【英文原文】

New River Bridge, West Virginia, 1999
"Spanning a West Virginia canyon 3,000 feet [914 meters] wide, the New River Gorge Bridge transformed 44,000 tons of steel and concrete into structural art as graceful as the morning mists drifting below it. Opened in 1977, it replaced an 1889 trestle—and 40 white-knuckled minutes on one-lane switchbacks—with 40 seconds on cruise control."

—From “New River’s Deep Soul,” June 1999, National Geographic magazine

【中文翻譯】

新河谷大橋橫跨西佛吉尼亞一個3000英尺（914米）寬的峽谷，耗用44000噸鋼鐵和混凝土，鑄就了一個優雅如橋下縹緲晨霧的建筑藝術。該橋于1977年開通，它以40秒的巡航控制取代了1889年需用時40分鐘的之字形單車道高架橋。

——摘自1999年《國家地理雜志》6月號《新河峽的靈魂深處》

作者： Susie Post Rust 來源：《國家地理》雜志