Golden Gate Bridge
金门大桥

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the mile-wide, three-mile-long channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U. S. city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County, bridging both U. S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. The bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
金门大桥是一座跨越金门海峡的悬索桥。1英里宽、3英里长的金门海峡连通着旧金山湾和太平洋。金门大桥连接着旧金山半岛最北端的旧金山市和马林郡，架载着美国101号国道和加利福尼亚州1号州道穿越金门海峡，是旧金山、加州乃至美国最广为人知的地标之一，曾被美国建筑工程师协会誉为当代奇迹之一。

Irving Morrow, a relatively unknown residential architect, designed the overall shape of the bridge towers, the lighting scheme, and Art Deco elements, such as the tower decorations, streetlights, railing, and walkways. The famous International Orange color was originally used as a sealant for the bridge. The Frommers Travel Guide considers the Golden Gate Bridge “possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed bridge in the world”. It opened in 1937 and was, until 1964, the longest suspension bridge main span in the world, at 4,200 feet (1,300 m). It now has the second-longest main span in the United States, after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City.
欧文·莫罗，一位不知名的住宅建筑师设计了桥的整体造型，包括索塔、照明方案和装饰艺术，例如索塔装饰、路灯、栅栏和人行道等。大桥那著名的国际橘色，原先只是用作桥梁的密封剂。《弗罗默斯旅游指南》认为金门大桥“可能是世界上最漂亮且一定是最上镜的桥”。它始建于1937年，拥有世界上最长的悬索桥跨距(直至1964年)，长4 200英尺(1 300米)。如今金门大桥拥有美国第二长的跨距，仅次于纽约市的韦拉札诺海峡大桥。