芝加哥趣聞

張祖平

1. Chicago is the third largest city in United States.

芝加哥是美國第三大城市。

2. Chicago has over 40 museums， more than 150 theaters and over 6，000 restaurants.

芝加哥有40多家博物館，150多家劇院和6000多家餐館。

3. Chicago boasts1 of housing three of the worlds tallest buildings： Sears Tower， Amoco Building and John Hancock Center. From the Sears Tower， also known as Willis Tower， four of the American states can be seen including Michigan， Indiana， Illinois and Wisconsin.

芝加哥自詡擁有世界上最高的三座建筑物：西爾斯大廈、阿莫科大廈和約翰·漢考克中心。從西爾斯大廈（也稱威利斯大廈）上可以看到美國四個州——密歇根州、印第安納州、伊利諾斯州和威斯康辛州。

4. The worlds largest public library， Harold Washington Library Center， with a collection of more than 2 million books， is in Chicago.

世界上最大的公共圖書館哈羅德·華盛頓圖書館中心位于芝加哥，藏書200多萬冊。

5. Chicago has the largest population2 of Poles in the world， outside of Warsaw.

除了波蘭首都華沙之外，芝加哥的波蘭人是最多的。

6. More than 200 annual3 parades4 take place in the city of Chicago every year.

每年，芝加哥有200多場一年一度的游行。

7. Chicago has the second largest building in America （after Pentagon）， the Chicago Merchandise Mart， with 90 acres5 of floor space.

芝加哥有美國第二大建筑物商業(yè)中心（僅次于五角大樓）占地90英畝。

8. Chicago is known as the “Candy Capital of the World”.

芝加哥被稱為“世界糖果之都”。

9. Alone in the urban6 area of Chicago there are more than 30 Fortune 500 companies.

僅在芝加哥的城區(qū)，財富500強(qiáng)的公司就有30多家。

10. The first planetarium7 in the Western Hemisphere8 known as the Adler Planetarium was opened in Chicago in 1930.

西半球第一家天文館——芝加哥的阿德勒天文館創(chuàng)辦于1930年。