On the ground, the implacable Manhattan grid, with its two hundred numbered east-west streets and twelve north-south avenues, gave the city a stamp of abstract, rectilinear order.

• 地面上，两百条按数字编号的东西向街道和十二条南北向的大道构成了曼哈顿固若金汤的格局，赋予这座城市以抽象而井井有条的秩序。