美国著名风景名胜介绍.ppt

The tourist attractions
Of the USA
幻灯片制作:黄博文
演讲:姚媛媛杨文莲
First,we will introduce American important cities
I. Washington,
Washington, ., city and district, capital of the United States of America.
1. Jefferson Memorial
To honor the man who was principal author of the Declaration of Independence ,the nation’s third president, and the first . Secretary of State.
Builders laid the cornerstone for the United States Capitol in 1793, and the building has been the seat of the country’s Senate and the House of Representatives since 1800. Since its original construction, the Capitol building has been expanded to more than twice its original size. The Rotunda stands 66 m (180 ft) high and is the symbolic center of both Capitol Hill and Washington, .
2. Capitol Hill
Meeting place of the US congress and one of the nation’s most familiar landmarks
White House, in Washington, the official presidential residence located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The White House contains 132 rooms, but only 7 of these are open to public tours.
The White House gardens are on the south side of the mansion. Official ceremonies and receptions are sometimes held in the Rose Garden, and presidents address members of the press here, as did Bill Clinton in 1993, shown here.
林肯纪念堂(Lincoln Memorial)
It is seen as the United States Permanent statue and Washington city landmark, built memorate the sixteenth president of the United States Abraham lincoln.
-- “Lincoln will go down to posterity, and people‘s hearts forever”
它被视为美国永恒的塑像及华盛顿市标志,为纪念美国第十六届总统亚伯拉罕·林肯而建。
──“林肯将永垂不朽,永存人民心里”
Lincoln Memorial