VOA标准英语2010年-Want to Live in a Work of Art?
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(五)月
A perfect example of Wright's one-with-nature architecture is Fallingwater, a house that he built for a client in rural Pennsylvania. It was partially 1 constructed atop a waterfall.
If you ask Americans to name a famous architect, chances are they'll think first of Frank Lloyd Wright.
His minimalist buildings, designed to blend with nature, revolutionized architectural thinking.
Wright was born on a Wisconsin farm in 1867, two years after the end of the U.S. Civil War. He would live to see the Soviet 2 Union send a Sputnik satellite into space.
Wright's unconventional Hollyhock House in Los Angeles was built for an unconventional woman: Aline Barnsdall, who met the architect while leading a Chicago experimental theater company.
Even before young Frankie was born, his schoolteacher mother decided 3 that he would be an architect. Bright and curious, the lad obliged by arranging blocks and paper in the shapes of simple buildings and furniture.
Wright apprenticed 4 in Chicago under the early designers of modern skyscrapers 5.
Eventually he inherited his family's Wisconsin farm, where he built one of the world's most famous houses - Taliesin. Wright called it the supreme 6 natural house that blended so well into the surroundings that it was hard to tell where floors left off and the ground began.
He incorporated what he called his Usonian style into clients' low, flat homes that were almost works of modern art.
Avoiding fancy Victorian flourishes, Wright designed long rooms with lots of right angles and shelves that ran the length of the house. His houses were not what you would call cozy 7.
Wright's home and first studio in suburban 8 Chicago, Illinois, was not as far out - by conventional standards - as his later work.
Wright was an imaginative architect but a terrible engineer. Clients loved to show off their homes but found the austere 9 wooden furniture - which was bolted in place and difficult to move - as uncomfortable as park benches. Floor-to-ceiling windows were drafty. And worst of all, most of the roofs leaked.
Some of Wright's customers put up with it all as a sacrifice for the sake of art and design.
Mildred Rosenbaum in Florence, Alabama, said she her family sometimes grew tired of living in an architectural laboratory. She joked that the kids might get up in the middle of the night sometime and unscrew the place!
- The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
- The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- I was apprenticed to a builder when I was fourteen. 14岁时，我拜一个建筑工人为师当学徒。
- Lucius got apprenticed to a stonemason. 卢修斯成了石匠的学徒。
- A lot of skyscrapers in Manhattan are rising up to the skies. 曼哈顿有许多摩天大楼耸入云霄。
- On all sides, skyscrapers rose like jagged teeth. 四周耸起的摩天大楼参差不齐。
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- I like blankets because they are cozy.我喜欢毛毯，因为他们是舒适的。
- We spent a cozy evening chatting by the fire.我们在炉火旁聊天度过了一个舒适的晚上。
- Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
- There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。