TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(3)-英语课

时间：2018-12-05 作者：英语课 分类：TED演讲设计篇

英语课

Let me give you an example of how a city's surfaces affect the way we live in it. 我来举个例子看看一个城市的外观是如何影响人们生活方式的吧。

When I visited Salamanca in Spain, I gravitated to the Plaza 1 Mayor at all hours of the day. 当我去拜访位于西班牙的萨拉曼卡的时候，我被那里的马约尔广场深深吸引，于是一整天都呆在了那儿。
Early in the morning, sunlight rakes the facades 2, sharpening shadows, 清晨，阳光撒向整个建筑，留下清晰的阴影，
and at night, lamplight segments the buildings into hundreds of distinct areas, balconies and windows and arcades 3, 到了傍晚时分，灯光将楼房分割成了数百个截然不同的小区域，阳台、窗户还有走廊，
each one a separate pocket of visual activity. 都造就了各自独特的视觉区。
That detail and depth, that glamour 4 gives the plaza a theatrical 5 quality. 那些细节、深度和它所带来的魅力，赋予了整个广场以大剧场的视觉效果。
It becomes a stage where the generations can meet. 它变成了一个无论男女老少都可以邂逅的舞台。
You have teenagers sprawling 6 on the pavers, seniors monopolizing 7 the benches, and real life starts to look like an opera set. 你会看见少年躺在路边，老年人垄断长椅，那真实的生活就像是戏剧里所布景的那样。
The curtain goes up on Salamanca. 这就是关于萨拉曼卡的全貌。
So just because I'm talking about the exteriors 8 of buildings, not form, not function, not structure, 好了，我们讨论的是一个建筑的外观，不是它的组成、功能或是结构，
even so those surfaces give texture 9 to our lives, because buildings create the spaces around them, 但仅仅就是这些外观，给我们的生活带来了触动，因为建筑创新了周围的空间环境，
and those spaces can draw people in or push them away. 这些空间环境可以吸引人们聚集其间，或是将人们驱逐，
And the difference often has to do with the quality of those exteriors. 而这些差距往往就是由建筑外观的质量决定的。

1 plaza

n.广场，市场

They designated the new shopping centre York Plaza.他们给这个新购物中心定名为约克购物中心。
The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen.这个广场上布满了便衣警察。

2 facades

n.（房屋的）正面( facade的名词复数 )；假象，外观

Terraces of asphalt are placed by the building's south and west facades. 沥青露台位于建筑的南面和西面。来自互联网
Preserving historic buildings or keeping only their facades (or fronts) grew common. 保存历史建筑或是保持它们普通的正面增长。来自互联网

3 arcades

n.商场( arcade的名词复数 )；拱形走道（两旁有商店或娱乐设施）；连拱廊；拱形建筑物

Clothes are on sale in several shopping arcades these days. 近日一些服装店的服装正在大减价。来自轻松英语会话---联想4000词(下)
The Plaza Mayor, with its galleries and arcades, is particularly impressive. 市长大厦以其别具风格的走廊和拱廊给人留下十分深刻的印象。来自互联网

4 glamour

n.魔力，魅力；vt.迷住

Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。

5 theatrical

adj.剧场的，演戏的；做戏似的，做作的

The final scene was dismayingly lacking in theatrical effect.最后一场缺乏戏剧效果，叫人失望。
She always makes some theatrical gesture.她老在做些夸张的手势。

6 sprawling

adj.蔓生的，不规则地伸展的v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的现在分词 )；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展；四肢伸展坐着（或躺着）