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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a 2010 estimated population of 805,235. The only consolidated city-county in California,it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,243 people/mi² (6,655 people/km²). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States.San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland.In 1776, the Spanish established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi on the site.[17] The California Gold Rush in 1848 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000,[18] and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire,[19] San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater.[20] After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.Today, San Francisco is a popular international tourist destination,[21] renowned for its chilly summer fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture and its famous landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown. The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions,[22] helping to make San Francisco eighteenth place in the world's top producing cities, ninth in the United States, and fifteenth place in the top twenty Global Financial Centers.

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你说金门大桥大家不是更容易理解吗?What sights do you think of when you picture the city of San Francisco? How about the massive and lovely 4,200-foot orange-painted steel suspension bridge known as the Golden Gate Bridge? The famous bridge was completed and opened to pedestrian traffic on May 27, 1937. The next day, with a push of a telegraph button in the White House, President Franklin Roosevelt opened the bridge to cars, too. The Golden Gate is special for a number of reasons. Until 1964, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. (Today, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in Japan boasts the longest span at over 6,500 feet.) Do you know how it got its name? 当你想到旧金山是，你的脑海中会浮现什么？是不是被称做金门大桥的这座庄大又美丽，长达4200英尺的橙色铜铁吊桥？这座有名的桥梁在1937年5月27日完工且正式对行人开放？隔天，法兰克林‧罗斯福在白宫按下启动钮，金门大桥正式开放让汽车通行。金门大桥之所以特别，其实有几个原因。在1964年之前，金门大桥都还是全世界最长的吊桥。（现在世界最长的吊桥是横跨本州与四国之间的明石海峡桥，最宽之虚约有6500英尺。）你知道这座桥梁为什么取名为金门大桥吗？The area known as the Golden Gate is the channel formed where the mouth of the San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific Ocean. People used the name Golden Gate as early as 1846, even before the gold rush and long before the bridge. Explorer John C. Frémont was possibly the first to call the rocky straits the "Golden Gate."Construction of the bridge began in 1932, during the Great Depression, when jobs were scarce. The men working on the Golden Gate Bridge (a four-and-a-half-year project) were greatly envied, even though they worked in very dangerous conditions, balancing high above the freezing ocean waters. 这片被称之为“金门”（Golden Gate）的土地是旧金山湾与太平洋交界地。人们从1846年开始称这个地方为金门，比当地出现淘金热及金门大桥出现的时间都还要早。探险家约翰‧佛瑞蒙特（John C. Frémont）可能是第一个叫这个海峡湾“金门”的人。金门大桥的建造始于1932年经济大萧条时。虽然这些工人必须在非常危险的环境下工作，因为他们得在冰冷的海水上方保持身体的平衡，但是由于当时工作机会相当稀少，人们还是很羡慕在金门大桥工作的工人（这是一个4年半的建造计划）。介绍文章一:To combat the dangerous working conditions, bridge designer Joseph Strauss introduced the hard hat and a safety net that stretched end to end under the bridge. Nineteen workers fell. Saved by that net, they called themselves the Half-Way-to-Hell Club.In May 1987, to celebrate the bridge's 50th anniversary, some 300,000 people reenacted "Pedestrian Day '37" with an event dubbed "Bridgewalk '87." Two years later, the gracefully suspended bridge withstood a 7.1 magnitude earthquake without incident. 为了要对抗危险的工作环境，桥梁设计师约瑟夫‧史特劳斯（Joseph Strauss）引进了安全帽，并且在桥梁下方两端绑上一个安全网，因而拯救了19位坠落的工人。这些工人称自己为“离地域只有一半路程俱乐部”成员。1987年5月，为了庆祝这座桥梁建造完成50周年，大约有30万人设定了一个成为“1987年桥梁行走日”（Bridgewalk' 87）的庆祝活动，以呼应1937年的“1937年行人日”（Pedestrian Day '37）。两年之后，这座优雅的吊桥抵挡了一场规模7.1级的地震，没有任何损伤。介绍文章二:The orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge – probably the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed bridge in the world – are visible from almost every point of elevation in San Francisco. The only cleft in Northern California's 600-mile continental wall, for years this mile-wide strait was considered unbridgeable. As much an architectural as an engineering feat, the Golden Gate took only 52 months to design and build, and was opened in 1937. Designed by Joseph Strauss, it was the first really massive suspension bridge, with a span of 4200ft, and until 1959 ranked as the world's longest. It connects the city at its northwesterly point on the peninsula to Marin County and Northern California, rendering the hitherto essential ferry crossing redundant, and was designed to withstand winds of up to a hundred miles an hour and to swing as much as 27ft. Handsome on a clear day, the bridge takes on an eerie quality when the thick white fogs pour in and hide it almost completely. You can either drive or walk across. The drive is the more thrilling of the two options as you race under the bridge's towers, but the half-hour walk across it really gives you time to take in its enormous size and absorb the views of the city behind you and the headlands of Northern California straight ahead. Pause at the midway point and consider the seven or so suicides a month who choose this spot, 260ft up, as their jumping-off spot. Monitors of such events speculate that victims always face the city before they leap. In 1995, when the suicide toll from the bridge had reached almost 1000, police kept the figures quiet to avoid a rush of would-be suicides going for the dubious distinction of being the thousandth person to leap. Perhaps the best-loved symbol of San Francisco, in 1987 the Golden Gate proved an auspicious place for a sunrise party when crowds gathered to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Some quarter of a million people turned up (a third of the city's entire population); the winds were strong and the huge numbers caused the bridge to buckle, but fortunately not to break. 希望能对你有所帮助.