Seattleis rarely the first US city that comes to Chinese minds. In fact, few people could probably tellWashington state from Washington DC.

一提起美国的城市，很少有中国人会首先想到西雅图。其实，很多中国人可能根本分不清华盛顿州和华盛顿特区的区别。

Two romantic comedy films have irrevocably shaped the image of Xiyatu, as the city is known in Mandarin, among the Chinese public, and as a result it would not be a stretch to say Seattle is seen as the American capital of romance, somewhat akin to how the world perceives Paris.

两部浪漫喜剧无疑塑造了西雅图在中国公众心里的形象。因此，可以毫不夸张地说，西雅图被国人视为美国浪漫之都，有几分类似世界对巴黎的看法。

In Sleepless in Seattle, Nora Ephron's 1993 runaway hit, Tom Hanks' character, Sam, moves with his young son from Chicago to Seattle for a fresh start after the death of his wife. The movie portrays the largest city in the Pacific Northwest not as a canyon of high-rises, but as a bohemian enclave of artists and designers, which possibly did not impress Chinese at the time.

在诺拉•艾芙伦1993年执导的热门电影《西雅图夜未眠》中，山姆(汤姆•汉克斯饰)在妻子离世后带着年幼的儿子从芝加哥搬到西雅图，寻求一个新生活的开始。影片将这座美国太平洋西北地区最大的城市塑造成了一个放荡不羁的艺术家和设计师的聚居之处，而非高楼林立之都。当时或许并未给中国观众留下什么印象。

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