体验国外：Reflections at Ground Zero

Soaring into the sky at a record height of over 415 meters, the Twin Towers project started to break ground in the year 1966. It took another several years before the towers were erected. Faced with building to an unprecedented height, architect Minoru Yamasaki and engineers John Skilling and Les Robertson employed rigid "hollow tubes" of closely spaced steel columns with floor trusses extended across to a central core. The columns, finished with a silver-coloured aluminium alloy, were set only 22" apart, making the towers appear from afar to have no windows at all.
创记录地以415米的高度耸入云霄的“双子塔”工程于1966年开始破土动工。其后又历时数年才建立起来。由于面临着一个空前的建筑高度，建筑师山崎实与约翰•斯奇林和莱斯•罗伯逊等工程师采用了由密距钢柱构成的坚硬“空管”结构，并在其中的井道部分辅以地板桁架。这些柱子，外覆银色铝合金，间距仅为22英寸，使得这两栋塔楼远远望去如同没有窗户一般。

Standing at the lower tip of Manhattan Island facing the Statue of Liberty, the Twin Towers were an architectural marvel symbolizing the prosperity of free trading and the enormous success of capitalistic economy core values. The Twin Towers, like two sharp swords cutting into the sky, became America's symbol of wealth superiority.
矗立在曼哈顿岛南端、面向自由女神像的“双子塔”是一座建筑奇迹，象征着自由贸易的繁荣和资本主义经济核心价值观的巨大成功。“双子塔”，犹如两把直插云霄的利剑，成为了美国物质优越性的象征。