书城课外英语-美国各州小知识(二)(双语版)
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第4章 加州(4)

forests—love your fields of yellow grain,

I love your summer breezes,and I love your winter rain,

I love you,land of flowers;land of honey,fruit and wine,

I love you,California;you have won this heart of mine.

CHORUS

I love your old gray Missions—love your vineyards

(葡萄园)streteching far,

I love you,California,with your Golden Gate ajar,

I love your purple sunsets,love your skies of azure blue(天青蓝),

I love you,California;I just can’t help loving you.

CHORUS

I love you,Catalina—you are very dear to me,

I love you,Tamalpais,and I love Yosemite,

I love you,Land of Sunshine,half your beauties are untold

(未说过的,未透露的),

I loved you in my childhood,and I’ll love you when I’m old.

CHORUS

When the snow crowned Golden Sierras

Keep their watch o’er the valleys bloom.

It is there I would be in our land by the sea,

Ev’ry breeze bearing rich perfume,

It is here nature gives of her rarest

(最稀罕的,最珍贵的(rare的比较级)),

It is Home Sweet Home to me.

And I know when I die I shall breathe my last sigh(叹息)

For my sunny California.

Facts and Trivia相关资料

1.California’s Mount Whitney measures as the highest peak in the lower 48states.Its most famous climb is Mount Whitney Trail to the 14,495feet summit.Wilderness permits are required.

2.In 1925a giant sequoia([植]美洲杉)located in California’s Kings Canyon National Park was named the nation’s national Christmas tree.The tree is over 300feet in height.

3.More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States.

4.Pacific Park,on the venerable(庄严的,值得尊敬的)Santa Monica Pier,re-creates the amusement parks once dotting the ocean areas along the Pacific Coast.Featured are 11amusement rides including the 1910-vintage hand-carved merry-go-round appearing in the movie “The Sting”.

5.Alpine County is the eighth smallest of California’s 58counties.It has no high school,ATMs,dentists,banks,or traffic lights.

6.Fallbrook is known as the Avocado Capital of the World and hosts an annual Avocado Festival.More avocados([植]鳄梨,鳄梨树)are grown in the region than any other county in the nation.

7.In the late 1850s,Kennedy Mine,located in Jackson,served as one of the richest gold mines in the world and the deepest mine in North America.

8.An animal called the riparian(河边的,水滨的)brush rabbit calls Caswell Memorial State Park(near Manteca)its home.Endemic(风土的,地方的)only to the state’s park system,the critter(〈方〉家畜)lives in approximately 255acres stretching along the area’s once-vast hardwood forest(阔叶树林).

9.In Pacific Grove there is a law on the books establishing a 500fine for molesting(骚乱)butterflies.

10.The largest three-day rodeo(〈美〉为打烙印而赶拢牧牛,牛仔竞技表演)in the United States is held on the Tehama County Fairgrounds(举行赛会的场所,露天市场)in Red Bluff.

11.Demonstrations on ****** toothpaste from orange by-products were popular attractions at the Los Angeles County fair in 1922.The fair is held in Pomona.

12.Located in Sacramento,the California State Railroad Museum is the largest museum of its kind in North America.

13.Several celebrities are buried at Hillside Cemetery in Culver City.Included gravesites are those of Al Jolson,George Jessel,Eddie Canter,Jack Benny,and Percy Faith.

14.California Caverns claims the distinction of being the most extensive system of caverns(巨洞,洞窟,深处)and passageways in the Mother Lode region of the state.

15.Totaling nearly three million acres,San Bernardino County is the largest county in the country.

16.On Catalina Island in 1926,American author Zane Grey built a pueblo-style home on the hillside overlooking Avalon Bay.He spent much of his later life in Avalon.The home is now a hotel.

17.Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge contains the largest winter population of bald(光秃的,单调的)eagles in the continental United States.