美国十大标志性建筑中英文介绍概要

1、美国十大标志性建筑,1,The Empire State Building,The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in,New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th,Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New,York. It stood as the worlds tallest building for more than forty,y

2、ears, from its completion in 1931 until construction of the World,Trade Centers North Tower was completed in 1972. Following the,destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, the Empire State,Building again became the tallest building in New York City and,New York State. The Empire State Building h

3、as been named by the,American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders,of the Modern World. The building and its street floor interior are,designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks,Preservation Commission, and confirmed by the New York City,Board of Estimate.3 It was designat

4、ed as a National Historic,Landmark in 1986. In 2007, it was ranked number one on the List,of Americas Favorite Architecture according to the AIA. The,building is owned and managed by W the transition line where work,resumed at the 150ft level is readily apparent,To visit the monument pick up a free

5、ticket from the 15th St,kiosk (on the Mall, south of Constitution Ave), which allows,you to turn up at a fixed time later in the day. The elevator up,takes seventy seconds and deposits you at the 500ft level in,order to enjoy the monuments panoramic 360,views of the,city,7,战争墙,越南阵亡将士纪念碑,the,Vietnam

6、Veterans Memorial,坐落在华盛顿特区。整个建筑由两面有黑色石头组成的,V,字造型组成，上面按照死亡日期和失踪年月刻满了在越,战中失去的,58000,名美国士兵。曾有人批评建筑过于简单,了，可它每年仍吸引着超过,150,万游客来参观,战争墙于,1982,年开放，是十大建筑中，最晚设计和建,造的，建筑师是年仅,21,岁的耶鲁在校学生,Maya Lin,还有,一个理由让我们记住这个华裔女孩，近代史上的大才女林,徽因是她的姑姑，可算是出身建筑世家,越战纪念碑，简单利落的线条，敞开的大角度,V,一端,指着林肯纪念碑，另一端指着华盛顿纪念碑。在两端与地,平线合而为一，还有黑色的大理石镶嵌在

7、高度的落差之中,就是这么简单，所以震撼如此深刻。读到的说明中有形容,它是一本敞开着的大书。当沿着他顺着走下时，就好像是,在阅读着叙述越南战争历史的书，黑色的大理石上封存着,一去不复返的士兵的名字。没有说明，什么都没有。很严,肃，很静，却静水流深的感觉,8.Golden Gate Bridge,The orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge-probably,the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed,bridge in the world-are visible from almost ever

8、y point,of elevation in San Francisco. The only cleft in Northern,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. Desi

9、gned by Joseph Strauss, it was the,first really massive suspension 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 redu

10、ndant,and was designed to withstand winds of up to a hundred,miles an hour and to swing as much as 27ft,9.The Pentagon,The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States,Department of Defense, located at 48 N. Rotary Road,Arlington, Virginia 22211 (Map). Its mailing address is,Washington, DC 2030

11、1. As a symbol of the US military,he Pentagon is often used metonymically to refer to the,Department of Defense rather than the building itself,Those who work within its walls often simply call it the,Building. The building was dedicated on January 15, 1943,It is the highest-capacity office building

12、 in the world and,one of the worlds largest buildings in terms of floor area,It houses approximately 23,000 military and civilian,employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel,It has five sides, five floors above ground (plus two,basement levels), and five ring corridors per floor with a,t

13、otal of 17.5 miles (28 km) of corridors,Before the September 11, 2001 attacks, an escalator,ran from the Metro station to the Pentagon lobby,After the attack this escalator was blocked off and,later removed as part of the Pentagon Renovation,Program,10. the Lincoln Memorial,the 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 t