金门大桥 The Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge, completed after more than four years of construction at a cost of $35 million, is a visitor attraction recognized around the world.The GGB opened to vehicular traffic on May 28, 1937 at twelve o'clock noon, ahead of schedule and under budget, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a telegraph key in the White House announcing the event.
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Statue of Liberty Liberty Enlightening the World, known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty, is a statue given to the United States by France in 1885, standing at Liberty Island in the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship between the two nations. The sculptor was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. Gustave Eiffel, the designer of the Eiffel Tower, engineered the internal structure. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue's construction and adoption of the Repoussé technique. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable icons of the U.S. worldwide,[1] and, in a more general sense, represents liberty and escape from oppression. The Statue of Liberty was, from 1886 until the Jet age, often the first glimpse of the United States for millions of immigrants after ocean voyages from Europe. It's said that il Sancarlone or the Colossus of Rhodeiberty
• 自由女神像全名为“自由 女神铜像国家纪念碑”， 正式名称是“照耀世界的 自由女神”，于1886年 10月28日矗立在美国纽 约市海港内的自由岛的哈 德逊河口附近，被誉为美 国的象征，创作者是弗雷 德里克· 奥古斯特· 巴托尔 迪。1984年，它被列入 世界遗产名录。
金门大桥是世界著名的桥梁之一，是近代桥梁工程的一项奇迹。大桥 雄峙于美国加利福尼亚州宽1900多米的金门海峡之上，历时4年和10 万多吨钢材，耗资达3550万美元建成，由史特劳斯设计。因其历史价 值，于2007年由英、美两国合拍成同名纪录片。
华尔街Wall Street
• Wall Street is the name of a narrow street in lower Manhattan in New York City, running east from Broadway downhill to the East River. Considered to be the historical heart of the Financial District, it was the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange. The phrase "Wall Street" is also used as a metonym to refer to American financial markets and financial institutions as a whole. Most New York financial firms are no longer headquartered on Wall Street, but elsewhere in lower or midtown Manhattan, Fairfield County, Connecticut, or New Jersey. JPMorgan Chase, the last major holdout, sold its headquarters tower at 60 Wall Street to Deutsche Bank in November 2001.
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• 华尔街是纽约市曼哈顿区南部从百老汇路延伸到东河的一条大街道的 名字，全长仅三分之一英里，宽仅11米，是英文“墙街”的音译。街 道狭窄而短，从百老汇到东河仅有7个街段，却以“美国的金融中心” 闻名于世。美国摩根财阀、洛克菲勒石油大王和杜邦财团等开设的银 行、保险、航运、铁路等公司的经理处集中于此。著名的纽约证券交 易所也在这里，至今仍是几个主要交易所的总部：如纳斯达克、美国 证券交易所、纽约期货交易所等。“华尔街”一词现已超越这条街道 本身，成为附近区域的代称，亦可指对整个美国经济具有影响力的金 融市场和金融机构。