尼亚加拉瀑布英文

尼亚加拉瀑布(Niagara Falls)位于加拿大安大略省和美国纽约州的交界处，是北美东北部尼亚加拉河上的大瀑布，也是美洲大陆最著名的奇景之一。平均流量5,720立方米/秒，与伊瓜苏瀑布、维多利亚瀑布并称为世界三大跨国瀑布。

风景名胜

在尼亚加拉瀑布，为了让游客充分观赏瀑布并领略瀑布的磅礴气势，这里准备了各种丰富多彩的活动，美、加两国在河的两岸个建造了一个码头，配备了4艘游船，每艘能载客数百人，其中“雾中少女”（Maid of the Mist)号游船最为有名。另一个到访尼亚加拉瀑布必去的景点是加拿大境内的“Journey Behind the Falls”（瀑布后之旅），这是由西尼克隧道改建的用来欣赏尼亚加拉瀑布的极佳的观景点。在Table Rock House内的入口处领一件黄色的斗篷，然后搭乘电梯降到几十米深的地下，沿着两条隧道就可以来到突出的平台上欣赏加拿大瀑布的正侧面，仿佛置身于瀑布之中。

最佳旅游时间

夏季去最好，此时尼亚加拉大瀑布水量最大，最为壮观，且因为游览大瀑布时最佳的方式是乘坐始于1846年的Maid of the Mist号游轮前往两道瀑布旁观景，所以巨大的水汽和瀑布下泻扬起的水珠会弄湿衣服。这样的话夏季去不会弄得感冒。当然，游客买票后自然会领到一件一次性雨衣，但这件雨衣并不能完全使你摆脱湿身的危险。

历史文化

“尼亚加拉瀑布”也直译作拉格科或尼加拉瓜瀑布，“尼亚加拉”在印第安语中意为“雷神之水”，印第安人认为瀑布的轰鸣是雷神说话的声音。在他们实际上见到瀑布之前，就听到酷似持续不断打雷的声音，故他们把它称为“Onguiaahra” (后称Niagara)，意即“巨大的水雷”。

尼亚加拉大瀑布英文介绍

NiagaraFalls, one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, can only be described asbreath taking. No matter what time of year, whether it’s the beautiful rainbowsglistening in the mist, or the magnificent ice bridge created by the cold ofwinter, Niagara Falls always seems to amaze it’s viewers. Schoolbooks called itone of the greatest wonders of the world, bringing to mind pictures of a faraway, unattainable place. It seemed like a larger-than-life miracle of nature.As a child, I believed that Niagara Falls, like Mt. Rushmore and the GrandCanyon were all very real attractions of the world. I was given the facts andnumbers, but never could I imagine the actual size and greatness of the falls. 

被称为世界七大奇景之一的尼亚加拉大瀑布位于加拿大和美国交界的尼亚加拉河上，它那丰沛而浩瀚的水汽和磅礴的气势，使所有前来观赏的游人都为之震撼。

　　尼亚加拉河长约56米，上接海拔174米的伊利湖，下注海拔75米的安大略湖。这99米的落差，已足以形成湍急的水流，而两湖之间横亘着的一道石灰岩断崖，更使水量丰富的尼亚加拉河水在经过这里时骤然陡落，水势澎湃，声震如雷。

　　从高处的伊利湖到低处的安大略湖，在经过河床绝壁上的半岛时，湖水分隔成了两部份，分别流入加拿大和美国，形成了一大一小两个瀑布。这两个瀑布在加拿大这边的景致比在美国看起来要更加美丽壮观。

　Niagara Falls comprises three distinct cataracts. The tallestare the American and Bridal Veil falls on the American side, separated by tinyLuna Island and plunging over jagged rocks in a 180ft drop; the broad HorseshoeFalls which curve their way over to Canada are probably the most impressive.They date back a mere twelve thousand years, when the retreat of melting glaciers allowed water trapped in Lake Erie to gush north to Lake Ontario. Backthen the falls were seven miles downriver, but constant erosion has cut them back to their present site. The falls are colorfully lit up at night, and manysay they're most beautiful in winter, when the grounds are covered in snow and the waters turn to ice.

　　The best views on the American side are from the Prospect Point Observation Tower(daily; 50￠), and from the area at its base where the water rushes past;Terrapin Point on Goat Island in the middle of the river has similar views of Horseshoe Falls. The nineteenth-century tight rope-walker Blondin crossed the Niagara repeatedly near here, and even carried passengers across on his back;other suicidal fools over the years have taken the plunge in barrels. One survivor among the many fatalities was the Englishman Bobby Leach, who wentover in a steel barrel in July 1911 and had to spend the rest of the year in hospital. That practice has since been banned (though a couple of maniacs didit in summer 1995 and came away with minor bruises), for reasons which become self-evident when you approach the towering cascade on the not-to-be-missed Maid of the Mist boat trip from the foot of the observation tower (summer Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-6pm; $8.50; 716/284-4233). From Goat Island, the Cave of the Winds tour leads down to the base of the falls by elevator to within almost touching distance of the water (mid-May to late Oct;$5.50). A combination pass for these and other attractions costs $16. Rainbow helicopter tours (716/284-2800) are a more expensive proposition at $40 per person for a ten-minute ride. To check the view out from Niagara Falls,Ontario, it's a twenty-minute walk across the Rainbow Bridge to the Canadian side (25￠each way; bring ID, and check with US Immigration officials before heading across), where you get an arguably better view, bigger crowds and even more tawdry commercialism. Driving across is inadvisable: the toll for a car is just 75￠, but par** on the other side is upwards of $15.

　　As you look on in awe, reflect that you're seeing only about half the volume of water - the rest is diverted to hydroelectric power stations. The full story of this engineering feat is related at the free Niagara Power Project Visitors Center in nearby Lewiston (July & Aug daily 9am-6pm; Sept-June daily 10am-5pm; 716/285-3211). With your own transportation it's also possible to trace the in hospitable Niagara Gorge two miles along the dramatic Robert Moses Parkway to the Whirlpool Rapids, a violent mael strom swollen by broken trees and other flotsam.

Ten miles east of Niagara Falls, the town of LOCKPORT takes its name from the series of locks that raise and lower boats some 65ft at the western end of the Erie Canal. You can see the impressive flight of locks from the Pine Street Bridge, or up close on canal boat tours