of the tongue depressed, as a, pronounced (ä), in father. Used of vowels.
5.  Of less than usual or average depth; shallow: The river is low.
6.  Humble in status or character; lowly: of low birth.
7.  Biology Of relatively simple structure in the scale of living organisms.
8.  Unrefined; coarse: low humor.
9.  Violating standards of morality or decency; base: a low stunt to pull. See Synonyms at mean2.
10.  a. Lacking strength or vigor; weak.
       b. Lacking liveliness or good spirits; discouraged or dejected.
11.  a. Below average in degree, intensity, or amount: a low temperature.
       b. Below an average or a standard: low wages; a low level of communication.
       c. Ranked near the beginning of an ascending series or scale: a low number; a low grade of oil.
       d. Relating to or being latitudes nearest to the equator.
       e. Relatively small. Used of a cost, price, or other value: a low fee; a low income.
12.  Having a pitch corresponding to a relatively small number of sound-wave cycles per second.
13.  Not loud; soft: a low murmur.
14.  Being near total depletion: My savings account is low.
15.  Not adequately provided or equipped; short: low on supplies.
16.  Depreciatory; disparaging: a low opinion of him.
17.  Brought down or reduced in health or wealth: in a low state.
18.  Of, relating to, or being the gear configuration or setting, as in an automotive transmission, that produces the least vehicular speed with respect to engine speed.

adv.
1.   a. In or to a low position, level, or space: aimed low; bent low.
      b. In or to a low condition or rank; humbly: thought low of himself.
2.  In or to a reduced, humbled, or degraded condition: brought low by failure.
3.  Softly; quietly: speak low.
4.  With a deep pitch: sang low.
5.  At a small price: bought low and sold high.

n.
1.  A low level, position, or degree: Rain collects in the lows. The stock market fell to a new low.
2.  Meteorology A region of atmospheric pressure that is below normal.
3.  The low gear configuration of a transmission.


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etymology-词源

High

see the detail in The etymology of high.

Low

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translations-翻译

high / low

Afrikaans: hoë / lae

Albanese: të lartë / të ulët

Arabo: ارتفاع / انخفاض

Armeno: բարձր / ցածր

Baschi: handia / txikia

Bielorusso: высокая / нізкая

Bulgaro: висока / ниска

Catalano: alta / baixa

Ceco: vysoké / nízké

Cinese: 高/低

Coreano: 높은 / 낮은

Creolo Haitiano: segondè / ba

Danese: høj / lav

Ebraico: גבוה / נמוך

Estone: kõrge ja madala

Filippino: mataas / mababa ang

Finlandese: korkea / matala

Francese: haut / bas

Galiziano: alta / baixa

Gallese: uchel / isel

Georgiano: მაღალი / დაბალი

Giapponese: ハイ/ロー

Greco: υψηλής / χαμηλής

Indonesiano: tinggi / rendah

Irlandese: ard / íseal

Islandese: hátt / lágt

Italiano: Alto / Basso

Latino: alto / humilis

Lettone: augsta / zema

Lituano: aukštas / žemas

Macedone: високи / ниски

Malese: tinggi / rendah

Maltese: għoli / baxx

Norvegese: høy / lav

Olandese: hoog / laag

Persiano: بالا / پایین

Portoghese: alta / baixa

Rumeno: mare / mică

Russo: высокая / низкая

Serbo: Високо / Ниско

Slovacco: vysoké / nízke

Sloveno: visoka / nizka

Spagnolo: alta / baja

Svedese: hög / låg

Swahili: juu / chini

Tainlandese: สูงสุดและต่ำสุด

Tedesco: hoch / niedrig

Turco: yüksek / düşük

Ucraino: висока / низька

Ungherese: magas / alacsony

Urdu: بلندی پر / کم

Vietnamita: cao / thấp

Yiddish: הויך / נידעריק