VOA慢速英语: 弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特建筑被提名为世界遗产名录

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Nominated for World Heritage List
弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特建筑被提名为世界遗产目录

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.
弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特被称为美国现代建筑之父。他为美国设计了70多年的建筑和房屋。他的大部分创作是在20世纪初到20世纪50年代完成的，但是他开阔居住空间和充满想象的设计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，美国向联合国教科文组织《世界遗产名录》提名了他的10项建筑设计。《世界遗产名录》认可世界上最重要的文化景观和自然景观。
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.
美国申报的这十项建筑项目名为“弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特的现代主要作品”这些建筑在1906年到1969年间建成。这些建筑包括他个人的房子、工作室、教堂、政府建筑、私人住宅和一个非常有名的博物馆——纽约古根海姆博物馆。
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.
纽约古根海姆博物馆是纽约游客访问最多的一个地方之一。每年有100万人参观。弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特从1943年到1959年一直致力于这个博物馆的设计，设计以期为新形式的艺术创造一种新的空间。这个博物馆是国际现代建筑的图标志建筑，代表莱特的独特设计。
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.
莱特在美国中西部设计的现代建筑和住宅都成为美国现代建筑的标志。早在20世纪初，弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特的设计被称为草原式住宅。草场很大、平坦几乎没有什么树，但是青草覆盖。
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.
莱特最有名的草原式住宅是罗比屋，也是申报的十项名录之一。罗比屋坐落在伊利诺斯州的芝加哥，它就像参差不齐、长长的矮房子。这些房间就像漂浮在地面上。莱特设计了房子里所有的东西，包括家具、地板。莱特的草原式住宅对美国的房屋设计有很大影响。
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，罗比屋完工时，起居室和餐厅的开放性空间是现代居住空间的一种新模式。即使已经过了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·朗斯特雷恩是弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特建筑保护机构的主席，他称莱特为现代建筑之父，从根本上重塑了20世纪早期建筑的空间和形式，这对世界现代建筑有持续的影响。
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.
另外八个建筑提名包括：伊利诺斯州的橡树园的联合教堂，威斯康星州的塔里埃森，加利福尼亚州，洛杉矶的霍利霍克别墅，宾夕法尼亚州的流水别墅(为埃德加考夫曼设计的流水别墅)，威斯康星州位于麦迪逊的赫伯特和凯瑟琳·雅各布住宅，亚利桑那州斯科茨代尔的 西塔里埃森(带有剧场、音乐厅和阳光别墅附属设施)，俄克拉荷马州巴斯特维尔的普赖斯大厦，还有加利福尼亚州圣拉菲尔的马林郡市政中心。
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.
联合国教科文组织的世界遗产委员会在2016年年中会宣布其决定，如果弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特的10栋建筑被选入世界遗产名单中，这将是美国现代建筑首次进入世界遗产名录中。世界遗产名录已经包括美国22个其它的景点，其中有大峡谷、国家黄石公园和自由女神像。
I'm Ashley Thompson
我是阿什利·汤姆普森。
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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unique – adj. very special or unusual
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