Standing as the tallest building in Nanjing for 14 years, the Jiangsu Nanjing Television Tower even today remains distinctive as an imposing pillar of modern-Marxist architecture that dominates the northern Hexi skyline by the Qinhuai River.
江苏南京电视塔作为南京最高的建筑站了14年，即使在今天，它仍然是现代马克思主义建筑的雄伟支柱，在秦淮河旁主宰着河西北部的天际线。
Plans for the 318.5 metre-high Tower had been floating around since 1989, but it was not until 1993 that work began in earnest.
自1989年以来，318.5米高的塔的计划一直在流传，但直到1993年才真正开始工作。
The Tower’s six-story base today houses the Jiangsu Science Palace and a climbing hall, among other facilities, while the Tower itself sits atop, where its three legs stand closely together, forming a hollow vertical core. Within those legs, two high-speed lifts transport tourists back and forth between the Tower’s uppermost sections and its base at a speed of 6 metres per second.
今天，该塔的六层底座容纳了江苏科学宫和一个攀岩厅等设施，而塔本身位于顶部，其三条腿紧贴在一起，形成一个空心的垂直核心。 在这些腿内，两架高速电梯以每秒6米的速度在塔的顶部和底部之间来回运送游客。
Reminiscent of 1950s sci-fi “flying saucers”, those sections house observation decks.
让人想起20世纪50年代的科幻“飞碟”，这些部分有观景台。
The larger of the two at 32 metres high, The Grand Tower, occupying the Tower at a height from 169 metres, comprises an indoor observation hall and an outdoor platform. And yes, it revolves, taking 60-90 minutes to make one rotation.
这两个中较大的一座高32米，大塔占据了169米高的塔，包括一个室内观景厅和一个室外平台。 是的，它旋转，需要60-90分钟才能进行一次旋转。
Further up the mast is the smaller of the saucers, at a height of 250 metres. Both are decorated with aluminum-alloy framed, glass-curtain walls.
再往上走，桅杆是较小的碟子，高度为250米。 两者都装饰着铝合金框架、玻璃窗帘墙。
As to the Tower’s primary purpose, aside from serving camera-toting tourists, very little television is today terrestrially broadcast from the Tower (even prior to the internet, most TV in Nanjing was delivered by cable). All FM broadcast radio continues to be beamed from the Tower, while the more-modern age has seen microwave links, requiring line of sight, installed above the rotating platform. Jiangsu TV also maintains several satellite uplinks from the roof of the Tower’s base.
至于塔的主要目的，除了为带着相机的游客服务外，今天从塔上广播的电视很少（甚至在互联网之前，南京的大多数电视都是通过有线电视传输的）。 所有调频广播电台继续从塔台发射，而更现代的时代已经看到了微波链接，需要视线，安装在旋转平台上方。 江苏电视台还从塔架的屋顶维护了几个卫星上行链路。
The Jiangsu Nanjing Television Tower lost its crown as Nanjing’s highest construct in 2010, with the opening of the Zifeng Tower, dwarfing the TV and radio mast by a good margin of 132 metres. Nevertheless, to this day, the Tower is still the tallest such telecommunications facility in all of Jiangsu Province.
2010年，随着紫峰塔的开通，江苏南京电视塔失去了南京最高建筑的桂冠，比电视和广播桅杆矮了132米。 然而，时至今天，该塔仍然是整个江苏省最高的此类电信设施。
