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Are These US Treasures about to be Destroyed?
Many old buildings and aging neighborhoods across the United States look like they are ready to be torn down and replaced. But the National Trust for Historic Preservation believes that such areas and structures are actually important links to America's past.
The National Trust is a private, nonprofit group that works to save America's historic places. Katherine Malone-France works with the group. She told VOA, "All old places, they have incredible power to bring people together and to provide us with continuity in the stories of who we are and where we want to go."
The National Trust is concerned about an old, unused public housing development in Buffalo, New York. It is called Willert Park Courts. It was the first housing project in the state built specifically for African Americans.
The group says another reason to save Willert Park Courts is that many buildings provide an example of early modernism. That kind of building design often shows events from everyday life.
An example of an aging neighborhood is the Tenth Street Historic District of Dallas, Texas. Its old buildings date back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. They were mostly settled by former slaves after the U.S. Civil War. At least 70 of the area's 260 homes have already been destroyed.
The National Trust also has expressed concern about what has been called the "Superman" building in the eastern state of Rhode Island. Built in 1928, the high-rise building once housed the Industrial Trust Company, one of the largest and most powerful banks in the northeastern U.S. The Industrial Trust Company later became part of the Bank of America. The building has been empty since Bank of America moved out six years ago.
All three areas are among the places on the National Trust's list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2019.
Other places on the list include one of Puerto Rico's last historic coffee plantation houses, ancestral places in Utah, a railroad bridge in North Dakota and Nashville's Music Row.
A place like Music Row is not just about saving individual buildings. It is also about protecting the community to which they are connected. The goal of the National Trust is to make sure that places like Music Row remain unharmed. However, the group also seeks to find a way to keep the places in active use, serving the surrounding community.
Malone-France says losing such places would leave Americans without a real connection to the past and to places where American history happened.
She adds, "They're important to individuals, and they're important to their local communities, but also they are...representative of stories that are important parts of our larger American story and places help tell those stories."
I'm Jonathan Evans.
重点解析
1.torn down 减小；关低；拆掉
They've torn down wooden fences and broken branches off trees.
他们拆掉了木栅栏，并砍去了一些树枝。
2.make sure 确信
Make sure you are strapped in very well, or else you will fall out.
一定要系好安全带，否则会摔出去。
3.bring together 使...团结起来
He's trying to bring together various strands of radical philosophic thought.
他正试图把各种激进的哲学思想综合在一起。
4.move out 搬离
They had a huge row and Sally moved out of the house.
他们大吵一架之后萨莉搬了出来。
5.However, the group also seeks to find a way to keep the places in active use, serving the surrounding community.
find a way to 寻找...方法
We must find a way to resolve these problems before it's too late.
我们必须及时找到解决这些问题的方法。
The nouveau riche have to find a way to be accepted.
暴发户不得不去想法获得大家的接受和认可。
6.DIts old buildings date back to the late 1800s and early 1900s.
date back to 追溯到
My family has a vase, which is said to date back to Ming Dynasty.
我家有个花瓶，据说是从明代传下来的。
Oxford and Cambridge date back to the thirteenth century.
牛津和剑桥的历史可追溯到十三世纪。
参考译文
美国的历史建筑将不复存在？
美国各地的很多历史建筑和老旧社区似乎都即将被拆除和翻新。但是，美国国家历史建筑信托基金认为，这些地区和建筑其实与美国的过去有很重要的联系。
国家历史建筑信托基金是一家私营、非营利组织，致力于拯救美国历史古迹。凯瑟琳·马隆弗兰斯（Katherine Malone-France）就职于该组织。她告诉美国之音：“所有古老的场所都拥有令人惊诧的力量，让人们聚集在一起，让我们不断讲述关于我们来自何方，去往何处的故事。”
美国国家历史建筑信托基金对纽约州布法罗市一处陈旧，荒废的公共住宅区表示了关注，它被称为Willert Park Courts——该州首个专门为非裔美国人建造的住房项目。
该组织表示，拯救Willert Park Courts项目的另一个原因是这里的很多建筑都是早期现代主义风格，这类建筑风格通常展示着日常生活中的事件。
德克萨斯州达拉斯市第十街历史街区是陈旧的社区之一。这里的建筑可以追溯到19世纪末到20世纪初。美国内战结束后，这个街区的居民大多是前奴隶。该街区260栋住宅至少有70栋被毁。
美国国家历史建筑信托基金还对美国东部的罗德岛州所谓的“超人”建筑表示担忧。这栋建于1928年高层建筑曾是工业信托公司的所在地，它是美国东北部规模最大、实力最强的银行之一。该公司后来成为美国银行的一部分。这栋建筑自6年前美国银行迁出后一直空置。
这三个地区都被美国国家历史建筑信托基金列入2019年美国11个最濒危历史古迹名单。
名单内还包括波多黎各最后一处历史悠久的咖啡种植庄园、犹他州的祖先遗迹、北达科他州的一座铁路桥和纳什维尔市的音乐街。
音乐街等场所不仅仅要保护单个建筑物，还涉及到保护与之相连的社群。美国国家历史建筑信托基金的目标是确保像音乐街这样的地方不受损。然而，该组织也在寻求找到一种途径，维持这些地方的积极利用，为周边社区服务。
马龙弗兰斯表示，失去这些地方会让美国人与过去以及美国历史发生地失去真正的联系。
她补充说：“它们对个人和当地社区都很重要。但是它们也是美国历史的重要组成部分，也能帮助我们讲述这些历史。”
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