學英語環遊世界 第390:雲旅行!六個關於艾菲爾鐵塔的有趣小知識

6 Fun Facts about the Eiffel Tower

六個關於艾菲爾鐵塔的有趣小知識

1. A fraud pretended to be the French

government and sold the Eiffel Tower to a

scrap metal dealer twice.有一名騙子假扮成

法國政府，把艾菲爾鐵塔賣給一位廢金屬回收商

兩次。

2. There are 1,665 steps to the top.艾菲爾

鐵塔到頂樓總共有1665階。

3. The elevator cables of the Eiffel Tower

were cut when Hitler occupied France.

艾菲爾鐵塔的電梯纜線在希特勒佔領法國時被切

斷。

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.

有一名法國作家極度厭惡艾菲爾鐵塔，所以他總

是在鐵塔底下吃午餐。因爲那裏是他唯一看不見

鐵塔的地方。

5. The workers need 60 tons of paint to

repaint the Eiffel Tower each time.

每次工人們替艾菲爾鐵塔重新上漆時需要六十噸

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!每年艾菲爾鐵塔的電

梯行駛過的距離大約爲十萬公里。這個距離等同

於環繞地球2.5圈。

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