雙語科技百科(近現代成就) 第114期:東方明珠
Oriental Pearl TV Tower
The Oriental Pearl Tower is a TV tower in Shanghai, China. The Oriental Pearl Tower is located at the tip of Lujiazui in the Pudong 468 m (1,535 feet) high, it is the tallest tower in Asia, and the third tallest tower in the world after the CN Tower and the Ostankino Tower. Construction began in 1991 and the tower was completed in 1994. The tower features 11 spheres, big and small and the entire building is supported by three enormous columns that start underground. Visitors travel up and down the tower in double-decker elevators that can hold up to fifty people at the rate of seven meters per second. The design of the building is based on a verse of the Tang Dynasty poem Pipa Song by Bai Juyi about the wonderful sprinkling sound of a pipa instrument, like pearls, big and small falling on a jade plate. As a symbol of the economic reform in Shanghai, it was also the tallest structure in China before it was surpassed by the Shanghai World Financial the Statue of Liberty in N. Y. , the Sydney Opera House and the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Oriental Pearl Tower is also a landmark and a tourist attraction in Shanghai, which displays a spectacular view of an international metropolis with the Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial from far, the Yangpu Bridge and the Nanpu Bridge seem like two Chinese dragons frolicking with the pearls of the Oriental Pearl Tower.
東方明珠廣播電視塔，又名東方明珠塔，位於中國上海浦東陸家嘴金融貿易區，始建於1991年，1994年完工。東方明珠塔高467.9米，亞洲第一，世界第三，僅次於加拿大的加拿大國家電視塔（553.3米）及俄羅斯的奧斯坦金諾電視塔（540.1米）。東方明珠塔最有特色的是把11個大小不一、高低錯落的球體串聯在一起，整個建築物的支撐完全靠三根深入地下的擎天立柱，內置可載50人的雙層電梯和每秒7米的高速電梯。東方明珠塔的名字來源唐朝詩人白居易的《琵琶行》中關於琵琶的聲音的描寫，詩人把琵琶的聲音比如成珍珠落到玉盤裏時的發出美妙聲音，“大珠小珠落玉盤”。東方明珠塔是上海改革開放的象徵，曾是中國最高的建築，現在已被上海環球金融中心取代。與紐約的自由女神、悉尼歌劇院、巴黎的埃菲爾鐵塔一樣，東方明珠塔成爲上海標誌性建築和旅遊熱點之一，與後方新聳立而起的金茂大廈和環球金融中心交相輝映，展現了國際大都市的壯觀景色。從遠處看它與兩邊的楊浦大橋和南浦大橋巧妙地組合成一幅二龍戲珠的巨幅畫卷。
