CET-B4-Unit7(new version) Snapshots of New York’s Mood after 911 全新版大学英语综合教程（第二版）第四册+英语课件[精品].ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * “Reflecting Absence” symbolises the emptiness that left by the fallen Twin Towers. It was designed by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker and was selected as the winner of the LMDC’s design competition that had 5,201 entrants from 63 nations. The eye-caching two pools with the largest manmade waterfalls in the United States cascading down their sides are located within the footprints of the Twin Towers. Each pool is 1-acre (4,000 m2), and together they are intended to symbolize the loss of life and the physical void left by the terrorist attacks. The sound of the water falling is supposed to drown out the sounds of the city, making the site a contemplative sanctuary. Almost 400 sweet gum and swamp white oak trees fill the remaining 6 acres (24,000 m2) of the Memorial Plaza, furthering the reflective nature of the site. Ramps would lead down to underground galleries where visitors could stroll past cascading waterfalls and plaques engraved with the names of those who died on the tragic event of 9/11. * / Reflecting Absence * Rushing water at the newly opened Reflecting Absence memorial captures sunlight and rainbows. * * * * * The 2,983 names of the men, women, and children killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993, are inscribed into bronze parapets surrounding the twin Memorial pools, located in the footprints of the Twin Towers. * * The names are arranged according to a system of “meaningful adjacencies.” Names would be arranged side-by-side where relationships existed. At night the panels are lit from within. * * ZHE ZENG 曾喆 (9.30.1972--9.11.2001) 出生于广州的曾喆，911救人而牺牲的华人英雄 * The Tribute in Light is an art installation of 88 searchlights placed next to the site of the World Trade Center to create two vertical columns of light in remembrance of the September 11 attacks. * * * The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks up