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CHAPTER 6—Modern Architecture
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If a foreign tourist, ignorant of his whereabouts, were to sail about sunset up our spacious1 bay and view for the first time the eccentric sky-line of lower New York, he would rub his eyes and wonder if they were not playing him a trick, for distance and twilight2 lend the chaotic3 masses around the Battery a certain wild grace suggestive of Titan strongholds or prehistoric4 abodes5 of Wotan, rather than the business part of a practical modern city.
“But,” as John Drew used to say in The Masked Ball, “what a difference in the morning!” when a visit to his banker takes the new arrival down to Wall Street, and our uncompromising American daylight dispels6 his illusions.
Years ago spiritual Arthur Gilman mourned over the decay of architecture in New York and pointed7 out that Stewart’s shop, at Tenth Street, bore about the same relation to Ictinus’ noble art as an iron cooking stove! It is well death removed the Boston critic before our city entered into its present Brobdingnagian phase. If he considered that Stewart’s and the Fifth Avenue Hotel failed in artistic8 beauty, what would have been his opinion of the graceless piles that crowd our island to-day, beside which those older buildings seem almost classical in their simplicity9?
One hardly dares to think what impression a student familiar with the symmetry of Old World structures must receive on arriving for the first time, let us say, at the Bowling10 Green, for the truth would then dawn upon him that what appeared from a distance to be the ground level of the island was in reality the roof line of average four-story buildings, from among which the keeps and campaniles that had so pleased him (when viewed from the Narrows) rise like gigantic weeds gone to seed in a field of grass.
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住所( abode的名词复数 ); 公寓; (在某地的)暂住; 逗留 | |
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v.驱散,赶跑( dispel的第三人称单数 ) | |
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adj.艺术(家)的,美术(家)的;善于艺术创作的 | |
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heterogeneous
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belittle
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v.轻视,小看,贬低 | |
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gems
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growth; economy; management; and customer satisfaction 增长 | |
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atlases
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地图集( atlas的名词复数 ) | |
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atlas
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adorned
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[计]被修饰的 | |
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binder
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ingenuity
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n.别出心裁;善于发明创造 | |
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naively
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grotesque
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adj.怪诞的,丑陋的;n.怪诞的图案,怪人(物) | |
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rudiments
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n.基础知识,入门 | |
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n.(指美国、加拿大的钱币)一角 | |
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adj.(言行)谨慎的;慎重的;有判断力的 | |
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colonnade
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n.柱廊 | |
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dome
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n.圆屋顶,拱顶 | |
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n.圆屋顶( dome的名词复数 );像圆屋顶一样的东西;圆顶体育场 | |
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pagoda
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n.宝塔(尤指印度和远东的多层宝塔),(印度教或佛教的)塔式庙宇 | |
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pagodas
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塔,宝塔( pagoda的名词复数 ) | |
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turrets
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(六角)转台( turret的名词复数 ); (战舰和坦克等上的)转动炮塔; (摄影机等上的)镜头转台; (旧时攻城用的)塔车 | |
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adornment
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n.装饰;装饰品 | |
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vt.弄脏(用吸墨纸)吸干;n.污点,污渍 | |
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n.圣地,神龛,庙;v.将...置于神龛内,把...奉为神圣 | |
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n.冒犯者,违反者,犯罪者 | |
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adj.精美的;敏锐的;剧烈的,感觉强烈的 | |
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likeness
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n.相像,相似(之处) | |
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adv. (美skillfully)熟练地 | |
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adj.谦卑的,恭顺的;地位低下的;v.降低,贬低 | |
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utensil
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n.器皿,用具 | |
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delightful
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monograms
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slabs
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n.厚板,平板,厚片( slab的名词复数 );厚胶片 | |
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milestones
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n.重要事件( milestone的名词复数 );重要阶段;转折点;里程碑 | |
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portico
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n.柱廊,门廊 | |
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parlor
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n.店铺,营业室;会客室,客厅 | |
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inconvenient
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adj.不方便的,令人感到麻烦的 | |
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战胜( surmount的过去式和过去分词 ); 克服(困难); 居于…之上; 在…顶上 | |
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interred
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v.埋,葬( inter的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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rococo
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n.洛可可;adj.过分修饰的 | |
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pretences
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n.假装( pretence的名词复数 );作假;自命;自称 | |
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veneer
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n.(墙上的)饰面,虚饰 | |
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granite
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zinc
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incongruity
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n.不协调,不一致 | |
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corps
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n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组 | |
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annex
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vt.兼并,吞并;n.附属建筑物 | |
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reverts
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恢复( revert的第三人称单数 ); 重提; 回到…上; 归还 | |
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emblematical
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adj.标志的,象征的,典型的 | |
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accordion
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n.手风琴;adj.可折叠的 | |
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peculiar
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adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的 | |
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int.唉(表示悲伤、忧愁、恐惧等) | |
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n.所有人;业主;经营者 | |
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sculptors
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雕刻家,雕塑家( sculptor的名词复数 ); [天]玉夫座 | |
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ornament
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狂喜( ecstasy的名词复数 ); 出神; 入迷; 迷幻药 | |
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