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REPORTER: More than 1,000 corporations, banks, and financial service companies leased space in the Twin Towers, many of their offices designed to impress clients with expensive furnishings and artwork in the reception areas and conference rooms.

有1000多家公司、银行和金融服务公司在双子城租用了办公地方，他们有很多办事处的接待地方和会议室放置了为了给客户留下深刻印象的贵重室内陈设品和艺术品。

DIETRICK VON FRANK: I'm not sure that people were aware that there were fine art objects, paintings, scupltures, etcetera in the World Trade Center.

我并不确定人们是否意识到在世贸中心成放了精美的艺术品、绘画、雕塑和其他的装饰品。

REPORTER: A prime example, bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald. This videotape was shot four months before September 11. Company chairman Howard Lutnik, who survived in 9/11, is seen showing CNN anchro Willow Bay the company's world class collection of Rodin scupltures.

作为从事债券贸易的Cantor Fitzgerald公司就是一个很好的例子。这盘录音带是在9.11事件前四个月拍摄的。公司主席Howard Lutnik是9.11事件的幸存者，他向CNN的主持人Willow Bay 展示了公司世界级的收藏品罗丹的雕塑品。

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are 12 in the world.

世界现有12件罗丹的雕塑品。

REPORTER: All these bronzes, valued at $17 million, were lost. Although remarkably, one sheered piece was recovered by ground zero workers.

这些全青铜的制品价值1千7百万美圆，就这样损失了。虽然值得庆兴地是“爆心摄影点”组织的工作人员找到了一件碎片。

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We think it's from Cantor Fitzgerald. We think it's part of a Rodin, yes.

我们认为它是属于Cantor Fitzgerald公司的，是罗丹作品的一部分。

FRANK: They would finding more pieces of torn metal or paper or canvasses, but it's all basically destroyed.

他们还会找到更多的碎片，有金属制、纸制和帆布系列的艺术品的碎片，但是这些艺术品基本上来说是给毁掉了。

REPORTER: Dietrick Von Frank is president of Aqsa Art Insurance, which insured several World Trade Center collections.

Aqsa Art Insurance公司主席Dietrick Von Frank对多件世贸中心的收藏品进行了投保。

FRANK: When those towers came down, the range of artwork that was lost is wide variety, paintings, sculpture, textiles.

当双子城倒塌的时候，损失的艺术品的范围很广，有绘画、雕塑品、纺织品等。

REPORTER: And valuable ceramics, such as this plate at Cantor Fitzgerald. Among the lost artworks were paintings by Pablo Picasso, David Hockney (ph) and Roy Lichtenstein, photographs by Cindy Sherman. Bank of America, alone, lost more than 100 contemporary works on paper, such as watercolors, photographs and collages.

还有贵重的陶瓷品如Cantor Fitzgerald公司的这个盘子。损失的艺术品中有毕加索、大卫·霍克尼和李奇登斯坦的绘画，辛迪、谢尔曼的摄影作品。光是美国银行一家就损失了100多件当代纸制艺术品，如水彩画、摄影作品和抽象拼贴画等。

Several of the destroyed works had been displayed in the Twin Towers public lobbies and plazas. A Jeff Konigsburg (ph) installation. A Louise Nevillson work, valued at three-quarters of a million dollars. A tapestry by Juan Miro, valued at $2 million. A large outdoor sculpture by Alexaner Calder, valued at $2.25 million.

有一些受毁的艺术品在双子城的大厅和广场进行了展览。有一件Jeff Konigsburg安装的饰品，一件价值75万美圆的 Louise Nevillson 的作品，一件价值200万美圆的Juan Miro所编制的挂毯，一件高达225万美圆的Alexaner Calder制作的大型室外雕塑品。

FRANK: You have very grand names like Alexander Calder, Louise Nevillson, Juan Miro, and Nigary, but you also have other artists that are less known.

你有名人如同Alexander Calder, Louise Nevillson, Juan Miro, and Nigary的作品，也有一些不太有名的艺术家的作品。

REPORTER: Many of those works were highly prized and highly priced. A $30,000 marble sculpture, a $650,000 metal work, a million dollar sphere.

很多都是稀有而且贵重的。有一件3万美圆的大理石雕塑，一件价值为65万美圆的金属制品还有100万美圆的球型艺术品。

FRANK: My estimate on the art that was lost in September 11th would be around $100 million.

我估计在9.11事件中损失的艺术品将近1亿美圆。

REPORTER: It's impossible to compare the loss of even the most exquisite painting, the most elegant statue to the loss of human life, human potential on that day. Yet every work of art represents human creativity, human potential realized in plaster, or acrylic paint, or bronze. And is, on that account, a loss of some account.

我们无法将在那天中损失的最精致的绘画、最一流的雕象和人生命和潜力的损失相比较。每一件艺术品代表的是人的创造力，人的潜力就是通过这些石膏、化学颜料或是青铜得以实现。因此这样看来这种损失是无法估量的。

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