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托福TPO/Official 11 Lec 2听力原文What aspect of architecture in the United States is the lecture mainly about?-新东方托福官方网校手机版

独白：听一段关于建筑学的讲座。

Narrator: Listen to part of a lecture in an Architecture Class.

教授：今天，我们要从之前学习的公共建筑总体风格稍微离一点题，来看看美国的居民建筑。

Professor: Today, we are taking a little detour from the grand styles of public architecture we've been studying to look at residential architecture in the United States.

因为这是一个我们都熟悉的话题，我想这会帮助我们理解建筑的功能和风格形式之间的关系。

Since this is something we can all identify with, I think it will help us see the relationship between the function of a structure and its style or form.

这是我们一直进行讨论的题目，稍后我们会回到这个话题。

This has been an ongoing theme in our discussions, and we will be getting back to it in just a moment.

但是在我们开始之前，我希望你们可以思考片刻：有人知道美国现在最流行的建筑风格是什么吗？Bob？

But before we get started, I want you to take a moment to think: does anyone know what the single most popular style for a house in the United States is today? Bob?

学生 1：我猜是大农场住宅风格的房子。

Student 1: I bet it is the ranch-style house.

教授：嗯，在这个区域，大概是。

但我们是（美国住宅的）典型吗？⋯⋯好，Sue请讲。

学生 2：我祖父母住的房子怎么样？

Student 2: How about the kind of house my grandparents live in?

这是一个我们认为是典型科德角式住宅的图片。

Here is a drawing of what we consider of a classic Cape Cod house.

在今天，我们看到全美国都有这种住宅。

These days, you see this style all over the United States.

但它最先在美国东北部出现，在新英格兰地区，大约在十七世纪。

But it first showed up in U.S. northeast, in the New England region, around the late 1600s.

对于你们中间不了解东北沿海地区的人，科德角是一个半岛，一个延伸到大西洋的窄条。很多这种风格的房子被建在科德角，所以地名成为了建筑的名称。

For those of you who don't know the northeast coastal region, Cape Cod is a peninsula, a narrow strip of land that juts out into the Atlantic, and so many houses in this particular style were built on Cape Cod, that the name of the place became the name of the style.

为什么科徳角式房屋在东北部这么受欢迎？

Now why did the Cape Cod style house become so popular in the northeast?

一个原因就是它是结构遵从原则的伟大案例。

Well, one reason is that it's a great example of form following function.

我们曾经多次谈论过这种结构遵从功能的准则。

We've talked about this design principle a lot about form following function.

谁给我举个例子说明，这个准则是如何生效的？

Someone give me an application of this principle.

结构遵从功能的概念究竟是什么？

What did this concept that form should follow function?

How would it be applied to housing design?

学生 2：嗯，如果说的是房屋设计，它应该是基于人们的需求，那么，设计师就应该尤其考虑那些住在房子里，或在房子里工作的人，或任何有关的人。

Student 2: Well, if it means that the design of a building should be based on the needs of the people who use it, then, well, the architect has to be very practical to think about the people who actually be living in the house or working in the office building, whatever.

对于设计师来说，用户是最重要的，而不是炫耀自己有多么有创造力。

So for the architect, it's all about the users not about showing off how creative you can be.

对于科徳角式住宅，更准确地说，还考虑到了气候。

For a Cape Cod house, it might be even more accurate to say that form also follows climate.

Who knows what the climate's like on Cape Cod?

学生 2：而且每次我去探望我祖父母，都很潮湿。

Student 2: And whenever I visit my grandparents, it's really wet.

那里不是下雨就是下雪就是雾蒙蒙的，还有风。

It's usually either raining or snowing or foggy and windy, too.

我猜有可能是它（科徳角）太暴露在海洋的原因？

I guess because it's so exposed to the ocean?

那再看一下这幅图，你就可以想象这种设计如何在这种天气中起作用。

So take another look at this drawing, and you can imagine how this design might be particularly helpful in that kind of climate.

Notice how the house sits fairly low to the ground.

这种低矮结实的房屋结构有助于房屋承受海洋刮来的强风。

This relatively low compact structure helps the house withstand the strong winds blowing off the ocean.

再看看屋顶的斜度，陡峭的角度有使得雨水和雪不在房顶堆积。

And look at the slope of the roof, the steep angle helps keep off all that rain and snow that accumulates in the winter.

还有一件事，科徳角式房屋通常面向南，来借助太阳光透过窗子使屋子暖和。

Another thing, Cape Cod houses usually face south to take advantage of the sun's warmth through the windows.

现在，你能从烟囱的位置看出什么？

Now what can you tell me about the chimney, about its location.

因为⋯⋯这跟加热房屋有关系吗？

Because,does that have something to do with heating the houses?

我的意思是，因为这样热气就不用穿过太长的距离。

I mean since the heat never has to travel very far.

学生 1：那意味着更有效地给房屋供暖，对吗？

Student 1: That means you can heat the house more efficiently, right?

教授：正是如此，看看这座房屋的外部装饰多么有限，这也是典型的科德角式房屋的特点。

Professor: Exactly, now see how the house has very little exterior decoration, that's also typical of early Cape Cod houses.

风是其中的理由之一，任何支出来的东西都可能被大风吹走，但还有其他原因，跟气候无关的，更关系到当时新英格兰乡村地区的状况。

The wind was one reason, nothing sticking out might blow away in the harsh weather, but there was probably another reason, not related to the climate, more reflection of a rural New England society back then.

科徳角房屋并不是建在大城市里的，那儿是富人住的地方。

You see Cape Cod houses were not built in the big cities, where all the rich people lived back then.

这是一些经济拮据的人建的，他们没有足够的钱去点缀房屋。

The people who built them simply couldn't afford lots of expensive decorative details.

But that was more than just a matter of money.

在这些乡下地区，人们依赖彼此而生存。

In these rural areas, people depended on each other for survival.

在这种艰难的环境里，邻里之间互相帮助支持，所以你可能不想要太过炫耀。

Neighbors had to help and support each other in a difficult environment, so you didn't want to appear to be showing off.

你想要竭尽所能不做任何有可能损坏你跟你邻居关系的事情，因为这些人有些一天会帮到你。

You'd want to avoid anything that might set you apart from your neighbors, the same people you might need to help you someday.

所以所有人都想创造一种一致的、团结的态度，这样你就看到了一种朴素的、非常普普通通的房屋风格在新英格兰地区为什么被大量模仿。

So all these help to create an attitude of conformity in the community, and you can see why a modest, a very plain style would become so widely imitated throughout rural New England.

学生 2：它很普通，可你知道，它看上去还不错。

Student 2: It is plain, but you know it's nice looking.

教授：说得好，事实上，确切来说它富有美感，这种纯正得几乎比例完美的房子，这也是为什么科徳角房屋即便在气候温和，不需要考虑功能性的地方依然受欢迎。

Professor: Good point, and in fact it's precisely that as aesthetic appeal, the…the purity, the nearly perfect proportions of the house,that's another reason for the Cape Cod enduring popularity even in places where the climate was so mild, that it's functional design doesn't matter.

What aspect of architecture in the United States is the lecture mainly about?

What is mentioned in the lecture as an application of the principle that "form follows function"?

Why does the woman refer to visiting her grandparents?

According to the lecture, what are two features of Cape Cod houses that were influenced by climate?

According to the professor, what contributed to the attitude of conformity in rural New England communities during the 1600s and 1700s?