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1、英语美文短篇带翻译 英语美文带翻译 经典英语美文带翻译篇一the most beautifulbridgeThe 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 Northern California's 600-mile con

2、tinental 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 suspension bridge, with a span of 42

3、0_ft, and until 1959 ranked as the world's 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 miles an hour and to swin

4、g as much as 27ft.Handsome on a clear day, the bridge takes on an eerie quality when the thick white fogs pour in and hide it almost pletely.You can either drive or walk across.The drive is the more thrilling of the two options as you race under the bridge's towers, but the half-hour walk across

5、 it really gives you time to take in its enormous size and absorb the views of the city behind you and the headlands of Northern California straight ahead.Pause at the midway point and consider the seven or so suicides a month who choose this spot, 260ft up, as their jumping-off spot.Monitors of suc

6、h events speculate that victims always face the city before they leap.In 1995, when the suicide toll from the bridge had reached almost 1000, police kept the figures quiet to avoid a rush of would-be suicides going for the dubious distinction of being the thousandth person to leap.Perhaps the best-l

7、oved symbol of San Francisco, in 1987 the Golden Gate proved an auspicious place for a sunrise party when crowds gathered to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.Some quarter of a million people turned up (a third of the city's entire population); the winds were strong and the huge numbers caused

8、the bridge to buckle, but fortunately not to break.经典英语美文带翻译篇二the whole of Pearl HarborAlmost the whole of Pearl Harbor, the principal base for the US Pacific fleet (just over one hour from Waikiki, beyond the airport, on TheBus #20), is off limits to visitors.However, the surprise Japanese attack o

9、f December 7, 1941, which an official US enquiry called “the greatest military and naval disaster in our nation's history”, is memorated by a simple white memorial set above the wreck of the battleship USS Arizona, still discernible in the clear blue waters.More than 1100 of its crew who had ear

10、ned the right to sleep in late that Sunday morning by ing second in a military band petition are entombed there.Free tours to the ship operate between 8am and 3pm each day, but it can be two or three hours after you pick up your numbered ticket at the Pearl Harbor visitor center (daily 7.30am5pm) be

11、fore you are called to board the ferry across the bay.Many of the 1.5 million annual visitors are Japanese; an even-handed twenty-minute film pays tribute to “one of the most brilliantly planned and e_ecuted attacks in naval history”, and books and charts are on sale telling the Japanese side of the

12、 story.The USS Arizona memorial was partly financed by Elvis Presley's 1961 Honolulu concert, his first show after leaving the Army.经典英语美文带翻译篇三Minneapolis-St.PaulIf you want to really celebrate Halloween, try taking a trip to Anoka, Minn., a town just north of Minneapolis-St.Paul that touts itse

13、lf as the “Halloween Capital of the World.”The town's claim to Halloween fame stems from efforts to keep mischievous young people in line on the holiday.In the years after World War I, many young people, including those in Anoka (pop.18,000), enjoyed playing pranks on Halloween.But when the Anok

14、a pranksters corralled a herd of cows down Main Street in 1919, the local merchants had seen enough.The ne_t year, in 1920, the city started a Halloween festival believed to be the first ever in the United States.Organizers held parties and parades, giving idle hands something to do, and parents a c

15、hance to keep an eye on them.The tradition has been going strong ever since.In her quest for decorating ideas for the ghoulish holiday, Good Morning America's gardening and lifestyle editor Rebecca Kolls visited Anoka to join the festivities and to offer her own decorating ideas.To add a ghoulis

16、h feel to your front porch, Kolls suggests two quick and easy solutions.To make an instant ghost, just throw a sheet over a lpost.To make a quickie lit-up jack-o-lantern, cut out the back of plastic pumpkin and put it over the lpost.If you want to get a little fancier, follow Kolls' directions f

17、or creating a more elaborate jack-o-lantern:Step OneGather Materials:_-acto knife with a jigsaw bladePumpkinSet of stencils or some leavesFelt-tip penStraight pinsPetroleum jellyCandleStep TwoTo begin, remove the insides of the pumpkin.First cut off the top of the pumpkin.Then stick your hand inside

18、 to remove the seeds.Step ThreeBegin tracing the pattern.Choose a stencil (or any flat fle_ible object that you want to trace) and position it on any side of the pumpkin.To hold the stencil in place, use some straight pins.Take a felt-tip pen and trace the stencil pattern onto the pumpkin.Once this is done, remove the straight pins and the stencil to see the pattern on the pumpkin.Step FourBegin carving the design by using your _-acto knife.Be sure to stay within the lines.When the de