Paris,France
A short time later our plane began to slow and bank.Lovely,green England came into view,but we soon left England behind.After watching the English Channel slip by,France appeared,the land carved into squares of green and brown.
Paris,lovely,green romantic Paris,a city of contrasts-I fell in love with her as so many others have before me.Magnificent modern buildings were everywhere,but in between them stood tiny ancient shops and apartments.As long as I live,I’ll remember my first night in Paris when I stood on Montamarte,the highest hill in the city,the lights of Paris spread in a panorama below while the cool autumn breeze whispered through the trees.I could not believe I was really there!
The next morning,we enjoyed a tour of Paris,which is just as beautiful by day as by night.The tree-lined streets were spotless,for each morning,water from the River Seine flows from drains onto the streets where shopkeepers with long reed brooms sweep the streets clean.We drove past many famous restaurants,shops and apartment houses.At the end of the most famous street in Paris,the Champs Elysse,stood the golden Arch of Triumph through which the Allies in World WarⅡmarched after driving defeated Germans from the city.
As we walked through the grounds around Notre Dame,I gazed above me at imposing Gothic towers silhouetted like giant sentinels against the gray sky.From the top of the Cathedral wall rain spouts jutted about every twelve feet,each spout made in the face of an animal,the rain pouring from its mouth.
Inside the Cathedral,exquisite,elegant rosette stained glass windows gleamed from a sudden burst of sunlight forcing its way through the clouds as though heaven had opened long enough to light them for us.One of the windows had been badly damaged during World WarⅡ.All the colors in the replacement glass perfectly match the undamaged window except blue;the formula for this shade of blue had been lost and could not be duplicated no matter how hard the artists tried.To my untrained eye,it was undetected.
The Eiffel Tower,an extraordinary edifice made of interlocking steel girders soared into the sky,glittering brightly in the sunlight.The Eiffel Tower,a skeleton iron tower,is 934 feet high,built as a feature of the World’s Fair held in Paris in 1889.The lower section consists of four arched columns,each providing a supporting base 330 feet square.The columns curve toward each other until they unite in a single column 620 feet above the ground.Platforms are at the 189 ft.,the 380 feet and 906 feet levels on the first level is a restaurant.Each platform has its own observation deck.The Eiffel Tower plays an important part in scientific research,first being utilized as a radio broadcasting station.Searchlights are mounted near the top as are a meteorological observatory and physical and biological laboratories.
We rode in an elevator as far as it could go toward the top of the Eiffel Tower and climbed narrow metal steps the rest of the way to a platform high in the sky.We could see the whole city of Paris from there-a most breathtaking sight.
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法国巴黎
过了一会儿，我们的飞机开始减速和倾斜。可爱的绿色英国映入眼帘，但我们很快就离开了英国。看着英吉利海峡渐渐过去，法国出现了，土地被雕刻成绿色和棕色的方形。
巴黎，可爱的，绿色浪漫的巴黎，一个充满对比的城市——我爱上了她，就像我之前的许多人一样。宏伟的现代建筑随处可见，但在它们之间矗立着小小的古代商店和公寓。只要我还活着，我就会记得我在巴黎的第一个晚上，我站在城市最高山的蒙特马特，当凉爽的秋风吹过树梢时，巴黎的灯光在下面的全景中展开。我简直不敢相信我真的在那儿！
第二天早上，我们游览了巴黎，白天和夜晚一样美丽。绿树成荫的街道一尘不染，因为每天早上塞纳河水从下水道流到街道上，店主们拿着长长的芦苇扫帚把街道打扫干净。我们开车经过许多著名的餐馆、商店和公寓。在巴黎最著名的街道香榭丽舍大街的尽头，矗立着金色的胜利拱门，在二战中盟军将战败的德国人从该城赶出来后，通过这座拱门行进。
当我们穿过圣母院周围的场地时，我凝视着高耸入云的哥特式塔楼，这些塔楼的轮廓如同巨大的哨兵，映衬在灰色的天空。从教堂墙的顶部每隔12英尺就有一个雨水喷口突起，每个雨水喷口都是在动物面前形成的，雨水从它的嘴里倾泻而出。
大教堂里，一阵突如其来的阳光迫使它穿过云层，仿佛天堂已经为我们打开了足够长的时间，为我们照亮了一扇精致、优雅的玫瑰色玻璃窗。其中一扇窗户在第二次世界大战期间被严重损坏。除了蓝色，所有替换玻璃的颜色都与完好无损的窗户非常相配；这种蓝色色调的配方已经丢失，无论艺术家们如何努力，都无法复制。对我未受过训练的眼睛，这是未被发现的。
埃菲尔铁塔是一座由互锁的钢梁构成的非凡建筑，它高耸入云，在阳光下闪闪发光。埃菲尔铁塔是一座骷髅铁塔，高934英尺，是1889年在巴黎举行的世界博览会的特色建筑。下部由四个拱形柱子组成，每个柱子提供330英尺正方形的支撑基础。柱子相互弯曲，直到它们在地面620英尺的一个圆柱上结合起来。平台在189英尺，380英尺和906英尺的第一层是一个餐厅。每个平台都有自己的观察平台。埃菲尔铁塔在科学研究中发挥着重要作用，首先被用作无线电广播站。探照灯安装在顶部附近，气象观测站和物理和生物实验室也是如此。
我们乘坐电梯，一直到埃菲尔铁塔顶，然后沿着狭窄的金属台阶爬到高高的空中平台。从那里我们可以看到整个巴黎，这是最令人惊叹的景象。
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