美國標志性建筑中英文介紹（課堂PPT）

1、1 美國 標志性建筑 介紹21.紐約中央火車站（紐約中央火車站（Grand Central Terminal）3l 42.Mount Rushmore拉什莫爾山拉什莫爾山lMount Rushmore is a memorial to the birth， growth， preservation and development of the United States of America. Gutzon Borglum sculpted busts of Presidents George Washington， Thomas Jefferson， Theodore Roosevelt，

2、and Abraham Lincoln high in the Black Hills to represent the first 150 years of American history.lThe primary resource at Mount Rushmore is the granite sculpture itself， but also of interest is the Sculptors Studio built under the direction of Sculptor Gutzon Borglum in 1939. Unique plaster models a

3、nd tools related to the sculpting process are displayed in the studio.53. The White House6For almost two hundred years, the White House has stood as a symbol of the Presidency, the United States government, and the American people. Its history, and the history of the nations capital, began when Pres

4、ident George Washington signed an Act of Congress in December of 1790 declaring that the federal government would reside in a district not exceeding ten miles square.on the river Potomac. President Washington, together with city planner Pierre LEnfant, chose the site for the new residence, which is

5、now 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. As preparations began for the new federal city, a competition was held to find a builder of the Presidents House. Nine proposals were submitted, and Irish-born architect James Hoban won a gold medal for his practical and handsome design. 74. The Liberty Statue89The stat

6、ue, which depicts Liberty throwing off her shackles and holding a beacon to light the world, was the creation of the French sculptor Frdric Auguste Bartholdi, who crafted it a hundred years after the American Revolution in recognition of solidarity between the French and American people (though its

7、fair to add that Bartholdi originally intended the statue for Alexandria in Egypt). Bartholdi built Liberty in Paris between 1874 and 1884, starting with a terracotta model and enlarging it through four successive versions to its present size, a construction of thin copper sheets bolted together and

8、 supported by an iron framework designed by Gustave Eiffel. The arm carrying the torch was exhibited in Madison Square Park for seven years, but the whole statue wasnt officially accepted on behalf of the American people until 1884, after which it was taken apart, crated up and shipped to New York.1

9、05.戰(zhàn)爭墻戰(zhàn)爭墻/越南陣亡將士紀念碑越南陣亡將士紀念碑(the Vietnam Veterans Memorial)116.Golden Gate Bridge12lThe orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge-probably the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed bridge in the world-are visible from almost every point of elevation in San Francisco. The only cleft in Northe

10、rn Californias 600-mile continental wall, for years this mile-wide strait was considered unbridgeable. As much an architectural as an engineering feat, the Golden Gate took only 52 months to design and build, and was opened in 1937. Designed by Joseph Strauss, it was the first really massive suspens

11、ion bridge, with a span of 4200ft, and until 1959 ranked as the worlds longest. It connects the city at its northwesterly point on the peninsula to Marin County and Northern California, rendering the hitherto essential ferry crossing redundant, and was designed to withstand winds of up to a hundred

12、miles an hour and to swing as much as 27ft.137. the Lincoln Memorial 14lthe Lincoln memorial is a fitting tribute to the man who held the country together during the civil war and thereby put an end to slavery in the us. a craggy likeness of abraham lincoln sits firmly grasping the arms of his throne-like chair， app