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They need to fix 300 pieces of copper shell to the framework.
他們得把300塊銅片安裝到鐵架上
with more than 300,000 rivets.
足足用了30多萬個鉚釘
Her robes have over 4000 square yards to cover her.
女神像的外袍有4000平方碼之大
Her outstretched arm is 42 feet long.
她伸展出去的手臂長42英尺
A finger nail weighes 3 and a half pounds.
一個指甲就有3磅半重
The scale of Liberty is unimaginable.
自由女神像的規模之大超乎想象
After six months of hazardous construction,there's no fatalities,
經過長達6個月充滿危險的工作總算有驚無險
the Liberty's 17-foot face is finally winched to position
女神像長達17英尺的臉終于通過絞盤安裝到位
It's bigger than Lincoln's on Mount Rushmore
比拉什莫爾山上林肯雕像的臉還大
It's said the sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi modeled the face on his own mother.
據說雕刻者弗雷德里克·奧古斯特·巴托爾迪是按照他自己母親的樣子來雕刻的
It takes 25 years for Liberty to acidize and turn green.
經過了25年的風吹雨打，自由女神像酸化并變成了綠色
A functioning lighthouse until 1902.
1902年之前 它被用作燈塔
The statue's official name is: Liberty Enlightening the World.
這座雕像的正式名字是：自由照耀世界
At first, the symbol of the alliance and friendships between France and the 13 colonies in the American Revolution.
首先，它象征了獨立戰爭期間法國和美國13個殖民地之間的盟約和友誼
It will come to represent much more.
它的象征意義漸漸不止于此
At the entries to New York Harbor,the Statue of Liberty becomes a beacon to the world,and a welcome to millions.
矗立在紐約港的入口處，自由女神像儼然成了全世界的燈塔迎接了幾百萬人的到來
Later, a poem by Emma Lazarus in her base,celebrates America as a land of refugees:
后來，她的基座上刻了一首愛瑪·拉扎露絲的詩慶祝美國成為了逃難者的樂土
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
歡迎你，那些疲乏的和貧困的聚在一起，渴望自由呼吸的大眾，那熙熙攘攘的被遺棄了的可憐的人們，把這些無家可歸的飽受顛沛的人們一起交給我 ，我在金門旁高擎自由的燈火
