东方明珠广播电视塔
The Oriental Pearl Radio and Television Tower 练习译文&标准译文翻译技巧&说明
东方明珠广播电视塔位于黄浦江畔、浦东陆家嘴嘴尖上，塔高468米，三面环水，与外滩的万国建筑博览群隔江相望，是亚洲第一、世界第三的高塔。
Located in Lujiazui Delta on the bank of Huangpu River,the468-meter-tall Oriental Pearl Radio and Television Tower is the tallest tower in Asia and the third tallest tower in the world.Surrounded by Huangpu River on three sides,the tower faces the foreign-style architectural complex of Waitan across the river.
The Oriental Pearl Radio and Television Tower stands on the Huangpu River and at the point of Lujiazui in Pudong.
Surrounded by waters on three sides and facing a row of buildings of variegated Western architectures in the Bund across the river,the468-meter-high tower ranks first in Asia and third in the world in height.外滩the Bund=Waitan
在……尖at the point of…
三面环水surrounded by waters on three sides
与……相望face
万国建筑博览群buildings of variegated Western architectures ……第……高rank…in height
位于stand on the…=be located on the…
设计者富于想象的将11个大小不一、高低错落的球体从蔚蓝的空中串联至如茵的绿色草地上，而两颗红宝石般晶莹夺目巨大球体被高高托起，整个画面浑然一体，充满了“大珠小珠落玉盘”的诗情画意。
The designer of the tower creatively strings11spheres of various sizes at different heights,linking them together all the way from the blue sky to the green grass.With two major spheres propped up like two glamorous pieces of rubies,the tower forms a well-balanced view reproducing the beautiful scene of lots of pearls falling onto a jade plate.
The designers,inspired by rich imagination,had11 spheres arranged in order of their sizes like a string of pearls from high up in the blue sky down to the carpet of green lawn,while two colossal dazzling ruby-like spheres are propped high up.
The harmonious entity of the tower presents a picture of pearls,big and small,seemingly falling down from the top to the bottom,a scene full of poetic and artistic imagination.球体sphere
托起prop(up)
富于想象imaginatively=inspired by rich imagination
如茵绿草the carpet of green lawn 巨大的colossal
晶莹夺目的dazzling/sparking/radiant
浑然一体a harmonious entity=the picture is in perfect harmony
充满诗情画意of poetic and artistic imagination
大珠小珠落玉盘pearls,big and small,seemingly falling down from the top to the bottom
东方明珠广播电视塔的塔体主要由三根擎天立柱立柱column
及塔座和下球体、上球体、太空舱等大小不等的钢质球体组成。
The Oriental Pearl Radio and Television Tower is made up of3sky-high major columns,the pedestal,and steel spheres of various sizes which includes the higher semisphere,the lower semisphere and the spherical penthouse.
The Tower is mainly composed of3gigantic columns,the pedestal and the lower sphere,upper sphere and spherical penthouse made of steel in different sizes.塔座pedestal=base
太空舱（仅限本文）spherical penthouse
每根立柱直径为9米，内有美国奥的斯电梯公司专门为东方明珠设计、建造、安装的高速电梯载客上下。Each column is9meters in diameter,with express elevators specially designed,made and installed for this very tower by American company Otis Elevator built inside.
Equipped inside with a high-speed passenger elevator Otis of the USA 直径diameter
直径为……be…in diameter=have a diameter of…
…国…公司（公司名）of（国家名）
奥的斯（电梯公司）Otis
塔座主要由3000多平方米进出大厅和一个近2万平方米的超级百货商场构成，大厅四周有12幅世界著名景点的巨幅灯箱照片，使游客有一种身临其境的感觉。The pedestal consists of an entrance hall of over3000 square meters and a super department store,which respectively covers an area of over3000square meters and around20000square meters.There are12lightbox pictures of famous scenery sites around the world decorating the entrance hall,providing a vivid picture for all visitors.
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The interior hall is decorated with12huge lamp-lit pictures of famous scenic spots in the world.
They are so vivid that tourists feel as if they were right on the scene.灯箱照片lamp-lit pictures
景点scenic spot
身临其境feel as if sb were there on the scene
晶莹耀眼的下球体直径为50米，其中一层为98米的观光廊，其余各层安装各种先进的娱乐设施，使之成为中国乃至亚洲的旅游热点和游乐中心之一。
The brilliant lower semisphere has a diameter of50 meters.With a98-meter-long observation corridor on one floor,and all kinds of modern entertainment facilities on other floors,the lower semisphere has become one of the tourist hot spots and entertainment centers of China and the whole Asia.先进的advanced
娱乐设施recreational facilities 旅游热点tourist hot spot
游乐中心amusement center
