中英對照讀新聞》San Francisco Battles Skateboarders Over the City’s Ugliest Fountain 舊金山當局與滑板族為該市的最醜噴泉而戰
2026年4月27日,施工隊開始拆除美國加州舊金山市的瓦朗寇特噴泉。(美聯社)
◎ 張沛元
Skateboarders are trying to pull off their gnarliest trick: saving San Francisco’s most hated monument from extinction.
(美國加州舊金山的)滑板族正設法做出他們最困難的招式:拯救當地最為人詬病的紀念碑免於消失。
The city wants to take down Vaillancourt Fountain. Skaters say the structure—brutalist water-pumping limbs of mottled white concrete that rise out of the ground near the waterfront—is an icon.
市政當局想要拆掉瓦朗寇特噴泉。滑板族說,這座臨水拔地而起、由數條粗大斑駁白色混凝土抽水管道組成的粗獷主義建築物,是舊金山的象徵。
Critics call it a ‘jumble of nothing’ and the concrete deposit of a giant dog with square intestines. To skaters, Vaillancourt Fountain is hallowed ground.
批評者稱該噴泉為「啥也不是的一坨亂七八糟」,宛如方形腸子大狗狗排出的混凝土糞便。但對滑板族而言,瓦朗寇特噴泉是聖地。
新聞辭典
pull something off:片語,成功做成…(某件困難的事)。例句:US President Donald Trump said he pulled off the biggest deal of his presidency.(美國總統川普說,他達成其總統任期內的最大一筆交易。)
save someone/something from (someone/something):慣用語,將某人或某事拯救出來。例句:A young girl saved herself from an apparent kidnapping attempt right outside her home.(1名年輕女孩成功自救,免於差點在家門口被綁架。)
