147 A Great Architect—Leoh Ming Pei
147 建筑大师——贝聿铭
Leoh Ming Pei, the 1983 Laureate of the Pritzker Architiecture Pr17.e, is a founding partner of L. M. Pei & Partners based in New York City He was born in China in 1917. the son of a prominent banker He came to the United States iii 1935 10 study architecture at the Massachusetts Iutc of Technology and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
贝幸铭，1983年普里茨克尔建筑奖的获得者，是纽约贝幸铭股份公司的创建人之一。他于1917年生在中国，他的父亲是一位出色的银行家。1935年，他来到美国。在麻省理工学院和哈佛设计研究生院学习建筑。
Pei bas designed over forty projects in this country and abroad. twenty of which have been award winners His more prominent commissions have included the Ea s Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library near Boston the West Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Fragrant Hill Hotel near Beijing, China designed to graft advanced technology onto the roofs of indigenous building and thereby sow the seed of a new, distinctly Chinese form of modern architecture and the Texas Commerce Tower in Houston and so on.
贝幸铭在国内外设计了40多个建筑项目。其中就有20项获奖。他设计出来的较为出色的项目有华盛顿国家艺术馆东楼、波士顿附近的约翰·菲茨杰拉德·肯尼迪图书馆、波士顿美术博物馆西翼、中国北京附近的香山饭店——该设计将先进技术用于传统的屋顶上从而开创出一种新的、有鲜明中国特色;的现代建筑形式，还有休斯敦的得克萨斯商业城等。
He has designed facilities and university buildings on the campuses of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. the University of Rochester, Cornell University. the Choate School. Syracuse University. New York University and the University of Hawaii. He has been selected to design the headquarters for the Bank of China in Hong Kong.
他曾为麻省理工学院，罗切斯特大学、康奈尔大学，乔特学校，锡拉丘兹大学，纽约大学和夏威夷大学设计艺术场所和校内建筑，他还被选中设计了香港中国银行总部。
As a student. he was awarded the MIT Traveling Fellowship. and the Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship at Harvard. His subsequent honors include the following: the Brunner Award, the Medal of Honor of the-New York Chapter of the AIA, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal for Architecture, the Gold Medal for Architecture of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Alpha Rho Chi Gold Medal, la Grande me-daille d'Or de I' Academied. Architecture(France), and The Gold Medal of The American Institute of Architects. In 1982, the deans of the architectural schools of the United Sates chose I. M. Pei as the best designer of significant non-residential structures.
学生时代，他获得过麻省理工学院和哈佛的惠尔怀特出国奖学金。他此后获得的荣誉包括：布鲁纳奖，美国建筑师协会纽约分会的荣誉奖章，托马斯·杰克逊纪念堂建筑奖，美国艺术，阿尔发·罗·契金奖，建筑学会大金牌（法国）与文学学院建筑金奖及美国建筑师协会金奖。1982年，美国建筑学校的校长评选贝聿铭为最出色的非居住用建筑物的设计者。
英语词汇注释
prominent adj. 杰出的
architecture n. 建筑学
graft vt. 使结合
subsequent adj. 后来的