75年，金门大桥风采依旧(2/2)
概述：金门大桥，这座当时悬跨长度世界第一的著名建筑最近举行了其建成75周年庆。Hints:
Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Strait
San Francisco Bay
Pacific Ocean
Joseph Strauss
San Francisco Chronicle
Irving Morrow
The Navy
The Air Force
校对：OFELIA1030
翻译：风动静泉
注解：风动静泉
组长：李奇亮
答疑：天地一沙鸥wphttp://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201206/201206080946528753557.mp3The Golden Gate Bridge is named after the Golden Gate Strait. That narrow passage of water connects the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Joseph Strauss was the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge project. Work began in 1933. The project took four years to complete.
The bridge is 2,788 meters long from one end to the other. It is 27 meters wide. Two large cables pass over the top of the bridge's towers. These structures stand 227 meters above water and 152 meters above the road. Each cable holds more than 27,500 strands of wire.
250 pairs of vertical suspender ropes connect the support cables to the suspension bridge. This is part of what enables the bridge to move up and down by nearly five meters.
The Golden Gate Bridge weighed 811,500,000 kilograms when it was completed in 1937. The San Francisco Chronicle newspaper called the finished project, "a 35-million-dollar steel harp!"
Architect Irving Morrow gets credit for the bridge's bright orange color. The Navy wanted the bridge painted in yellow and black. The Air Force had suggested red and white.
"But we are fortunate that Irving Morrow knew that that color would blend with the environment, it would contrast with the ocean and the air above, and that would also allow the art deco styling to really stand out."金门大桥是以金门海峡命名的。狭窄的水道连通了旧金山湾和太平洋。约瑟夫·施特劳斯是金门大桥工程的总工程师。大桥于1933年开始施工，历时4年完工。
金门大桥长2788米，宽27米。两条巨大的缆绳越过桥塔。这些结构离水面227米，距路面152米。每根缆绳与7500根钢缆相连。
250对悬垂钢丝把支撑钢缆与悬索桥相连。这也是大桥能够上下移动近5米的部分原因。
金门大桥在1937年完工时重8亿1千1百50万千克。《旧金山纪事报》把这项完工的大桥称为“一架3千5百万美元的钢制竖琴”。
建筑师欧文·莫罗因大桥明亮的橙色而受到称赞。海军希望把桥漆成黄色和黑色。空军则建议漆成红色和白色。
“让我们觉得很幸运的是，欧文·莫罗知道将大桥漆成橙色能够让大桥与周围的环境融合。橙色会与海洋和天空的色彩形成鲜明的对比，同时也会让大桥的艺术装饰风格变得突出。”
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