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Bethesda Fountain 毕士达喷泉 Bethesda Fountain Thank You ! * Bethesda Fountain is the core of the Central Park. It was built in 1873, to commemorate(纪念）the soldiers who died in the civil war. The name of the Bethesda is taken from the Bible story. The Bethesda Fountain is one of the largest fountains in New York, measuring twenty-six feet high by ninety-six feet wide. It is one of the most well known fountains in the world, and the statue (雕像）at its center was the only sculpture (雕塑）to have been commissioned（委任） as a part of Central Park’s original design . This neoclassical （新古典主义）sculpture, also known as?Angel of the Waters（水中天使）, features an eight-foot （八英尺）bronze（青铜制的） angel who stands above four small cherubim（小天使，cherub的复数） representing health, purity（纯净）, temperance（节制）, and peace. The angel herself carries a lily in one hand while the other remains outstretched（张开的）, poised in the action of delivering a blessing on the water pouring from around her feet and into the basin（水池） at the bottom of the fountain. This is to commemorate（庆祝，纪念） the 1842 opening of the Croton Aqueduct（巴豆渡槽）, which supplied New York City with fresh water. 注：巴豆渡槽是纽约第一个供水道，现已弃用。 Angel of the Waters was designed by Emma Stebbins in 1868 and dedicated in 1873, at which point Stebbins became the first woman to receive commission for a major work of art in the city of New York. Stebbins linked the new, pure city water flowing from the fountain to the healing powers of the biblical pool(圣经池）, and quoted（引证）John 5:2-4 at the statue‘s dedication（奉献）, saying “Now there is at Jerusalem（耶路撒冷） by the sheep market a pool, which is called... Bethesda... whoever then first after the troubling of the waters stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. *