你敢走嗎？世界最長最高玻璃橋亮相中國
Acrophobiacs beware… China’s newest bridge isn’t for the faint of heart.
恐高症人羣注意了……中國新造的這座橋可不適合膽小的人。
Stretching 380m across a section of Zhangjiajie’s Grand Canyon, the new pedestrian bridge will have a completely glass floor. Visitors who dare venture forth can see the full 300m drop to the canyon’s bottom below. Construction is expected to be complete in July, and the bridge will open to visitors in October.
該橋橫跨張家界大峽谷的一部分，長達380米，新的人行天橋橋面的完全是玻璃製造。冒險的遊客們可以從上面看到300米以下的峽谷底部。建造預計7月徹底完工，橋將在10月向遊客們開放。
This isn’t the region’s first towering glass floor – a glass skywalk hugs the cliff of Tianmen Mountain – but the Grand Canyon instalment is expected to be the longest and tallest glass-bottomed bridge in the world. Outside of setting records, the glass architecture is meant to minimise any disruption to the surrounding scenery.
和該地區建立的第一座玻璃底橋——擁抱天門山懸崖的人行天橋相比，它可能不是第一座玻璃橋，但有望成爲世界上最長最高的玻璃底橋。除了打破紀錄以外，這座玻璃建築意味着減少了遮掩周圍景色的部分。
“I believe in nature, harmony, balance and beauty. Nature is beautiful as is,” said Haim Dotan, the Tel Aviv-based architect who designed the bridge’s concept. “The Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge was designed to be invisible as possible – a white bridge disappearing into the clouds.”
“我相信自然、和諧、平衡和美感。大自然本身就是美的化身，”設計出這座橋的概念設計師，住在特拉維夫的渡堂海說道，“張家界玻璃橋被的設計就讓其能儘可能的‘隱形’——就好像一座白色的橋消失在雲裏。”
With a suspension constructed only of two side steel beams, banisters with side-hanging stay cables and a glass deck, the bridge may look minimal – but it can withstand high winds, earthquakes, frost and the weight of 800 visitors at a time.
只有兩個側鋼樑構成的懸浮結構，欄杆具有側掛斜拉索和玻璃甲板，使得橋看起來可能並不‘明顯’——但它經受得住高風，地震，霜凍，並且同時能承受800個人的重量。
