美國十大標(biāo)志性建筑中英文介紹ppt課件

1、Ten landmark buildings in the United States美國十大標(biāo)志性建筑,1,2,3,4,1. The Empire State Building,5,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 stoo

2、d as the worlds tallest building for more than forty years, from its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Centers North Tower was completed in 1972. The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World

3、.,6,King Kong,7,2. Grand Central Terminal 紐約中央火車站,8,Grand Central Terminal (GCT) is a commuter (and former intercity) railroad terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York. Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passen

4、ger rail travel, it covers 48 acres (19ha) and has 44 platforms , more than any other railroad station in the world.,9,10,3.Mount Rushmore拉什莫爾山,11,Mount Rushmore is a memorial to the birth， growth，preservation and development of the United States. Gutzon Borglum sculpted busts of Presidents George W

5、ashington，Thomas Jefferson，Theodore Roosevelt，and Abraham Lincoln high in the Black Hills to represent the first 150 years of American history.,12,4. The White House,13,The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvan

6、ia Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800.,14,Olympus Has Fallen（白宮陷落）,15,16,5. The Liberty Statue,17,“The Liberty Statue ”, bronze statues, 47 meters high, 93 meters with the base height, weighs 225 tons, the French sculptor Augustus

7、 (Auguste Bartholdi ,1834 - 1904) Design, completed in 1886, is located in New York Port Menpang the freedom of the island.,18,Vanishing the Statue of Liberty（自由女神的消失魔術(shù)） 美國超級魔術(shù)大師大衛(wèi).科波菲爾表演的魔術(shù)-自由女神消失著實(shí)讓世界大吃一驚。這一魔術(shù)謎底至今仍未能揭示。,19,6. Washington Monument,20,Washington Monument,The Washington Monument was b

8、uilt between 1848 and 1884 as a memorial to George Washington, first President of the United States.,21,Forrest Gump,22,7. the Vietnam Veterans Memorial戰(zhàn)爭墻/越南陣亡將士紀(jì)念碑,23,The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 3-acre (12,000 m) national memorial in Washington, D.C. It honors U.S. service members of the U.

9、S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War, service members who died in service in Vietnam/South East Asia, and those service members who were unaccounted for (Missing In Action) during the War.,24,25,8.Golden Gate Bridge,26,Golden Gate Bridge is one of the world-famous bridge, a bridge project a

10、s a modern miracle. It is located in California, on the Golden Gate Strait. Golden Gate Bridge is considered a symbol of San Francisco.,27,28,9.The Pentagon（五角大樓）,29,The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located at southwest of Washington.As a symbol of the US

11、military, The building was built on January 15, 1943. It is the highest-capacity office building in the world and one of the worlds largest buildings in terms of floor area. It has five floors above ground and two basement levels, as the building has a sharp of pentagram,so it was called the Pentago

12、n.,30,911,31,10. The Lincoln Memorial,32,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（奴隸制度） in the US. A craggy likeness（肖像） of Abraham Lincoln sits firmly grasping the arms of his throne-like chair，apparently deep in thought.,33,34,美國國會(huì)大廈United States Capitol,