旧金山英语作文

旧金山介绍英文版San FranciscoSan Francisco, open your Golden Gate, sang the girl in the theatre. She never finished her song. The date was 18th April, 1906. The earth shook and the roof suddenly divided, buildings crashed to the ground and people rushed out into the streets. The dreadful earthquake destroyed the city that had grown up when men discovered gold in the deserts of California. But today the streets of San Francisco stretch over more than forty steep hills, rising like huge cliffs above the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.The best way to see this splendid city, where Spanish people were the first to make their homes, is to take one of the old cable cars which run along the nine main avenues. Fares are cheap; they have not risen, I'm told, for almost a hundred years.You leave the palm trees in Union Square --- the heart of San Francisco --- and from the shop signs and the faces around you, you will notice that in the city live people from many nations --- Austrians, Italians,Chinese and others --- giving each part a special character. More Chinese live in China Town than in any other part of the world outside China. Here, with Chinese restaurants, Chinese post-boxes, and even odd telephone-boxes that look like pagodas, it is easy to feel you are in China itself.Fisherman's Wharf, a place all foreigners want to see, is at the end of the ride. You get out, pause perhaps to help the other travellers to swing the cable car on its turntable (a city custom), and then set out to find a table in one of the gay little restaurants beside the harbour. As you enjoy the fresh Pacific sea food you can admire the bright red paint of the Golden Gate Bridge in the harbour and watch the traffic crossing beneath the tall towers on its way to the pretty village of Tiberon. When you've finished your meal, you may decide to take aboat-trip around the bay to look at the sights. You can stare, for example, at the famous, now empty, prison of Alcatraz. Then why not go to the fishing village of Sansalito --- a little like London's Chelsea or New York's Greenwich Village --- to see people painting and to look at their pictures. You will be able to enjoy a view of the city from the sea and take pleasure in the soft red and blue Spanish-type houses shining in the bright Pacific light. If you have time you might like to go by bus to Carmel, a hundred miles south of San Francisco, where you will discover a wild and wonderful coast with high cliffs.Although the people of San Francisco prefer riding to walking, you may like to climb up the steep streets. Handrails are provided so that you can pull yourself up. You can enjoy the splendid shops, the view from Telegraph Hill, the houses with fountains and garden: You can also look at the Stage Coach, a familiar sight from Western films, which is in the window of the Wells Fargo Bank in Montgomery Street, near the business centre of the city.(点击可看大图)I expect you'll notice that all over the city the cars are left with their wheels turned towards the side walk so that they can't roll away. Wherever you walk you'll find it hard to lose yourself. At most of the important crossings there is a plan of the streets (Lombard Street; Ohio Street; Market Street; and so on)cut into the stone of the sidewalk so that you can look down and see where you are.After so much walking you may feel tired and sticky and ready for a swim. There is often a thick morning mist from the sea in summer, but the weather can be very hot. Yet nobody swims in the Pacific. It is too risky. There are miles and miles of smooth hard sand, empty because of sharks --- those dreadful big man-eating fish --- and the high and dangerous waves of the sea. So take a street car from the city centre to the wonderful swimming pool on the edge of the ocean. Afterwards you can go to the neighbouring zoo.Later, while you wait to catch a street car returning to your hotel, you may even see the sign “Doggy Diner” --- a restaurant for dogs!But what about meals for people? As in most of the big cities, the restaurants offer delicious food from almost every country. You could have dinner in Chinatown and then, on the way back to your hotel, catch the last cable car after midnight: it's not unusual for passengers who arrive late to have to hang on to the sides of the last car for the whole journey.On Sundays parents often take their children to look at the strange trees in the pretty Japanese Tea Garden in the huge spaces of Golden Gate Park.With its hot sun and gay night life, San Francisco is a fine place to live in or to visit. It is the most European of all American cities and you'll be sure to grow fond of it instantly. So tell yourself in the words of a song from the last century, “San Francisco, here I come!”“旧金山，敞开你的金门吧!”剧院里的那位歌女演唱道。她没有唱完她的歌。这一天是1906年4月18日，大地震动，屋顶突然分裂，高楼大厦轰然坍倒，人们纷纷从屋里逃出，冲上街头。在加利福尼亚州沙漠里发现金矿后成长起来的这座城市，就这样被可怕的地震摧毁了。但时至今日，旧金山的街道四处延伸；遍布四十多座陡峭的小山，那些小山像悬崖峭壁般高耸于太平洋蓝色的海域之上。要游览这座西班牙人最早在此落户的灿烂的城市，最好的办法是乘坐穿越九条主要大街的旧式缆车。缆车取费低廉，据说近百年来一直没涨过价。联合广场是旧金山的中心，如果你离开广场的棕榈树，你就会根据店铺的招牌和周围人们的脸庞，注意到这座城市里居住着来自许多国家的人——奥地利人、意大利人、中国人和其他国家的人——这就使每一地段呈现出各自的特色。有许多中国人住在唐人街，其人数比中国本土之外世界其他任何地方的华人都多。这里有中国风味的餐馆、中国式的邮筒，甚至还有形如宝塔的奇异的电话亭。这种情况使你很容易感到仿佛是置身于中国境内了。国外游客都想访问一下缆车的终点站——渔民之埠。车抵终点站，你下车后，也可能会暂时停步，遵照当地的风俗，帮助其他游客推动转车台上的缆车，使之掉头转向，然后移步到码头旁边的一家装饰华丽的小饭馆里找一个座位坐下。当你品尝太平洋的海鲜时，你可以观赏海港里漆着鲜红颜色的金门大桥，观看林立的高塔下通往美丽的村庄“蒂伯龙”的交通线上络绎不绝的车辆。餐后，你可能决定乘坐游艇绕着海湾观赏风景。比如你可以凝视遐迩闻名但现已空无一人的阿尔卡特拉兹监狱。接着，你何不去游玩一下桑萨利托渔村呢?那里有点像伦敦的切尔西区，也有些象纽约的格林威治村。有些人在渔村里绘画，你不妨去看看，观赏一下他们的作品。那时你还可以从海上远眺市容，饱览在太平洋上明媚的阳光照耀下闪闪发光的色调柔和、红蓝色的西班牙式房屋。如果有时间，你也许还想坐公共汽车前往旧金山以南一百英里的卡梅尔。在那里你会发现一片峭壁高耸、荒凉但引人入胜的海岸。虽然旧金山人喜欢乘车代步，可是你也许会喜欢爬上坡度很大的街道。你可以抓住栏杆攀登，欣赏那些绚丽多彩的店铺，从电报山上眺望美景，饱览带有喷泉和花园的住宅。你还可以去看看陈列在韦尔斯法戈银行橱窗里的、在西部电影里常见的驿站马车，这家银行座落在靠近城市商业中心的蒙哥马利大街。我想你会注意到，全市的汽车在停靠时为了防止滑动，车轮总是向着人行道的。还有，你无论走到哪里，都不容易迷路。在大多数的主要交叉路口，都有一幅街道(朗巴德街、俄亥俄街、市场街等等)的详图刻在人行道的石头上。只要你低头看一下，就知道自己所在的位置了。长时间走动之后，你可能感到疲倦，很不舒服，想要游泳。这里的夏季清晨，海上往往吹来浓雾，但气候可能十分炎热。然而，谁也不敢在太平洋里游泳。那样太危险了。海边有连绵许多英里长的平坦坚硬的沙滩，渺无人迹，因为那里有吃人的凶猛可怕的大鲨鱼，还有海上卷起的汹涌巨浪。所以你还是从中心乘电车到太平洋岸边出色的游泳池去吧。嗣后，你可以逛一下附近的动物园。接着，在你等候电车回旅舍的时候，还可能会看到“狗饭店”的招牌——一家专门为狗服务的餐馆!�可是供应旅客的饭菜是什么呢?这里的餐馆和大多数大城市的餐馆一样，几乎世界各国的美味佳肴应有尽有。你不妨在唐人街就餐，饭后赶午夜以后的末班缆车返回旅舍，晚到的乘客常常不得不抓着末班缆车的车侧走完全程。每逢星期天，家长们往往带着孩子去参观金门公园占很大面积的美丽的日本茶场，观赏茶场里那些稀奇古怪的树木。旧金山白天骄阳当空，夜生活热闹繁华，是个适宜于居住和旅游的好地方。它是美国所有城市中最富欧洲色彩的一个城市，你肯定是会很快就喜爱它的。因此请你默念十九世纪一首歌曲中这样的词句吧：“旧金山，我到你的身边来了!”

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Room One: San Francisco in the New CenturyThe dawn of the twentieth century was a time of great hope and prosperity in Northern California. Everyone was looking forward to the new century that would surely be the greatest in the American West's very short history. Few looked backward to the Native American tales of movements of the earth, the fires that had destroyed San Francisco numerous times in mid-nineteenth century, and the destructive earthquakes of 1865 and 1868 in the Bay Area. There were a few muted warnings. A catalogue of prior earthquakes in California was published in 1898 by the Smithsonian Institution, but few libraries bothered to stock it. The fire chief wanted a backup water system and the insurance industry thought it was "inevitable" that the city would again burn to the ground. Life went blithely on in the "queen city" of the West. With a population of 400,000, San Francisco was the largest city in California and the economic capital of the West. The buildings were the tallest, the restaurants the finest, the entertainment, the most risque, and the factories the most productive. Not all were well off, however. One in three inhabitants were foreign born. Immigrants from southern Europe and Asia were swelling the population and providing cheap labor. On the evening of April 17, 1906 the greatest single display of visible wealth in the West adorned the audience assembled at the Grand Opera House on Mission Street to hear the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso sing. The weather was unusually balmy. Carriages and a few belching automobiles arrived at the entrance and disgorged their passengers. The jewels sparkled. The fashionable, high-necked gowns were vibrant. The men traded jests in the foyer while smoking between acts. Supper was taken after the opera. A newspaper reporter trudging home in the early morning hours of Wednesday, April 18th noticed that the horses stabled at Powell and Mason Streets seemed unusually restless. Grand Opera: The 1906 SeasonSan Francisco had long been a haven for creativity, as literature, photography, fine arts, and music all flourished there. The economic boom of the 1890s lent the bohemian city a gaiety that did not disappear at the turn of the century: With fortunes made and money flowing, wealthier San Franciscans turned their attention to culture. They were determined to refine their city's reputation and make it a recognized center for the arts. Their efforts were rewarded with the engagement of the Metropolitan Opera Company's production of Bizet's "Carmen." Staged the evening of April 17, 1906 at the Grand Opera House on Mission Street, "Carmen" was the most exciting cultural event of the season. The renowned tenor Enrico Caruso played the character of Don Jose; famed soprano Olive Fremstad was cast in the title role. The Grand Opera House program for its 1906 season reflected the economic prosperity and high level of cultural interest prevalent in San Francisco at the time. Its cover is a stylish rendering of a couple in evening clothes, the woman in a long white dress and veil and the man in top hat and dress suit. The profusion of advertisements for material goods highlight the city's burgeoning consumer demands. Wealthy citizens had the funds, leisure, and inclination to don their best and patronize highbrow entertainment. Tickets to that evening's performance were expensive and difficult to find; their stubs marked both social standing and seat reservationsWealth and the WealthyMark Hopkins and Leland Stanford were one half of "The Big Four," industrial barons who made their fortunes through railroads (the other two members were Charles Crocker and Collis P. Huntington). During the 1870s, Stanford and Hopkins built enormous, ostentatious mansions on San Francisco's Nob Hill, a neighborhood dominated by the very rich. The two men personified San Francisco's easy-come economy, and they intended their houses as public monuments to their wealth and power. Completed in 1876, Stanford's residence consisted of 50 rooms and housed an art collection worth an estimated $2 million. Next door was the Hopkins home. Finished in 1878 after Hopkins' death, it was an artless melange of architectural styles that featured a profusion of spires, turrets, and other gingerbread details. Stanford and Hopkins were both long dead by 1906, but their mansions remained as examples of the conspicuous consumption that colored San Francisco's already colorful reputation. On a more somber note, the buildings also symbolized the wide gap between social classes that only a great calamity could possibly narrow. The Growth in PopulationDue to increased foreign immigration and the rise of domestic industry, American cities experienced a population boom in the late 19th century. San Francisco was no exception. Its population had been increasing exponentially since the Gold Rush. There were less than 35,000 residents in 1852; by 1900, the US Census counted nearly 343,000. One of the leading factors of that growth was a steady stream of Chinese immigration during the latter half of the century. Not only did this phenomenon raise San Francisco's population, it inspired an anti-Chinese labor movement whose broad charges were illustrated by this lithograph. Autographed by "C.M." and housed in the Bancroft Library's Robert Honeyman Collection, this piece used the "bird's-eye view" style common at the time. From a contrived vantagepoint on an unidentified hill, it shows San Francisco as caught in a triangle of Chinese immigration – Vancouver, BC being one point of entry, the docks of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. the other. The city teems with Chinese who occupy all manner of industrial works, and across the sea looms the threat of China, illustrated as a sun-like visage with Chinese facial features and a queue. The message is clear: hundreds of miles of land and leagues of ocean were not barriers enough to thwart mass Chinese immigration. Moreover, it proved extremely popular, as the political movement culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Yet the Chinese remained an integral part of the city's population and helped San Francisco to become the largest urban center in California. Politics and PoliticiansLarge cities across America enjoyed strong-willed, if not nefarious, politicians. San Francisco enjoyed a different twist on this theme, a man behind the scenes. Of French and Jewish descent, Abraham Ruef was an intelligent, shrewd man who had been involved in politics for most of his adult life. He joined the Republican Party at the age of 21, but became disillusioned with the confines of formal party structure. Turning toward a more lucrative career as legal counsel for labor unions and other private clients, Ruef saw the advantage of matching politics with parallel enterprises. He established the Union Labor Party in 1901 and plucked Eugene Schmitz from the orchestra pit, successfully installing the former conductor as the head of a puppet city government. Schmitz may have occupied the Mayor's seat, but Ruef was the real power behind the throne, directing his party to electoral victories in 1903 and 1905. Ruef and his followers declared that they stood for the common man against institutional elitism. Their opponents charged that the Union Labor Party meant graft and corruption. Yet as long as the city prospered, there seemed little Democratic and Republican leaders could do. So Many Places to Stay!San Francisco had been a destination since 1849 and the tradition continued during the following decades. Drawn to its beautiful location, climate, and economic opportunities, visitors and transplants alike flocked to the city. They often stayed in one of the beautiful high-rise hotels located downtown. Opened in 1904 and named after the patron saint of San Francisco, the Hotel St. Francis was one of the city's newest buildings. With "an army of well-trained employees under chefs whose names are famous wherever Epicurus is revered," it catered to the whims of the wealthy traveler. According to this souvenir book, the St. Francis offered Tyrolean-themed cuisine, a 4000-volume library, and special tours of Chinatown, among other amenities. The opulence of the Union Square hotel reflected the city's prosperity on the eve of the earthquake and fire. 全部内容：（点击左边红色“Room One Contents”下面的部分一一阅读）

The Golden Gate Bridge (这个大桥叫“金门大桥”） The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning over 1,280 meters to connect San Fransisco to the surrounding northern Californian counties. The bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its completion in 1937 up until 1964. The bridge stands 67 meters above the water, with its towers reaching 227 meters above the water. The live load capacity is 1,814.4 kg/lineal foot with a maximum center span downward deflection of 3.3 meters. Each of the 2 main support cables has a diameter of 0.92 meters and is 2,332 meters long. 129,000 kilometers of wire is used in each cable. The Golden Gate Bridge took 4 years to build. Glare-free goggles and an early version of hard hats were used for the first time in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Safety nets were also suspended below the bridge from end to end. The nets saved the lives of 19 men who were from then on known as members of the Half Way to Hell Club. Although 11 men died during the construction of the bridge, this was a distinct improvement over most construction projects of the time. The bridge has been closed on 3 occasions due to extremely high wind speeds, but withstood the onslaughts all 3 times. In 1989 an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale forced the San Fransisco / Oakland Bay Bridge to close, but the Golden Gate Bridge was able to stay open. The original paint on the Golden Gate Bridge lasted 27 years until 1965 when concern over the high salt and moisture content in the air became a concern. In 1969 a sand blasting project was initiated to remove the old lead based paint and to repair corrosion. A lead-free primer and top coat were then applied to protect the bridge from corrosion and adhere to environmental regulations. The project was completed in 1996. Recent updates to the Golden Gate Bridge include Seismic Refitting, the installation of a movable barrier between oncoming lanes of traffic, a safety railing, suicide deterrent screens, and cable restoration. 翻译： 金 门 大 桥 金门大桥是跨度超过1280m的悬索桥，它把旧金山和加利副尼亚北部周围的县连接起来，该桥从1937年建成到1964年一直是当时世界上最长的悬索桥。它距离水面67m，其塔高出水面达到227m。活载承载能力为18144kpa/inch，最大中间跨度向下倾斜3.3m。两个支撑的主索每个直径0.92m，长2332m，每个用了129000千米的金属丝。金门大桥的施工用了4年时间。 金门大桥在早期施工阶段采用了（Glare-free goggles and an early version of hard hats ？）施工法，从桥的这端到那端安全网也悬挂在桥的下面，该网救了从那以后被看作是通过公路去地狱俱乐部的19个人的命，但是仍有11人在施工过程中丧生，这相对那时许多建筑工程是一个很明显的进步。 金门大桥由于很大的风速而关闭过3次，但是抵住了所有3次冲击。在1989年一次测量为里氏7.1级地震迫使旧金山/奥克兰海湾桥关闭，然而金门大桥一直能够保持畅通。 金门大桥上原来的油漆持续了27年，一直到1965年考虑到空气中过高的盐分和潮湿的厉害关系，在1969年一个沙滩爆破项目被发动来移除旧的铅装置油漆，并且修补腐蚀的地方。一个释放的铅雷管和顶层油漆随后被装置来保护桥免于侵蚀，并且符合环境规章。该工程于1996年完成。 近来对金门大桥更新材料包括地震的改装，该装置是一个在将来交通的通道、安全的扶手、自杀威慑屏和缆索复位之间可活动的栅栏。

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San Francisco San Francisco is an exciting and beautiful city. It rises on a steep, hilly peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay in western California. The strait between these two bodies of water is known as the Golden Gate. San Francisco Bay is one of the finest natural harbors in the world. Its port facilities handle much of the West Coast's import and export trade. And the city of San Francisco is often regarded as the gateway to the Far East.San Francisco is important in both banking and insurance. It is also the western headquarters of the communications industry, as well as a variety of manufacturing and processing businesses.San Francisco is the home of about 680,000 people. Together with Oakland, across the bay, it is the center of a metropolitan area of five times that number. San Francisco's population long has been a cross section of the world's. People came from all over the globe, from the east and west, and settled in this cosmopolitan city. More than 60,000 of its citizens are of Chinese origin. Russian Hill was named for the nationality of the people who lived there in early days. There are also many persons of German, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Filipino, and English origin.From the Twin Peaks, which dominate the center of the city, one looks straight down Market Street to the bay. Another magnificent view is from Coit Memorial Tower on Telephone Hill. From there it is possible to see the entrance to the bay, the cities on its eastern side, and the great span of the Golden Gate Bridge.San Francisco's famous Chinatown -- the largest in the United States -- is along Grant Avenue and nearby streets. It is a colorful district of Chinese shops, restaurants, and temples.Institutions of higher education in the city include San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco. The original campus of the University of California is in Berkeley, just across the bay. Among the city's notable museums are the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, located in a spectacular setting overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and the Museum of Modern Art, in the downtown Civic Center.