【轻松英文阅读】瓜塔佩
时间：2018-12-28 作者：英语课 分类：轻松英文阅读
英语课
Guatapé is a beautiful city in Colombia that is known for its bright coloring and beautiful art. From the moment visitors enter the city they are welcomed with a handcrafted, unique sign and encouraged down the road with bright paints and tile work. Every part of the town features a bright paint job and whimsical design.
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Beyond the bright colors that playfully cover the building fronts the town is also especially known for its 3D art pieces and paintings at the base of all of the buildings, or zocalos. The Zocalos pull the creative inspiration together across the town and make artwork accessible in the streets. The drawings range from sprawling 1 swirls 2 and renditions of the townscape to traditional animal portraits and some of the best sculpture zocalos are human masks that stick out of the building bases. There is a unique vibrancy 3 that sets this town apart!
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Just outside of the town there is some unique history to explore as well with a gigantic rock formation that features an exposed vertical 4 face standing 5 200 meters high which visitors can scale up to find food vendors 6 and a viewing area. From the manmade lake nearby visitors can also see the top of the cross of the old Guatape Church poking 7 out of the water!
1 sprawling
adj.蔓生的，不规则地伸展的v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的现在分词 )；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展；四肢伸展坐着（或躺着）
- He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV. 他伸开手脚坐在电视机前的一张扶手椅上。
- a modern sprawling town 一座杂乱无序拓展的现代城镇
2 swirls
n.旋转( swirl的名词复数 )；卷状物；漩涡；尘旋v.旋转，打旋( swirl的第三人称单数 )
- Swirls of smoke rose through the trees. 树林中升起盘旋的青烟。 来自辞典例句
- On reaching the southeast corner of Himalaya-Tibet, It'swirls cyclonically across the Yunnan Plateau. 在到达喜马拉雅--西藏高原东南角处，它作气旋性转向越过云南高原。 来自辞典例句
3 vibrancy
n.活跃；震动
- I like the vibrancy of her character.我喜欢她的活泼性格。
- Tom felt himself being drawn towards her vibrant personality. 汤姆感觉自己被她充满朝气的个性所吸引。
4 vertical
adj.垂直的，顶点的，纵向的；n.垂直物，垂直的位置
- The northern side of the mountain is almost vertical.这座山的北坡几乎是垂直的。
- Vertical air motions are not measured by this system.垂直气流的运动不用这种系统来测量。