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Sterling Memorial Library
斯特林紀念圖書館
Yale University has a huge library system of 25 libraries, including Sterling Memorial Library, Law Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and so on and so forth.
耶魯大學擁有一個龐大的圖書館系統，共有25座圖書館，包括斯特林紀念圖書館、 法學院圖書館、貝克尼珍品與手稿圖書館，等等。
Housing approximately 12.5 million volumes in 20 buildings on campus, it is the second-largest academic library in North America as well as the world.
整個圖書館系統藏書約1250萬冊， 分布在校園內20座建筑物中，是北美乃至世界上規模第二大的研究型圖書館。
Sterling Memorial Library is the latest library at Yale and serves as the center of the library system. Completed in 1930，the library was designed by James Gamble Rogers (Yale 1889) as a memorial to John William Sterling (Yale 1864), who donated much of his fortune to Yale.
斯特林紀念圖書館是耶魯最大的圖書館，也是圖書館系統的核心。該館由耶魯 1889屆畢業生詹姆斯·甘布爾·羅杰斯設計，建成于1930年，是為了紀念約翰·威廉·斯特林。斯特林是耶魯大學1864屆畢業生，他將自己的大量財產捐給了耶魯大學。
On the sidewall of the entrance, there is an utterance of William Osier-Father of Modem Medicine: The Library is the Heart of the University. And Sterling Memorial Library lies in the center of the campus. The building has fifteen stack levels, each with its own category of books. In total, it contains about 4 million volumes in the humanities and some social science and also houses specialized research collections in area studies, as well as the department of Manuscripts and Archives. It is said that if put all the shelves in a line, it would be as long as 128 km, which is equal to the distance from New Haven to New York.
圖書館人口處刻著"現代醫學之父"威廉·奧斯勒的一句話：圖書館是大學的心臟。斯特林紀念圖書館就坐落在校園的中心地帶。 整個建筑有15層樓高，每一層都收藏有不同類別的圖書。圖書館收藏了共計400萬冊人文和社會科學藏書，還收藏了領域研究的專門資料；另外，手稿及檔案也收集于此。據說，如果把館中的書架一字排開，長度約達128公里，可從紐黑文一直排到紐約城。
The library is one of the most elaborate buildings on the Yale campus. Being an example of Gothic revival architecture, and adorned with thousands of panes of stained glass, it looks like a church. Rogers made it this way to demonstrate: library is a cathedral of knowledge.
斯特林紀念圖書館是校園中最精美的建筑物之一。它是典型的哥特式復古建筑， 加上上千個彩色玻璃窗的點綴，放眼望去宛如一座教堂。羅杰斯如此設計，就是要彰顯這樣一種理念：圖書館是知識的殿堂。
The main entrance has two doorways. The gates which were made of oak are now looking bronze. Above the lintels, there are a range of stone carvings showing ancient civilization: In the midst is a medieval sage holding a book; on the left side carved a Phoenician battleship symbolizing for Egypt as well as a winged bull for Babylon; on the right hand, there are Mayan serpent, Roman wolf, and Athenian owl. In addition, from left to right it is adorned with Cro-Magnon, Egyptian, Babylonian, Hebrew, Arabian, Ancient Greek, Ancient Chinese as well as Maya inscriptions④.They seem to say that here is the temple of human civilization, also a treasure house of all human writings and cultures.
圖書館的正門有兩個門洞。用橡木做成的大門呈古銅色；門楣上方是一組表現人類古代文明的石雕：一位中世紀哲人手執書籍位于中間，左邊是象征古代埃及文明的腓尼基戰船和象征巴比倫文明的有翼獸，右邊是象征瑪雅文明的蛇、象征歐洲文明的羅馬狼和雅典貓頭鷹；此外，石頭門楣上鐫刻著多種文字的碑文，從左至右分別為克羅馬努、古埃及、巴比倫、希伯來、阿拉伯、古希臘、中國和瑪雅的文字。所有這些似乎都在告訴人們，這里就是人類文明的圣殿，是一切人類文字和文化的寶庫。
