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Matthew: Notre Dame is the most spectacular cathedral I've ever seen. How I love the lofty spires, beautiful mosaic and even the gargoyles!
馬修：巴黎圣母院是我見過的最壯觀的教堂。我真是喜歡那些高聳的尖塔，美麗的鑲嵌圖案，甚至是那些怪獸！
Bob: So you like gothic architecture, then?
鮑勃：這么說你是喜歡哥特式建筑了？
Matthew: I think I do, if they are all as grand as the Notre Dame.
馬修：我覺得是這樣，如果哥特式建筑都像巴黎圣母院那么宏偉的話。
Bob: Many churches, cathedrals and abbeys in Europe are in the gothic style. The flying buttress，one distinctive characteristic of the gothic architecture, is an effective combination of utility with ornament.
鮑勃：歐洲的許多大小教堂和修道院都是哥特風(fēng)格的。哥特式建筑的特征之一是飛拱，它是實(shí)用和裝飾的有效結(jié)合。
Matthew: Would you care to explain?
馬修：麻煩你解釋一下好嗎？
Bob: The Notre Dame was not originally designed with the flying buttress. When the wall was built higher and higher, it could not carry the weight. So the architects added the flying buttress to support it in the form of the beautiful arch.
鮑勃：最初設(shè)計(jì)巴黎圣母院時(shí)并沒有飛拱，當(dāng)墻越蓋越高，卻開始支撐不了其重量，于是建筑師們才加入了這些形狀漂亮的飛拱來加以支撐。
Matthew: Thank goodness they did it.
馬修：謝天謝地他們這么做了。
Bob: I think so too.
鮑勃：我也這么認(rèn)為。
