6 Fun Facts about the Eiffel Tower
六个关于艾菲尔铁塔的有趣小知识
1. A fraud pretended to be the French
government and sold the Eiffel Tower to a
scrap metal dealer twice.有一名骗子假扮成
法国政府,把艾菲尔铁塔卖给一位废金属回收商
两次。
2. There are 1,665 steps to the top.艾菲尔
铁塔到顶楼总共有1665阶。
3. The elevator cables of the Eiffel Tower
were cut when Hitler occupied France.
艾菲尔铁塔的电梯缆线在希特勒占领法国时被切
断。
4. A French writer hated the Eiffel Tower,
so he ate his lunch at the base of it all
the time. It was the only place that he
couldn't see the tower.
有一名法国作家极度厌恶艾菲尔铁塔,所以他总
是在铁塔底下吃午餐。因为那里是他唯一看不见
铁塔的地方。
5. The workers need 60 tons of paint to
repaint the Eiffel Tower each time.
每次工人们替艾菲尔铁塔重新上漆时需要六十吨
的油漆。
6. The elevator of the Eiffel Tower travels
about 100,000 km each year. That's 2.5
times around the Earth!每年艾菲尔铁塔的电
梯行驶过的距离大约为十万公里。这个距离等同
于环绕地球2.5圈。
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