去纽波特看看美国富人的生活吧(1/2)
Hints:F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Rich Boy"
Newport
Rhode Island
Atlantic Ocean
'90s
The Breakers
Cornelius Vanderbilt
William
tapestry
adorn
组长：haifaforever
校对：jessie319
翻译&注解：未丸宸
答疑：西碧儿的琴http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201207/201207050851019067900.mp3In F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1926 short story "The Rich Boy", a character famously remarked, "The rich are different from you and me". To this day, Americans love to peek into the lives and enclaves of the very rich.
They include one of the greatest concentrations of magnificent homes in the world, on an island in America's smallest state. It's Newport, Rhode Island, the nation's first summer resort. Newport was founded in 1639 by settlers seeking religious freedom. It soon prospered as a seaport. Gradually, wealthy landowners from the American South sought relief from the summertime heat and built grand homes there, on bluffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. But these were mere huts compared with what was to come. In the 1880s and '90s, wealthy industrialists began creating what they called "summer cottages" in Newport. Cottages on the scale of European castles. Most famous was The Breakers, built by Cornelius Vanderbilt in the style of an Italian palace. And as a wedding present to his bride, Vanderbilt's brother, William, erected an even more lavish home out of marble. Gold leaf, fine tapestries and elaborate silver service adorned the modern palaces that were built all across town.在菲茨杰拉德的1926年的短篇小说《富有的男孩》中，一个人物说过这样一句名言：“我和你的富有是不同的。”在今天，美国人喜欢窥探有钱人的生活还有圈子。在美国最小的州，有最宏伟住宅集合之一。纽波特，罗得岛是这个国家第一个避暑圣地。纽波特由寻找宗教自由的人们建于1639年，并且很快的作为一个海港而繁荣起来。渐渐地，美国南部富裕的地主们前来避暑，并且在那里修建了可以俯瞰大西洋的大房子。但是，比起将来的房子，这些仅仅是小屋而已。在19世纪80年代和90年代，富裕的实业家们开始在纽波特，按欧式古堡的规模建造“避暑山庄”。最著名的是由范德比尔特的意大利风格的“听涛山庄”。范德比尔特的兄弟，威廉用大理石建造了一个更豪华的房子，作为结婚礼物送给他的新娘。金箔，精致的挂毯，还有精心制作的银器装点了这个现代化的横跨城镇的宫殿。
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