san francisco是旧金山的意思。San Francisco音标[.sænfrən'siskəu]，中文译为旧金山，又译“三藩市”、“圣弗朗西斯科”，美国加利福尼亚州太平洋沿岸港口城市，世界著名旅游胜地、加州（人口）第四大城市。1、The money will go to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.这笔钱将交给...
The city grew into a major port during the gold rush of 1848, and survived a devastating earthquake and fire in 1906. Today it is the center of a large metropolitan area around San Francisco Bay. San Fran·cis′can (-kən) n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, ...
Jack London is remembered for having famously eulogized the earthquake: "Not in history has a modern imperial city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone."[84]【参考译文】杰克·伦敦因对地震的著名悼词而被人铭记:“历史上从未有过一个现代帝国城市被如此彻底地摧毁。旧金山不复存在。”[84...
One of the most unique is the earthquake simulator. But there are others, like the eel garden and fog room.This really is one of the coolest places in San Francisco!There’s something for all ages here, however it’s a particularly good spot if you’re traveling with young children. Or...
And it was stopped. In 1959 the Board reversed the decision and halted the Embarcadero Freeway and cancelled several other freeway projects that had not begun construction. (The Loma Prieta earthquake of ‘89 closed the 1.2 mile stub of the Embarcadero Freeway that had already been constructed...
"To say nothing of the mortgage on my house and on the nicest little best paying flat building in San Francisco since the earthquake." Well, I guess we'll just sign on this steward at sixty a month and all he asks, or I'll just naturally quit you cold on the next fast steamer to...
Mission San Francisco de Asís isn’t precisely off the beaten path. The city’s namesake and oldest building (the original cathedral collapsed during the 1906 earthquake) is in the thick of theMission Districtnext toMission Dolores Park, where throngs of hipsters throw ultimate frisbee contests...
Look for the Trade Mark building, once home to the Sing Chong Bazaar. Chinatown was established in 1848, but it was after the 1906 earthquake that merchants had a blank canvas on which to design this city spectacle. What is a San Francisco scavenger hunt?
The exposition had been an idea on the burner since 1904 with the pending opening of the canal, but the devastation of the earthquake and fire, knocking down twenty-eight thousand buildings in the city, caused its delay. By 1909, San Francisco had competition for the exposition from San Dieg...
“These eighty-two years later I find it difficult to describe my own personal feelings about the earthquake that day. As an eight-year-old boy I was not frightened then by the actual earthquake. The tremor and the noise of the breakage did not disturb me. That for me was just a more...