unit11 综合英语5.pptVIP

Essay Reading 5. posterity: offspring, children of future generations 6. Nathaniel Hawthorne: (1804-1864)a novelist and short-story writer BACK 7. edifying sentiments: the intention for teaching others 8. Kenneth Clark (Mackenzie) later Baron Clark (of Saltwood), (1903-1983) British art historian and administrator BACK 9. Le Corbusier: (1887-1965) a Swiss-French architect and city planner 10. Ralph Waldo Emerson: (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist, and lecturer BACK 11. Alexandra Lange: American writer, critic of architecture, author of Writing about Architecture (2012) BACK 12. the Great Fire: Also known as the Great Fire of London (1699), it broke out of a small lane and burned down over a thousand houses, but only killed four people. BACK 13. Luigi Novelli is an Italian architect who wrote several books and articles about architecture in Beijing and Shanghai for Italian magazines. This article is adapted from his book Shanghai Architecture Guide, published Haiwen Audio-Video Publishers 2004. The title is the textbook’s author’s work. BACK 14. The Museum: It refers to Shanghai Museum which is nestled in the south of the square. BACK 15. void: places without buildings, such as streets or lawns in the city BACK 16. The Harbor Ring Plaza is located in the southeast corner of the square. 17. The Post and Telecommunication Building is located on the south side of the square. If the building was to face the People’s Square according to the Western concept of “urban space”, it should have been constructed with a northward orientation. BACK 18. The buildings along the Bund (外滩) were built during the foreign settlement in the 1920-1930s. The People’s Square was reconstructed on the basis of the old People’s Park in the late 1990s. BACK 19. The four buildings: They refer to the four newly constructed buildings: Shanghai Municipal Government, Shanghai Urban Development, and Shanghai Opera House which are seated on the northern side of the square facing south, and the Shanghai M