自由女神像英文介绍

自由女神像英文介绍

Ken Burns‘s fourth short film gives us a clear taste for the style that he made famous with The Civil War and Baseball. The first half of this hour-long program examines the design and construction of the Statue of Liberty using drawings, photographs, and readings (Jeremy Irons gives voice to French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, who designed the statue). As narrator David McCullough states, no one at the dedication ceremony mentioned immigration, but the statue became a towering symbol of America‘s open-door policy. The second half examines the meaning of the statue and of liberty itself. Comments by author James Baldwin, director Milos Forman, and politicians Barbara Jordan and Mario Cuomo reverberate, as does Paul Simon‘s song "American Tune," which bookends the picture. －－Doug Thomas

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Filmmaker Ken Burns presents the definitive portrait of this great lady of the American imagination, in a program that won nominations for both an Academy Award and an Emmy. Follow her life, from her creation by French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, through her painstaking construction and accident-prone dedication in 1886. Interviews with ordinary Americans reveal a deep understanding of the unique place the statue holds in our hearts.

纽约市最着名的雕像当属位于自由岛上的"自由女神"像，她不仅是纽约市的城标，而且成为了美国的象征。自由女神像是法国人民为庆祝美国100周年国庆送给美国人民的礼物。由法国雕塑家巴托迪创作，颂扬美国的新共和与自由，并希望自由重返法国（1851年路易·波拿巴发动军事政变推翻了第二共和国）。雕像的底部刻着犹太裔女诗人爱玛·拉扎罗丝的诗句：送给我吧，你那些疲乏的和贫困的

挤在一起渴望自由呼吸的大众；

你那熙熙攘攘的岸上被遗弃的

可怜的人群；

把那些无家可归的、饱经风霜的人们

一起送给我。

我站在金门口，

高举自由的灯火！

1886年10月28日当时的美国总统克利夫兰为自由女神像落成揭幕。巴托迪因其功勋卓着被纽约市政府封为纽约市荣誉公民，而他所塑造的自由女神像也表达了人民对于自由的热爱与向往。

自由女神像之所以能够在众多的城市雕塑中脱颖而出成为纽约的城标（在某种意义上是美国的象征）的原因是，它代表了城市的历史，它代表了城市的精神，它代表了城市的特点，它也道出了城市人民美好的、向上的理想与愿望；当然在艺术表现形式上它一定是高雅的、优美的。