911事件14周年，93航班纪念园游客中心开放

 　　Sitting on a hill overlooking the crash site near Shanksville, the $26 million visitor center complex was dedicated¹ and opened to the public on Thursday, one day before the annual 9/11 observances in Pennsylvania, New York and Washington. Victims' family members got a private tour on Wednesday.

　　当地时间9月10，斥资2600万美元建造的93航班纪念园游客中心对外开放。游客中心坐落在尚克斯维尔镇附近一座山上，可以俯瞰93航班失事地点。9月9日，园方专为遇难者家属安排了参观活动。9月11日，宾夕法尼亚州、纽约、华盛顿三地将举行911事件周年悼念活动。

　　Fourteen years in the making, the center uses photos, video, artifacts and interactive² displays to tell the story of Flight 93, the only jetliner among the four commandeered by terrorists that failed to reach its intended target on Sept. 11, 2001. Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York and one slammed into the Pentagon outside Washington. Nearly 3,000 people died.

　　耗时14年建造而成的游客中心用图片、影像资料、工艺品、交互显示等方式讲述了93航班的故事。2001年9月11日，恐怖分子共劫持了4架飞机，93航班是唯一一架未抵达攻击目的地的客机。其中两架飞机撞毁了纽约世贸中心双子塔，另一架撞毁华盛顿五角大楼一角。911事件导致近3000人遇难。

　　911事件14周年，93航班纪念园游客中心开放

　　The center's 10 exhibits are laid out chronologically³, with visitors learning how the 33 passengers and seven crew members voted to charge the cockpit and then fought to regain⁴ control of the plane, whose hijackers are believed to have wanted to crash it into the U.S. Capitol.

　　游客中心共设10个展览，按时间顺序陈列，参观者由此可以了解机上33名乘客和7名机组人员是如何一致决定闯入驾驶室夺回飞机操控权。劫机者的原定攻击目标是美国议会大厦。

　　One video traces the aircraft's erratic⁵ movements in real time, fading to black at the moment of impact. Bits and pieces of the debris⁶ field are displayed under glass.

　　一个视频资料记录了当时飞机的颠簸状态，飞机坠毁时，画面一片漆黑。玻璃橱窗下展出了部分飞机残骸。

　　Picking up a handset, visitors can listen to recordings⁷ of the voice messages that two passengers and a flight attendant left for family members minutes before the plane went down.

　　拿起电话听筒，参观者可以听到两名乘客、一名乘客在坠机前与家人的通话录音。

　　"I'm on United 93 and it’s been hijacked⁸ by terrorists who say they have a bomb," passenger Linda Gronlund, calling her sister Elsa, begins matter-of-factly. "Apparently⁹ they have flown a couple of planes into the World Trade Center already and it looks like they're going to take this one down as well." She breaks down sobbing¹⁰: "Mostly I just wanted to say I love you and I'm going to miss you."

　　乘客琳达·郎兰德打给妹妹（姐姐）爱尔莎的电话一接通，她便如实相告：“我现在美联航93航班上，飞机被恐怖分子劫持了，他们说身上有炸弹……显然，他们劫持了好几架飞机，已经撞到世贸中心了！好像他们也要撞毁现在这架。”她哽咽着说道：“我最想跟你说就是，我爱你！我会想你的！”

　　Other displays trace the recovery and investigation¹¹.

　　其他展品是关于911事件后的恢复和调查工作的。

　　The center's stark¹², 40-foot exterior¹³ concrete walls are split by a black granite¹⁴ walkway that marks the doomed¹⁵ plane's flight path. Visitors are led through the exhibits to an outdoor platform that offers a commanding view of the crash site and surrounding hills.

　　游客中心有一个黑色花岗岩走道，代表93航班的飞行路线，走道两边是未加任何装饰的混泥土外墙，总长40英尺（约12.2米）。沿着走道进入一个室外平台，飞机失事地点和周围山丘尽收眼底。

　　The money for the visitor center complex was raised from 120,000 private donors¹⁶, along with contributions from the state and the federal government. Officials project attendance will rise from 300,000 per year to around 500,000.

　　游客中心的建设资金来源包括12万名个人捐赠者，以及宾夕法尼亚州政府和联邦政府的拨款。工作人员预计，参观人数将从每年30万增加到50万左右。

　　Development of the Flight 93 National Memorial is nearly complete, with only the planned Tower of voices, a 93-foot structure with 40 wind chimes, still to be built.

　　93航班国家纪念园的建设工作已经基本完成，按规划只剩声音塔尚未竣工，声音塔高达93英尺（约28米），装有40个风铃。

　　Vocabulary

　　erratic: 不稳定的

　　stark: 无修饰的

　　granite: 花岗岩

　　wind chime: 风铃

1 dedicated   

adj.一心一意的；献身的；热诚的

参考例句：

• He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
• His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。

2 interactive   

adj.相互作用的，互相影响的，（电脑）交互的

参考例句：

• The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
• This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。

3 chronologically   

ad. 按年代的

参考例句：

• Manuscripts show cases arranged topically not chronologically. 从原稿看案例是按专题安排的而不是按年代次序安排的。
• Though the exhibition has been arranged chronologically, there are a few exceptions. 虽然展览的时间便已经安排好了，但是也有少数的例外。

4 regain   

vt.重新获得，收复，恢复

参考例句：

• He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
• The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。

5 erratic   

adj.古怪的，反复无常的，不稳定的

参考例句：

• The old man had always been cranky and erratic.那老头儿性情古怪,反复无常。
• The erratic fluctuation of market prices is in consequence of unstable economy.经济波动致使市场物价忽起忽落。

6 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

7 recordings   

n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片

参考例句：

• a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
• old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐

8 hijacked   

劫持( hijack的过去式和过去分词 )； 绑架； 拦路抢劫； 操纵（会议等，以推销自己的意图）

参考例句：

• The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome. 飞机在从伦敦飞往罗马途中遭到两名持械男子劫持。
• The plane was hijacked soon after it took off. 那架飞机起飞后不久被劫持了。

9 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

10 sobbing   

<主方>Ⅰ adj.湿透的

参考例句：

• I heard a child sobbing loudly. 我听见有个孩子在呜呜地哭。
• Her eyes were red with recent sobbing. 她的眼睛因刚哭过而发红。

11 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

12 stark   

adj.荒凉的；严酷的；完全的；adv.完全地

参考例句：

• The young man is faced with a stark choice.这位年轻人面临严峻的抉择。
• He gave a stark denial to the rumor.他对谣言加以完全的否认。

13 exterior   

adj.外部的，外在的；表面的

参考例句：

• The seed has a hard exterior covering.这种子外壳很硬。
• We are painting the exterior wall of the house.我们正在给房子的外墙涂漆。

14 granite   

adj.花岗岩，花岗石

参考例句：

• They squared a block of granite.他们把一块花岗岩加工成四方形。
• The granite overlies the older rocks.花岗岩躺在磨损的岩石上面。

15 doomed   

命定的

参考例句：

• The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
• A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。

16 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》