美文欣賞- The Richest Town in America
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14 The Richest Town in America
Where’s the richest town in America? WORTH magazine 1)unveiled its 6th annual list out of the 250 richest towns and the most valuable homes, and the winner is Jupiter Island, Florida, 30 miles north of West Palm Beach on the Atlantic coast.
Jupiter Island Florida, an Atlantic coast 2)barrier island, roughly 10 miles long, a quarter to a half mile wide. But at a 3)median home price at $3.9 million and the lower end homes running in the 4 to 5 million range, down near the National Wildlife Refuge, the people who live on Jupiter come for privacy. Few if any homes are visible from the road. There’s nothing commercial here. And they come for quiet, real quiet. In some towns, you can’t make noise between certain hours here - you can’t make noise between October and April. The hand painted ceilings, the horizonless pool, the master suite, the 10,000 square feet, the 14-million-dollar price 4)tag on this home is no where near the top end. There are homes in Jupiter in the 30 and 40-million-dollar bracket.
The runners up to Jupiter are No.2 - Atherton, California; No.3 - Aspen, Colorado; 4th - Los Altos Hills, California; and 5th - Belvedere, California.
1、unveil v. 揭幕，公之于眾
2、barrier n. 障礙物
3、median a. 中等的
4、tag n. 標(biāo)簽
14 美國最富的城鎮(zhèn)
美國最富的城鎮(zhèn)是哪兒?《價(jià)值》雜志的第六屆排名公布了250個(gè)最富的城鎮(zhèn)及家庭，其中名列首位的是佛羅里達(dá)州的位于大西洋岸邊、西棕櫚海灘以北30英里的朱庇特島。
佛州朱庇特島猶如大西洋上一道天然屏障，長(zhǎng)約10英里，寬1/4至半英里。一個(gè)中等住家的價(jià)格是390萬美元，最便宜的住宅也要4、5百萬美元。在國家野生動(dòng)物園的近旁，人們住朱庇特島是為了隱私而來的。從路旁幾乎見不到住戶。這兒也沒有商業(yè)氣息。他們是為了安靜而來--真正的安靜。在有些城鎮(zhèn)，你在特定時(shí)段里是不能發(fā)出噪音的--從十月到四月你不能發(fā)出任何噪音。這套房子有手繪天花板、大泳池、豪華套房，大小1萬平方英尺，房?jī)r(jià)是1400萬美元，不過此價(jià)并非最貴的，朱庇特島上有的房屋可賣到3、4千萬美元呢。
富裕程度次于朱庇特島的是：第二名加州的阿瑟頓，第三名科羅拉多州的阿斯班，第四名加州的洛阿圖斯，第五名加州的貝維德爾。
