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Updated: 2004-12-06 10:12
Floating Christmas Tree Beams Peace in Violent City

狂暴混亂的城市里 圣誕樹點亮和平燈火

Floating Christmas Tree Beams Peace in Violent City

 

The lights are blazing from the world's largest floating Christmas tree -- a gigantic metal structure as tall as a 27-storey tower block set on a lagoon in Rio de Janeiro.

With the mountain-top Christ the Redeemer statue looking down on it, the 82-meter tree stands as a brightly flashing symbol of peace in one of the world's most violent cities.

"We're competing with all the violent news from Rio to show the world what a marvelous city it is," Roberto Medina, the project's creator, told reporters during a boat tour on the Rodrigo Freitas lagoon on Tuesday night.

The tree features moving images of church bells and doves flickering from nearly 3 million lights.

The Christmas tree, first erected in 1996, constitutes Rio de Janeiro's third biggest tourist event after the pre-lenten Carnival and New Year's Eve on Copacabana and other beaches.

Some 100,000 people came to watch on Saturday night when the lights were switched on and more than a million are expected to view the structure before the lights are turned off on Jan. 6.

"It's beautiful. Rio isn't just shootings and killings," said Sandra Gomes de Faria, a 51-year-old retired telephone operator.

Around 1,300 workers were hired to assemble the tree, constructed from 410 tons of metal scaffolding supported by 11 barges.

Bradesco Seguros e Previdencia, Brazil's largest insurance company, spent 2 million reais on the project.

The Guinness Book of Records lists it as the world's largest floating Christmas tree.

In comparison, the Christmas tree in New York's Rockefeller Center is 71 feet tall and has 30,000 lights, although it is a real Norwegian spruce.

Rio, which has one of the world's highest murder rates, was rocked by violence last week as rival drug gangs fought for control of drug distribution points in city slums.

(Agencies)

世界上最大的“水上圣誕樹”上燈火閃耀——這棵金屬結構的巨大圣誕樹有27層樓那么高,聳立在巴西里約熱內盧市環礁湖的湖面上。

在坐落于基督山頂上的耶穌神像的俯視下,這棵82米高的大樹矗立著,成為里約熱內盧市——世界上最不安定的城市之一——里一個熠熠生輝的和平符號。

“我們正在和里約熱內盧的一切暴力消息做斗爭,向世界展示這是一個多么神奇和偉大的城市。”周二晚,這個項目的策劃人羅伯托·梅迪納泛舟羅德里戈湖(Rodrigo Freitas)時對記者說。

這棵“樹”用將近300萬顆燈泡設計出變化生動的景象,如忽隱忽現的教堂風鈴和揮動翅膀的鴿子。

這棵圣誕樹始建于1996年,成為里約熱內盧繼大齋戒前的狂歡節、新年前夕盛會(在科帕卡巴納等海灘上舉辦的煙火表演)之后的第三大旅游盛事。

約有10萬人觀看了星期六晚上的亮燈儀式,預計1月6日滅燈之前,還將有100多萬人前來觀賞這座建筑物。

“它很美麗。里約熱內盧并不僅僅意味著槍擊和殺戮。”51歲的退休話務員桑德拉·戈梅斯·德法里婭說。

這棵圣誕樹是用410噸重的金屬臺架搭成的,整個組裝工程動用了11艘駁船(來運輸材料),雇傭了大約1300名工人。

巴西最大的保險公司Bradesco Seguros e Previdencia為這個項目投保200萬雷亞爾(巴西貨幣單位)。

《吉尼斯世界紀錄大全》將它收錄為世界上最大的“水上圣誕樹”。

相比之下,紐約洛克非勒中心的圣誕樹只有71英尺高,上面點綴著3萬只燈泡,盡管那是一棵真正的挪威云杉。

里約熱內盧市擁有世界上最高的謀殺率,上個周又遭到了暴力行為的震撼——兩幫販毒團伙在城市的貧民區為爭奪對毒品分散據點的控制權展開械斗。

(中國日報網站譯)

 
Vocabulary:

lagoon: a shallow body of water, especially one separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs(環礁湖,瀉湖,尤指海中被河口的沙洲或珊瑚礁圍成的淺水湖)

scaffolding : materials used for constructing scaffolds(建平臺、腳手架等用的材料)

 

 

 
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