关于巴黎圣母院大教堂的五件事
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Notre Dame Cathedral in the French capital of Paris is set to reopen to the public Sunday after a five-year-long rebuilding project.
法国首都巴黎的圣母院大教堂在历经五年的重建工程后，将于周日重新向公众开放。
The Cathedral had been badly damaged in a fire in 2019.
2019年，这座大教堂在一场火灾中严重受损。
The Roman Catholic religious center is considered a jewel of Gothic building design, a symbol of Paris and is a popular site to visit.
这座罗马天主教宗教中心被视为哥特式建筑设计的瑰宝，是巴黎的象征，也是热门的旅游景点。
The cathedral took 182 years to build between the 12th and 14th centuries.
这座大教堂建于12世纪至14世纪之间，历时182年才建成。
It holds some surprising stories.
它承载着一些令人惊讶的故事。
Here are five special things to know about this famous Parisian site:
以下是关于这个著名巴黎地标的五件特别之事：
The cathedral is considered France's geographic center.
这座大教堂被认为是法国的地理中心。
In front of the cathedral, a metal and stone marker in the road describes the place as the "starting point of the roads of France.
在大教堂前，道路上的一个金属和石头标记将这个地点描述为“法国道路的起点”。
'' This sign marks the starting point for measuring distances between Paris and other cities across the country.
这个标志标志着测量巴黎与全国其他城市之间距离的起点。
The marker was placed in 1924, but the idea of the cathedral as the center of the nation dates to 1769.
标记设立于1924年，但将大教堂视为国家中心的想法可追溯至1769年。
King Louis XV thought there should be a central site for France's growing system of roads.
路易十五认为，法国日益扩展的道路系统应该有一个中心站点。
That idea tied the nation’s geography to its heart in Paris.
这个想法将国家的地理与巴黎的心脏紧密相连。
Its famous statues were added in the 19th century
它著名的雕像是在19世纪添加的
Those frightening stone statues on Notre Dame might seem ancient, but not all of them are what they appear.
巴黎圣母院上那些骇人的石像也许看似古老，但并非所有石像都如表象所示。
The gargoyles are monster-shaped elements used to direct rainwater away from the building.
石像鬼是怪物形状的构件，用于将雨水引离建筑物。
They have been around since the time of the cathedral's construction.
它们自大教堂建造之时起就已存在。
But the monster-like creatures often seen in photos and movies are chimera, and they are much newer.
但照片和电影中常见的怪物状生物往往是奇美拉，它们要新得多。
In 1841, the French government asked the architects Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus to repair the then-collapsing building.
1841年，法国政府委托建筑师欧仁·维奥莱-勒-杜克和让-巴蒂斯特·拉苏斯修复当时濒临坍塌的建筑。
Viollet-le-Duc added these frightening-looking statues to make the cathedral seem more mysterious.
维奥莱-勒-杜克添加了这些面目狰狞的雕像，使大教堂显得更加神秘。
He drew ideas for the chimera from Victor Hugo's famous book The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
他从维克多·雨果的名著《巴黎圣母院》中汲取了设计这个嵌合体的灵感。
How to tell them apart?
如何区分它们？
Gargoyles resemble horizontal spikes coming out of the facade and have spouts to permit rainwater to flow out.
石像鬼形似从建筑立面伸出的水平尖刺，并带有出水口，以便雨水流出。
During the French Revolution, protesters changed Notre Dame.
法国大革命期间，抗议者改变了巴黎圣母院。
During the French Revolution, there were protests of religious centers.
法国大革命期间，曾发生过针对宗教中心的抗议活动。
In 1793, revolutionaries took away the cathedral’s religious symbols and renamed it "Notre-Dame de la Raison," or, in English, “Our Lady of Reason.”
1793年，革命者移除了大教堂的宗教标志，将其更名为“理性圣母院”，英文为“Our Lady of Reason”。
During that time, the cathedral held events celebrating science and new ideas and, for a short time, it was even used to store the alcoholic drink called wine.
在那段时间里，大教堂举办了庆祝科学和新思想的活动，甚至在短时间内还被用来存放一种叫做葡萄酒的酒精饮料。
Religious services started again in 1795 under the rule of Napoleon I.
1795年，在拿破仑一世的统治下，宗教仪式再次开始举行。
Statues without heads were found and repaired.
无头雕像被发现并修复。
In 1792, revolutionaries also cut the heads off 28 statues from the front of Notre Dame, thinking the statues were of French royalty.
1792年，革命者还砍下了圣母院正门28尊雕像的头颅，因为他们认为这些雕像代表的是法国皇室成员。
They were really representations of ancient kings of Judah, from stories in the Bible, the Christian holy book.
它们实际上是犹大古代国王的形象，源自基督教圣书《圣经》中的故事。
The heads were thought lost forever.
这些头颅曾被认为永远遗失了。
But in 1977, workers working in a courtyard in Paris uncovered hundreds of pieces of stone sculptures.
但在1977年，在巴黎一个庭院里工作的工人们发现了数百件石雕。
Experts confirmed they were the missing heads of Notre Dame's kings of Judah statues.
专家证实，这些正是巴黎圣母院犹大王雕像失踪的头部。
Today, 22 of the heads have been repaired and are shown at the Cluny Museum in Paris.
如今，其中22尊头像已修复完毕，并在巴黎的克吕尼博物馆展出。
The 2019 fire exposed a worldwide lack of outdoor lead pollution guidelines.
2019年的那场火灾暴露出全球在户外铅污染指导标准方面的缺失。
The 2019 fire that almost destroyed Notre Dame caused a serious health risk.
2019年那场几乎摧毁巴黎圣母院的大火造成了严重的健康风险。
When the flames melted the top of the building, large amounts of harmful lead dust were released into the air and came down across Paris.
当火焰熔化建筑物顶部时，大量有害的铅尘被释放到空气中，并飘落到巴黎各地。
Officials found there were no rules to measure the danger of outdoor lead dust.
官员们发现，没有规则来衡量户外铅尘的危险性。
This was not just a Paris issue — major cities like London and Rome, and even the World Health Organization — do not have guidelines for outdoor lead pollution.
这不只是巴黎的问题——伦敦和罗马等大城市，甚至世界卫生组织，都没有关于户外铅污染的指导原则。
The Notre Dame fire forced officials to take a closer look at their safety standards.
巴黎圣母院大火迫使官员们重新审视他们的安全标准。
It took four months for the city to complete an extensive cleaning of the city’s streets even as visitors and the citizens of Paris walked around the cathedral every day.
尽管游客和巴黎市民每天都在这座大教堂周围走动，这座城市仍花了四个月时间才对街道进行了全面清洁。
Now that you know these five things, you can enjoy seeing the photos of the new Notre Dame when it opens to the public.
既然你了解了这五件事，等新巴黎圣母院向公众开放时，你就可以尽情欣赏它的照片了。
I’m Caty Weaver.
我是凯蒂·韦弗。
Tom Nouvian reported this story for the Associated Press.
汤姆·努维安为美联社报道了这个故事。
Jill Robbins adapted it for Learning English.
吉尔·罗宾斯为《学习英语》改编了它。
