《This is New York》的英语作文

《This is New York》的英语作文

My first impressions of the skyscrapers in New York were a definite anticlimax.Like the pyramids and the Sphinx in Egypt they are over publicized and take fantastic proportion in the minds of people who have seen them.My first impressions of both are identical:.°Not bigger than that!.±But soon I was caught by the special fascination of New York,that strange city with its Mediterranean faces and its cold,efficient,Nordic soul.In no other city do the human types more remind one of Naples,Tel Aviv
Cairo.But these Mediterranean faces are without the warm,sensitive and paorssionate Mediterranean soul.The predominantly dark faces are,it were,a disguise,forthesoulbehindthemremindoneofLondonandBerlin.Thesasoul of New York is cold and indifferent,and brutally efficient,like the soul of Northern Europe.Cities like Rome or Paris or Vienna somehow seem to return one’s love but New York does not.And yet it seems to me,paradoxically,eminently lovable and sometimes painfully beautiful,like a dazzling but aloof woman.
There is other city in the world where feel more delightfully and absolutelyalnooneinNewYork,forinnoothercityaonerepecanople more indifferent toward each other.In other great cities in the world there people who are at least interestedinotherpeople’swallets,orcuriousabouteachareother for various reasons.Not so in New York,where the inhabitants not only ignore each other,but seem to look through each other,which is still a step father in the gradations of indifference.If somebody ignores you,he is still somehow ware of you,and you have at least a negative importance.But if he looks straight through you,as though you were invisible,you eventually begin to wonder if you really still cast a shadow