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桥中识巴黎 Knowing Paris by Its Bridges Sometimes, when sleep eludes me in the dark hour before dawn, I make my way to the Pont de la Tournelle, the 400-foot bridge that links the lie Saint-Louis to Paris, s Left Bank. I plant myself at its midpoint, face west and wait. Before me is the skeletal back of Notre-Dame, shrouded in darkness. 有时，我在黎明前的黑暗中醒来，不能再入睡时，我会 走上都尔奈勒桥，这座122米长的桥把巴黎左岸与圣路易岛 连接起来。我站在桥中央，面向西等待着，面前是笼罩在黑 暗中的圣母院后部的轮廓。 I watch as the sky moves from blue-black to deep blue velvet to soft gray, then light blue. The delicate architectural details of the cathedral gradually reveal themselves, until finally, the early morning sun bathes them in warm orange hues. 之处再往下游走一点的地方。它不拘一格，追求不对称的效 果，集拱桥与悬索桥于一体;虽然跨越塞纳河最宽的一段，却 看不见任何桥墩或者支撑物。 八The heart of Paris is still the lie de la Cite, the island in the middle of the river where Paris was created in ancient times. There, at the foot of the Hotel de Ville (City Hall), is the Pont d Arcole, the site of the last scene of the 2003 film “Something s Gotta Give. Jack Nicholson, thinking he has lost Diane Keaton, stumbles out of a restaurant near the Hotel de Ville and onto the bridge. An accordionist plays 11 La vie en rose. A tourist boat aglow in white lights cruises below him. He gets teary-eyed. It starts to snow. She arrives in a taxi to confess that she still loves him. He tells her, /zIf it s true, my life just got made r m 63 years old, and I m in love — for the first time in my life/7 They kiss. 巴黎的中心仍然是西岱岛(ile de la Cite),这个位于河 中的小岛是古代巴黎的发源地。在那里，阿尔科莱桥(Pont d Arcole)就在市政厅的脚下,2003年的电影《爱是妥协》 (Something s Gotta Give)的最后一幕就是在这里拍摄的。杰克?尼科尔森(Jack Nicholson)以为自己失去了黛安?基 顿(Diane Keaton),跌跌撞撞地走出市政厅附近的一家餐厅，上了桥。一个手风琴演奏者在弹奏《玫瑰人生》(La vie en rose)o桥下是一艘闪闪发光的游船驶过。他泪眼婆娑。 天上开始飘雪。她坐着出租车赶来，成认自己仍然爰着他。 他对她说，〃如果真是这样，我的生活才刚刚开始……我今 年63岁，我恋爱了——有生以来的第一次。〃他们吻在一 起。 Even the most fantastic love scenes in the moviesseem plausible standing on a Parisian bridge. 站在巴黎的桥上，即使电影中最梦幻的爱情场景也显得真实可信。 八Nearby, the Pont Saint-Louis connects the lie de la Cite and t