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Download the free Central Park app to your smartphone. Its map allows you to pinpoint where you are, but more interesting, the app has audio clips of celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld welcoming you to the Mall and Literary Walk, or Whoopi Goldberg discussing Wollman Rink (where she learned to ice skate). Then, pretend you’re an aristocrat in a Merchant Ivory film and step through one of the iron gates near 105th Street and Fifth Avenue into the formal, six-acre Conservatory Garden (an official quiet zone), which is divided into three garden styles: French, Italian and English (don’t miss the Frances Hodgson Burnett Memorial Fountain with its sculptures of a boy and a girl, created in honor of the author of “The Secret Garden”). In the Italian garden, climb the stairs to the tall wisteria pergola, sit on a shady bench and observe the 12-foot-tall jet fountain below. Now is a good time to press play on the app and listen to Candice Bergen discuss the gardens. Before leaving, look down. At your feet, medallions etched into the ground carry the names of the original 13 states, including New York.
在你的智能手機(jī)上下載免費(fèi)的中央公園應(yīng)用軟件。它帶有地圖，可以精確定位你所在的位置，但更有趣的是該應(yīng)用里有許多名人的音頻片段，比如杰瑞·宋飛(Jerry Seinfeld)歡迎你來到購物中心與文學(xué)大道，伍比·戈德堡(Whoopi Goldberg)介紹沃爾曼溜冰場，她就是在那里學(xué)會溜冰的。然后，假裝自己是莫謙特和艾弗里(Merchant Ivory)電影作品中的貴族，款款走過第105大街和第五大道附近的一座鐵門，就正式踏進(jìn)了方圓六英畝的保護(hù)區(qū)花園（一片真正寧靜的地方），分為三種園林風(fēng)格，分別是法蘭西、意大利和英倫風(fēng)。不要錯過了弗朗西絲·哈德遜·伯奈特（Frances Hodgson Burnett，英語世界著名的兒童文學(xué)作家——譯注）紀(jì)念噴泉，它的雕塑是一個男孩和一個女孩，向該作家的名作《秘密花園》(The Secret Garden)致敬。在意大利花園，可以拾級而上，登上一座高高的紫藤綠廊，坐在綠蔭下的長椅上，觀賞下面能噴射12英尺高水柱的噴泉。現(xiàn)在，打開應(yīng)用，按下“播放”鍵，聽坎迪斯·伯根(Candice Bergen)介紹這座園林，真是太合適了。離開之前，低頭望一眼，會發(fā)現(xiàn)你腳下的地面上鑲嵌著許多大大的圓形圖案，上面刻著美國最初十三個州的名稱，包括紐約州。
