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美国介绍
美国位于北美洲南部，东临大西洋，西濒太平洋，北接加拿大，南靠墨西哥及墨西哥湾。
全境由东向西可分为5个地理区：东南部沿岸平原分：大西洋沿岸平原和墨西哥沿岸平原两部分。
这一地带海拔在200米以下，多数由河川冲积而成，特别是密西西比河三角洲，是世界上最大的三角洲，土质油黑，土壤肥沃。河口附近有一些沼泽地。位于这一地理区的佛罗里达半岛是美国最大的半岛阿巴拉契亚山脉位于大西洋沿岸平原的西侧，基本与海岸平行，长约2300多公里，一般海拔1000－1500米，由几条平行山脉组成。内地平原呈倒三角形，北起漫长的美国与加拿大的边界，南达大西洋沿岸平原的格兰德河一带。西部山系由西部两条山脉所组成，东部为落基山脉，西部为内华达山脉和喀斯喀特山脉。旧褶曲运动后的产物。内华达山脉的惠特尼峰海拔4418米，为美国大陆最高点，喀斯喀特山脉的雷尼尔山海拔4392米，仅次于惠特尼峰。西部山间高原由科罗拉多高原、怀俄明高原、哥伦比亚高原与大峡谷组成，为美国西部地质构造最复杂的地区。大峡谷位于亚利桑那州西北部，由一系列迂回曲折、错综复杂的山峡和深谷组成，气势雄伟，岩壁陡峭，为世界上罕见的自然景观。美国河流湖泊众多，水系复杂，从总体上可分为三大水系：凡位于落基山以东的注入大西洋的河流都称为大西洋水系，主要有密西西比河、康涅狄格河和赫得森河。其中密西西比河全长为6020公里，居世界第三位。凡注入太平洋的河流称太平洋水系。主要有科罗拉多河、哥伦比亚河、育空河等。北美洲中东部的大湖群。包括苏必利尔湖、密歇根湖、休伦湖、伊利湖和安大略湖，总面积24.5万平方公里，为世界最大的淡水水域，素有“北美地中海”之称，其中密歇根湖属美国，其余4湖为美国和加拿大共有。苏必利尔湖为世界最大的淡水湖，面积在世界湖泊中仅次于里海而居世界第二位。
美国的气候大部分地区属温带和亚热带气候，仅佛罗里达半岛南端属热带。阿拉斯加州位于北纬60至70度之间，属北极圈内的寒冷气候区；夏威夷州位于北回归线以南，属热带气候区。但由于美国幅员辽阔，地形复杂，各地气候差异较大。大体可分为5个气候区：东北部沿海的温带气候区。这一区域因受拉布拉多寒流和北方冷空气的影响，冬季寒冷，1月份平均温度为-6℃左右，夏季温和多雨，7月份平均温度为16℃左右。年平均降水量为1000毫米左右。东南部亚热带气候区。因受墨西哥湾暖流的影响，气候温暖湿润，1月份平均温度为96℃，7月份平均温度为24～27℃，年平均降水量为1500毫米。中央平原的大陆性气候区。这一区域呈大陆性气候特征，冬季寒冷，1月份平均温度为-14℃左右，夏季炎热，7月份平均气温高达27～32℃。年平均降水量为1000～1500毫米。西部高原干燥气候区。这一区域内陆性气候，高原上年温差较大，科罗拉多高原的年温差高达25℃。年平均降水量在500毫米以下，高原荒漠地带降水量不到250毫米。太平洋沿岸的海洋性气候区。这一区域冬暖夏凉，雨量充沛。1月份平均气温在4℃以上，7月份平均气温在20～22℃左右。年平均降水量为1500毫米左右。
美国的农业、矿产和森林资源丰富，在世界上占有举足轻重的作用。 美国的地理位置，气候条件及地形结构都是得天独厚的。美国农业用地(耕地和牧地)约为4.3亿公顷，占地球全部农业用地的10%左右。雨量充沛，土壤肥沃，粮食产量占世界总产量的1/5，主要农畜产品如小麦、玉米、大豆、棉花、肉类等产量均居世界第一位。
美国矿产资源丰富，铁矿石、煤炭、天然气、铅、锌、银、铀、钼、锆等产量均居世界前列，但战略资源如钛、锰、锡、钴、铬、镍等则主要依赖进口。煤炭的总储量为35996亿吨，石油总储量为240多亿吨，天然气储量为56034亿立方米。
美国拥有18亿公顷的森林，占全国土地总面积的31.5%左右，主要树种有美洲松、黄松、白松和橡树类。
The United States introduced
In North America, southern United States, are Atlantic, the West Pacific Ocean, north to Canada, south through Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico.
From east to west throughout the territory can be divided into five geographical regions: the coastal plain in southeastern: Mexico and the Atlantic coastal plain Plain two parts.
This zone elevation of 200 meters below, the majority formed by the alluvial rivers, especially the Mississippi River delta, is the world's largest delta, soil and oil, fertile soil. Estuary near some marshland. Located in the geographical area of the Florida Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the Appalachian Mountains west side of the Atlantic coastal plain, basic parallel with the coast, more than 2,300 km long, the general 1000-1500 meters altitude, mountains formed by several parallel. The Plain was inverted triangle, a long North American and Canadian borders, the Southern Atlantic coastal plains along the Rio Grande River. Western mountains from the west is composed of two mountains, east of Rocky Mountains, the western Nevada mountains and karst mountain ash. Old fold after exercise products. Whitney Nevada mountain peak elevation of 4,418 meters, the highest point for the continental United States, the karst mountain ash Rainier Hill elevation 4,392 meters, after Whitney peak. Western mountain plateau by the Colorado Plateau, Wyoming plateau, Colombia and the Grand Canyon of the plateau, the western United States for the most complex geological structure areas. Grand Canyon in northwestern Arizona, a series of convoluted twists and turns, complicated and deep valley gorge formed momentum majestic, steep rock wall, the world's rare natural landscape. Many American rivers and lakes, River complex, in general, can be divided into three main river systems: Where in Rocky Mount and into the Atlantic east of the river are called Atlantic River, a major Mississippi River, Connecticut River and He was Morikawa. The length of the Mississippi River 6,020 kilometers, ranking third in the world. Where the rivers into the Pacific said Pacific River. Major Colorado River, Columbia River, the Yukon River. In the North-eastern Great Lakes. Including Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, a total area of 245,000 square kilometers, the world's largest freshwater waters, known as the "North American Mediterranean," said one Lake Michigan is the United States, the other four lakes were for the United States and Canada. Lake Superior, the world's largest fresh water lake, the lake area in the world, second only to being the second in the world and the Caspian Sea.
The United States is the most temperate climate and subtropical climate, only the southern peninsula of Florida is tropical. Alaska in the north between 60 to 70 degrees, is the cold Arctic climate zone; Hawaii in the south of the Tropic of Cancer, is a tropical climate zone. But because the United States, the sprawling complex terrain, climate around the larger differences. Generally can be divided into five climatic zones: Northeast coastal temperate climate zones. Labrador in the region due to the cold weather and the Northern cold, cold winter, the average temperature for January 6 ℃, mild wet summer, the average temperature in July is 16 ℃. The annual average rainfall of 1,000 mm around. Southeast subtropical climate zones. Because of the Gulf Stream, warm and humid climate, the average temperature in January is 96 ° C, an average July temperature of 24 to 27 ° C with an average annual rainfall of 1,500 mm. Central Plains continental climate zones. The region was of continental climate, the cold winter, the average temperature in January is about -14 ° C, hot summer, the average temperature in July was 27 to 32 ℃. The annual average rainfall of 1,000 mm to 1,500. Western Plateau dry climate zones. Inland climate in the region, greater temperature plateau last year, the Colorado Plateau, the temperature as high as 25 ℃. The average rainfall of 500 mm in the following, desert plateau less than 250 mm of precipitation. The oceanic climate in the Pacific Rim. Winter in the region, abundant rainfall. The average temperature in January in 4 ° C above the average temperature in July 20 to 22 ℃. The annual average rainfall of 1,500 mm around.
America's agricultural, mineral and forest resources in the world occupy the pivotal role. The United States location, weather conditions and terrain are unique structure. U.S. agricultural land (cropland and pasture), about 430 million hectares of agricultural land all of the Earth about 10%. Abundant rainfall, fertile soil of the world's total grain output of 1 / 5, the main agricultural and livestock such as wheat, corn, soybean, cotton, meat production tops in the world.
The United States rich mineral resources, iron ore, coal, natural gas, lead, zinc, silver, uranium, molybdenum, zirconium, tops in the world in terms of output, but strategic resources such as titanium, manganese, tin, cobalt, chromium, nickel, mainly rely on imports. The total coal reserves of 3.5996 trillion tons, the total oil reserves of over 240 million tons, and natural gas reserves of 5.6034 trillion cubic meters.
The United States has 1.8 billion hectares of forest, of the nation's total land area of about 31.5%, with the main species of American Song, Pinus ponderosa, White Pine and Oak category.
美国位于北美洲南部，东临大西洋，西濒太平洋，北接加拿大，南靠墨西哥及墨西哥湾。
全境由东向西可分为5个地理区：东南部沿岸平原分：大西洋沿岸平原和墨西哥沿岸平原两部分。
这一地带海拔在200米以下，多数由河川冲积而成，特别是密西西比河三角洲，是世界上最大的三角洲，土质油黑，土壤肥沃。河口附近有一些沼泽地。位于这一地理区的佛罗里达半岛是美国最大的半岛阿巴拉契亚山脉位于大西洋沿岸平原的西侧，基本与海岸平行，长约2300多公里，一般海拔1000－1500米，由几条平行山脉组成。内地平原呈倒三角形，北起漫长的美国与加拿大的边界，南达大西洋沿岸平原的格兰德河一带。西部山系由西部两条山脉所组成，东部为落基山脉，西部为内华达山脉和喀斯喀特山脉。旧褶曲运动后的产物。内华达山脉的惠特尼峰海拔4418米，为美国大陆最高点，喀斯喀特山脉的雷尼尔山海拔4392米，仅次于惠特尼峰。西部山间高原由科罗拉多高原、怀俄明高原、哥伦比亚高原与大峡谷组成，为美国西部地质构造最复杂的地区。大峡谷位于亚利桑那州西北部，由一系列迂回曲折、错综复杂的山峡和深谷组成，气势雄伟，岩壁陡峭，为世界上罕见的自然景观。美国河流湖泊众多，水系复杂，从总体上可分为三大水系：凡位于落基山以东的注入大西洋的河流都称为大西洋水系，主要有密西西比河、康涅狄格河和赫得森河。其中密西西比河全长为6020公里，居世界第三位。凡注入太平洋的河流称太平洋水系。主要有科罗拉多河、哥伦比亚河、育空河等。北美洲中东部的大湖群。包括苏必利尔湖、密歇根湖、休伦湖、伊利湖和安大略湖，总面积24.5万平方公里，为世界最大的淡水水域，素有“北美地中海”之称，其中密歇根湖属美国，其余4湖为美国和加拿大共有。苏必利尔湖为世界最大的淡水湖，面积在世界湖泊中仅次于里海而居世界第二位。
美国的气候大部分地区属温带和亚热带气候，仅佛罗里达半岛南端属热带。阿拉斯加州位于北纬60至70度之间，属北极圈内的寒冷气候区；夏威夷州位于北回归线以南，属热带气候区。但由于美国幅员辽阔，地形复杂，各地气候差异较大。大体可分为5个气候区：东北部沿海的温带气候区。这一区域因受拉布拉多寒流和北方冷空气的影响，冬季寒冷，1月份平均温度为-6℃左右，夏季温和多雨，7月份平均温度为16℃左右。年平均降水量为1000毫米左右。东南部亚热带气候区。因受墨西哥湾暖流的影响，气候温暖湿润，1月份平均温度为96℃，7月份平均温度为24～27℃，年平均降水量为1500毫米。中央平原的大陆性气候区。这一区域呈大陆性气候特征，冬季寒冷，1月份平均温度为-14℃左右，夏季炎热，7月份平均气温高达27～32℃。年平均降水量为1000～1500毫米。西部高原干燥气候区。这一区域内陆性气候，高原上年温差较大，科罗拉多高原的年温差高达25℃。年平均降水量在500毫米以下，高原荒漠地带降水量不到250毫米。太平洋沿岸的海洋性气候区。这一区域冬暖夏凉，雨量充沛。1月份平均气温在4℃以上，7月份平均气温在20～22℃左右。年平均降水量为1500毫米左右。
美国的农业、矿产和森林资源丰富，在世界上占有举足轻重的作用。 美国的地理位置，气候条件及地形结构都是得天独厚的。美国农业用地(耕地和牧地)约为4.3亿公顷，占地球全部农业用地的10%左右。雨量充沛，土壤肥沃，粮食产量占世界总产量的1/5，主要农畜产品如小麦、玉米、大豆、棉花、肉类等产量均居世界第一位。
美国矿产资源丰富，铁矿石、煤炭、天然气、铅、锌、银、铀、钼、锆等产量均居世界前列，但战略资源如钛、锰、锡、钴、铬、镍等则主要依赖进口。煤炭的总储量为35996亿吨，石油总储量为240多亿吨，天然气储量为56034亿立方米。
美国拥有18亿公顷的森林，占全国土地总面积的31.5%左右，主要树种有美洲松、黄松、白松和橡树类。
The United States introduced
In North America, southern United States, are Atlantic, the West Pacific Ocean, north to Canada, south through Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico.
From east to west throughout the territory can be divided into five geographical regions: the coastal plain in southeastern: Mexico and the Atlantic coastal plain Plain two parts.
This zone elevation of 200 meters below, the majority formed by the alluvial rivers, especially the Mississippi River delta, is the world's largest delta, soil and oil, fertile soil. Estuary near some marshland. Located in the geographical area of the Florida Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the Appalachian Mountains west side of the Atlantic coastal plain, basic parallel with the coast, more than 2,300 km long, the general 1000-1500 meters altitude, mountains formed by several parallel. The Plain was inverted triangle, a long North American and Canadian borders, the Southern Atlantic coastal plains along the Rio Grande River. Western mountains from the west is composed of two mountains, east of Rocky Mountains, the western Nevada mountains and karst mountain ash. Old fold after exercise products. Whitney Nevada mountain peak elevation of 4,418 meters, the highest point for the continental United States, the karst mountain ash Rainier Hill elevation 4,392 meters, after Whitney peak. Western mountain plateau by the Colorado Plateau, Wyoming plateau, Colombia and the Grand Canyon of the plateau, the western United States for the most complex geological structure areas. Grand Canyon in northwestern Arizona, a series of convoluted twists and turns, complicated and deep valley gorge formed momentum majestic, steep rock wall, the world's rare natural landscape. Many American rivers and lakes, River complex, in general, can be divided into three main river systems: Where in Rocky Mount and into the Atlantic east of the river are called Atlantic River, a major Mississippi River, Connecticut River and He was Morikawa. The length of the Mississippi River 6,020 kilometers, ranking third in the world. Where the rivers into the Pacific said Pacific River. Major Colorado River, Columbia River, the Yukon River. In the North-eastern Great Lakes. Including Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, a total area of 245,000 square kilometers, the world's largest freshwater waters, known as the "North American Mediterranean," said one Lake Michigan is the United States, the other four lakes were for the United States and Canada. Lake Superior, the world's largest fresh water lake, the lake area in the world, second only to being the second in the world and the Caspian Sea.
The United States is the most temperate climate and subtropical climate, only the southern peninsula of Florida is tropical. Alaska in the north between 60 to 70 degrees, is the cold Arctic climate zone; Hawaii in the south of the Tropic of Cancer, is a tropical climate zone. But because the United States, the sprawling complex terrain, climate around the larger differences. Generally can be divided into five climatic zones: Northeast coastal temperate climate zones. Labrador in the region due to the cold weather and the Northern cold, cold winter, the average temperature for January 6 ℃, mild wet summer, the average temperature in July is 16 ℃. The annual average rainfall of 1,000 mm around. Southeast subtropical climate zones. Because of the Gulf Stream, warm and humid climate, the average temperature in January is 96 ° C, an average July temperature of 24 to 27 ° C with an average annual rainfall of 1,500 mm. Central Plains continental climate zones. The region was of continental climate, the cold winter, the average temperature in January is about -14 ° C, hot summer, the average temperature in July was 27 to 32 ℃. The annual average rainfall of 1,000 mm to 1,500. Western Plateau dry climate zones. Inland climate in the region, greater temperature plateau last year, the Colorado Plateau, the temperature as high as 25 ℃. The average rainfall of 500 mm in the following, desert plateau less than 250 mm of precipitation. The oceanic climate in the Pacific Rim. Winter in the region, abundant rainfall. The average temperature in January in 4 ° C above the average temperature in July 20 to 22 ℃. The annual average rainfall of 1,500 mm around.
America's agricultural, mineral and forest resources in the world occupy the pivotal role. The United States location, weather conditions and terrain are unique structure. U.S. agricultural land (cropland and pasture), about 430 million hectares of agricultural land all of the Earth about 10%. Abundant rainfall, fertile soil of the world's total grain output of 1 / 5, the main agricultural and livestock such as wheat, corn, soybean, cotton, meat production tops in the world.
The United States rich mineral resources, iron ore, coal, natural gas, lead, zinc, silver, uranium, molybdenum, zirconium, tops in the world in terms of output, but strategic resources such as titanium, manganese, tin, cobalt, chromium, nickel, mainly rely on imports. The total coal reserves of 3.5996 trillion tons, the total oil reserves of over 240 million tons, and natural gas reserves of 5.6034 trillion cubic meters.
The United States has 1.8 billion hectares of forest, of the nation's total land area of about 31.5%, with the main species of American Song, Pinus ponderosa, White Pine and Oak category.
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第1个回答 2007-10-11
漫步旧金山
San 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.
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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!”
San 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.
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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!”
