旅游英语：Chinatown介绍

旅游英语：

Chinatown

介绍

导语：唐人街也被 称为华埠或中国城

(Chinatown)

，是华人在其

他国家城市地区聚居的地区。

唐人街的形成，

是因为早期华人移居海

外，成为当地的少数族群，

在面对新环境 需要同舟共济，便群居在一

个地带，故此多数唐人街是华侨历史的一种见证。

Across the Potomac River in Arlington

，

Virginia; closest

Metro

Arlington

Cemetery.

AprilSept

daily

8am7pm;

rest

of

year daily 8am5pm. 202/703/692-0931. Admission free.

A

poignant

contrast

to

the

grand

monuments

of

the

capital

is

provided

by

the

vast

sea

of

identical

white

headstones

on

the

hillsides

of

Arlington

National

Cemetery.

The country's most honoured final resting place was first

used during the Civil War

，

when the grand mansion at the top

of

the

hill

，

and

all

the

surrounding

land

，

belonged

to

Confederate leader Robert E Lee. Nearly 200

，

000 US war dead

lie here

，

and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier remembers

thousands

more

whose

bodies

were

never

recovered

or

identified. An eternal flame marks the grave of President John

F Kennedy

，

near his brother Robert and

，

as of 1994

，

next

to

his

widow

，

Jacqueline

Kennedy

Onassis.

Among

other

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well-known names is Pierre L'Enfant

，

whose grave site

offers a superb view over the Mall and the District he designed;

while the new Women in Military Service Memorial

，

by the

main

gate

，

is

just

one

of

several

high- profile

memorials

to

celebrated

personnel

，

like

the

doomed

crew

of

the

Space

Shuttle Challenger.

Unless you

have strong

legs and

lots of time

，

the

best

way to see the vast cemetery is by Tourmobile

，

which leaves

from the visitor center at the entrance. You can also walk here

from the Lincoln Memorial across the Arlington Bridge.

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On the surface, Chinatown is prosperous - a "model

slum," some have called it - with the lowest crime rate,

highest employment and least juvenile delinquency of any city

district. Walk through its crowded streets at any time of day,

and

every

shop

is

doing

a

brisk

and

businesslike

trade:

restaurant

after

restaurant

is

booming;

there

are

storefront

displays of shiny squids, clawing crabs and clambering lobster;

and

street

markets

offer

overflowing

piles

of

exotic

green

vegetables, garlic and ginger root. Chinatown has the feel of a

land

of

plenty,

and

the

reason

why

lies

with

the

Chinese

themselves:

even

here,

in

the

very

core

of

downtown

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