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1、Ten landmark buildings in the United States美国十大标志性建筑美国十大标志性建筑12341.The Empire State Building5TheEmpireStateBuildingisa102-storyArtDecoskyscraperinNewYorkCityattheintersectionofFifthAvenueandWest34thStreet.ItsnameisderivedfromthenicknameforthestateofNewYork.Itstoodastheworldstallestbuildingformoretha

2、nfortyyears,fromitscompletionin1931untilconstructionoftheWorldTradeCentersNorthTowerwascompletedin1972.TheEmpireStateBuildinghasbeennamedbytheAmericanSocietyofCivilEngineersasoneoftheSevenWondersoftheModernWorld.6King Kong72.Grand Central Terminal 纽约中央火车站纽约中央火车站8GrandCentralTerminal(GCT)isacommuter(

3、andformerintercity)railroadterminalat42ndStreetandParkAvenueinMidtownManhattaninNewYork.BuiltbyandnamedfortheNewYorkCentralRailroadintheheydayofAmericanlong-distancepassengerrailtravel,itcovers48acres(19ha)andhas44platforms,morethananyotherrailroadstationintheworld.9103.Mount Rushmore拉什莫尔山拉什莫尔山11Mou

4、ntRushmoreisamemorialtothebirth，growth，preservationanddevelopmentoftheUnitedStates.GutzonBorglumsculptedbustsofPresidentsGeorgeWashington，ThomasJefferson，TheodoreRoosevelt，andAbrahamLincolnhighintheBlackHillstorepresentthefirst150yearsofAmericanhistory.124.The White House13TheWhiteHouseistheofficial

5、residenceandprincipalworkplaceofthePresidentoftheUnitedStates,locatedat1600PennsylvaniaAvenueNWinWashington,D.C.IthasbeentheresidenceofeveryU.S.presidentsinceJohnAdamsin1800.14Olympus Has Fallen（白宫陷落）15165.The Liberty Statue17“TheLibertyStatue”,bronzestatues,47metershigh,93meterswiththebaseheight,we

6、ighs225tons,theFrenchsculptorAugustus(AugusteBartholdi,1834-1904)Design,completedin1886,islocatedinNewYorkPortMenpangthefreedomoftheisland.18Vanishing the Statue of Liberty（自由女神的消失魔术）美国超级魔术大师大卫.科波菲尔表演的魔术-自由女神消失着实让世界大吃一惊。这一魔术谜底至今仍未能揭示。196.Washington Monument20Washington MonumentTheWashingtonMonumentw

7、asbuiltbetween1848and1884asamemorialtoGeorgeWashington,firstPresidentoftheUnitedStates.21Forrest Gump227.the Vietnam Veterans Memorial战争墙战争墙/越南阵亡将士纪念碑越南阵亡将士纪念碑23TheVietnam Veterans Memorialisa3-acre(12,000m)nationalmemorialinWashington,D.C.IthonorsU.S.servicemembersoftheU.S.armedforceswhofoughtinthe

8、VietnamWar,servicememberswhodiedinserviceinVietnam/SouthEastAsia,andthoseservicememberswhowereunaccountedfor(MissingInAction)duringtheWar.24258.Golden Gate Bridge26GoldenGateBridgeisoneoftheworld-famousbridge,abridgeprojectasamodernmiracle.ItislocatedinCalifornia,ontheGoldenGateStrait.GoldenGateBrid

9、geisconsideredasymbolofSanFrancisco.27289.The Pentagon（五角大楼）（五角大楼）29ThePentagonistheheadquartersoftheUnitedStatesDepartmentofDefense,locatedatsouthwestofWashington.AsasymboloftheUSmilitary,ThebuildingwasbuiltonJanuary15,1943.Itisthehighest-capacityofficebuildingintheworldandoneoftheworldslargestbuil

10、dingsintermsoffloorarea.Ithasfivefloorsabovegroundandtwobasementlevels,asthebuildinghasasharpofpentagram,soitwascalledthePentagon.309113110.The Lincoln Memorial 32TheLincolnMemorialisafittingtributetothemanwhoheldthecountrytogetherduringthecivilwarandtherebyputanendtoslavery（奴隶制度）intheUS.Acraggylikeness（肖像）ofAbrahamLincolnsitsfirmlygraspingthearmsofhisthrone-likechair，apparentlydeepinthought.3334美国国会大厦UnitedStatesCapitol林肯纪念堂TheLincolnMemorial白宫TheWhiteHouse华盛顿纪念碑WashingtonMonument杰弗逊纪念堂ThomasJeffersonMemorial35华盛顿纪念碑WashingtonMonument林肯纪念堂美国国会大厦UnitedStatesCapitol36lThatsalllThankyou!37