VOA慢速英語: 弗蘭克·勞埃德·賴特建筑被提名為世界遺產(chǎn)名錄

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Nominated for World Heritage List
弗蘭克·勞埃德·賴特建筑被提名為世界遺產(chǎn)目錄

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West building in Scottsdale, Arizona. The house was the architect's winter home and studio.

Frank Lloyd Wright is often called the father of American modern architecture. He designed buildings and homes across the United States for more than 70 years. He created most of his works from 1900 through the 1950s, but his open-living spaces and imaginative designs still appear very modern today.
弗蘭克·勞埃德·賴特被稱為美國現(xiàn)代建筑之父。他為美國設(shè)計了70多年的建筑和房屋。他的大部分創(chuàng)作是在20世紀初到20世紀50年代完成的，但是他開闊居住空間和充滿想象的設(shè)計在今天仍然非常流行。
Last week, the United States nominated 10 of his buildings for the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization – or UNESCO – World Heritage List. The World Heritage List recognizes the most important cultural and natural sites worldwide.
上周，美國向聯(lián)合國教科文組織《世界遺產(chǎn)名錄》提名了他的10項建筑設(shè)計。《世界遺產(chǎn)名錄》認可世界上最重要的文化景觀和自然景觀。
The 10 properties included in the United States' proposal, titled "Key Works of Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright," were built between 1906 and 1969. They include several of his personal homes and studios, churches, government buildings, private residences, and one very famous museum – New York City's Guggenheim Museum.
美國申報的這十項建筑項目名為“弗蘭克·勞埃德·賴特的現(xiàn)代主要作品”這些建筑在1906年到1969年間建成。這些建筑包括他個人的房子、工作室、教堂、政府建筑、私人住宅和一個非常有名的博物館——紐約古根海姆博物館。
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is one of the most visited sites in New York City. About one million people visit every year. Frank Lloyd Wright worked on it from 1943 to 1959. It was designed to create a new type of space for new types of art. The museum remains an international icon of modern architecture that represents Wright's unique design.
紐約古根海姆博物館是紐約游客訪問最多的一個地方之一。每年有100萬人參觀。弗蘭克·勞埃德·賴特從1943年到1959年一直致力于這個博物館的設(shè)計，設(shè)計以期為新形式的藝術(shù)創(chuàng)造一種新的空間。這個博物館是國際現(xiàn)代建筑的圖標志建筑，代表萊特的獨特設(shè)計。
Many of Mr. Wright's modern buildings and homes in the U.S. Midwest have also become icons of modern American architecture. In the early 1900s, Frank Lloyd Wright designed what are often called prairie houses. A prairie is a large, mostly flat area of land with few trees and covered in grass.
萊特在美國中西部設(shè)計的現(xiàn)代建筑和住宅都成為美國現(xiàn)代建筑的標志。早在20世紀初，弗蘭克·勞埃德·賴特的設(shè)計被稱為草原式住宅。草場很大、平坦幾乎沒有什么樹，但是青草覆蓋。
One of Mr. Wright's most famous prairie houses, the Robie House, is also included among the 10 buildings. The Robie House, located in Chicago, Illinois, looks like a series of long low rooms on different levels. The rooms seem to float over the ground. Mr. Wright designed everything in this house, including the furniture and floor coverings. Mr. Wright's prairie houses had a great influence on home design in America.
萊特最有名的草原式住宅是羅比屋，也是申報的十項名錄之一。羅比屋坐落在伊利諾斯州的芝加哥，它就像參差不齊、長長的矮房子。這些房間就像漂浮在地面上。萊特設(shè)計了房子里所有的東西，包括家具、地板。萊特的草原式住宅對美國的房屋設(shè)計有很大影響。
When the Robie House was completed in 1909, the open flow space forming the living and dining rooms was a new kind of modern living space. Even more than 100 years later, his prairie houses still appear very modern.
1909年，羅比屋完工時，起居室和餐廳的開放性空間是現(xiàn)代居住空間的一種新模式。即使已經(jīng)過了100多年，他的草原式房屋仍然很流行。
Richard Longstreth is the president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. He calls Mr. Wright "the father of modern architecture, fundamentally redefining the nature of form and space during the early 20th century that would have enduring impacts of modern architecture worldwide."
理查德·朗斯特雷恩是弗蘭克·勞埃德·賴特建筑保護機構(gòu)的主席，他稱萊特為現(xiàn)代建筑之父，從根本上重塑了20世紀早期建筑的空間和形式，這對世界現(xiàn)代建筑有持續(xù)的影響。
The eight other buildings included in the nominations are: the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois; Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin; Hollyhock House in Los Angeles, California; Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania; Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House in Madison, Wisconsin; the Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona; Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; and the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California.
另外八個建筑提名包括：伊利諾斯州的橡樹園的聯(lián)合教堂，威斯康星州的塔里埃森，加利福尼亞州，洛杉磯的霍利霍克別墅，賓夕法尼亞州的流水別墅(為埃德加考夫曼設(shè)計的流水別墅)，威斯康星州位于麥迪遜的赫伯特和凱瑟琳·雅各布住宅，亞利桑那州斯科茨代爾的 西塔里埃森(帶有劇場、音樂廳和陽光別墅附屬設(shè)施)，俄克拉荷馬州巴斯特維爾的普賴斯大廈，還有加利福尼亞州圣拉菲爾的馬林郡市政中心。
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee will announce its decision in mid-2016. If Frank Lloyd Wright's 10 buildings are chosen for the list, they would be the first World Heritage listings for modern U.S. architecture. The World Heritage List already includes 22 other American sites, including the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park and the Statue of Liberty.
聯(lián)合國教科文組織的世界遺產(chǎn)委員會在2016年年中會宣布其決定，如果弗蘭克·勞埃德·賴特的10棟建筑被選入世界遺產(chǎn)名單中，這將是美國現(xiàn)代建筑首次進入世界遺產(chǎn)名錄中。世界遺產(chǎn)名錄已經(jīng)包括美國22個其它的景點，其中有大峽谷、國家黃石公園和自由女神像。
I'm Ashley Thompson
我是阿什利·湯姆普森。
This article was based on a report by VOA correspondent Isabela Cocoli. Ashley Thompson wrote it for Learning English. Hai Do was the editor.
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