standing in contrast to its humble beginnings as a small jesuit chapel, the notre dame basilica is now one of the largest churches in north america, with soaring towers and a grandiose altar.

最初的圣母大教堂只是一个小小的耶稣会信徒小礼拜堂，如今它已经成为北美最大的教堂之一，有着高耸入云的尖塔和华丽的祭坛。

the cathedral of notre dame in paris was among the first churches to have flying buttresses.

巴黎圣母院是首批有飞拱的教堂之一。

one bouquiniste near notre dame presided over a stall with only a handful of books, but rows of paintings of eiffel towers, key-rings, ashtrays and even house number plaques and 「dangerous dog」 signs.

巴黎圣母院旁边的一个书摊，摊位上只摆了一小摞书，其余是成排成排的埃菲尔铁塔画、钥匙扣、烟缸、甚至还有门牌号码板和写着「有狗危险」的标示牌。

following the success of st. denis, other cathedrals were soon begun at notre dame (1163–c1250), bourges (1192–1275), chartes (1194–1260), and rheims (1211–1290).

圣德尼修道院建筑成功后，其他教堂很快就开始在巴黎圣母院(1163-1250),布尔日(1192-1275),chartes(1194-1260)和兰斯(1211-1290)成功建造。

he set up radio notre dame and a catholic tv station; in his 70s, in 1997 and 2000, he organised joyous world youth days in paris and in rome.

他设立了圣母玛利亚广播电台和天主教电视转播台；在1997到2000年，他已经70多岁了，还在巴黎和罗马组织了充满欢乐的世界青年日。

richard allen, a notre dame graduate who served as president reagan「s national security adviser, argues that obama should be permitted to speak but said he should not be honoured with a degree.

圣母玛利亚教会大学毕业生，担任里根国家安全咨询师的理查德-艾伦辩称：应该允许奥巴马演讲，但不应授予其荣誉学位。

it」s important to remember that notre dame is a catholic institution.

他还说：「最重要的是要牢记圣母玛利亚教会大学是一所教会机构。

notre dame planned from the start to confer an honorary doctorate on obama, as it has done for eight of his predecessors, beginning with franklin d. roosevelt.

圣母院大学从一开始就打算授予奥巴马名誉博士学位，正如以前的八位先例一样，从富兰克林·罗斯福开始。

as a testament to the correlation between glorious spaces and heavenly thoughts, the notre dame de paris has stood for 750 years as the apex of european religious architecture.

作为荣光之地与神圣思想互相关联的证明──巴黎圣母院，至今已有750年的历史了，它是欧洲宗教建筑登峰造极之作。

one of the finest examples of french gothic architecture is the notre dame cathedral, attracting 13 million visitors each year.

巴黎圣母院大教堂是最有名的法国哥特式建筑，每年吸引了1千3百万的游客。

in 1710 workers digging tombs below notre dame found the blocks of a more decorative pillar erected 17 centuries earlier by seine boatmen in what was then gallo-roman lutetia.

1710年，工人在挖掘巴黎圣母院地下古墓时发现了一块被修饰的竖直的石块，他大概是在17世纪早期被古罗马时期巴黎塞纳河船工所建。

a british theater company has dropped the word hunchback from its stage adaptation of the classic novel the hunchback of notre dame to avoid offending disabled people, newspapers reported.

据报载，为避免冒犯残疾人，英国一家演出公司从改编自经典名着的《巴黎圣母院的驼背》的剧名中去掉了“驼背」一词。

sure enough, the scenes captured by television cameras yesterday, as the law came into effect, of two veiled women being arrested by the police outside notre dame cathedral were dramatic.

果然不出所料，当该禁令在昨天付诸实施之际，有电视镜头拍到警察在巴黎圣母院外逮捕了两名戴面纱的女子，这段视频引发了强烈的关注。

then, in 1431, a ten-year old king of england, henry vi, travelled from london to paris to be crowned king of france in notre dame cathedral.

1431年，年仅10岁的英国国王亨利六世，从伦敦远赴巴黎，在巴黎圣母院加冕为法国国王。

modeled after the grand notre dame in paris, construction on la basílica del voto nacional in quito began in the late 19th century and is still ongoing.

这座脱胎于巴黎圣母院的大教堂位于厄瓜多尔首都基多，于19世纪末期破土，至今仍在修建中。

in the second half of the twelfth century the beginnings of polyphony developed in the school of notre dame in paris from its antecedents in the great abbey of st. martial in limoges.

十二世纪下半叶，复调开始从巴黎圣母院的学校里发展出来。

another university, arizona state, has declined to give obama an honorary degree when he speaks there before his notre dame address.

奥巴马在圣母玛利亚教会大学演讲之前，曾在另一所亚利桑那州的学校里做过演讲。

pictured above, venus and mercury were imaged next to the famous notre dame cathedral in paris, france.

上面的照片拍到金星和水星在着名的巴黎圣母院近旁。

france held an ecumenical religious ceremony for relatives and friends of those on the plane at notre dame cathedral in paris on wednesday, attended by president nicolas sarkozy.

法国周三在巴黎圣母院为遇难同胞的亲人和朋友举行了一场宗教活动，萨科奇总统出席了该活动。

we would be outraged if notre dame cathedral or the great pyramid of giza were demolished to make way for modern buildings.

如果有人毁了巴黎圣母院和吉萨大金字塔来建高楼大厦的话，人们肯定会异常愤慨。

the im2gps algorithm readily located photographs of such landmarks as the cathedral of notre dame in paris.

图片定位算法可以随时定位诸如巴黎圣母院等地标建筑的照片。