Peter's father smiled, but said nothing. Peter would soon see the bridge the next moring, his father took Peter to the bridge. Peter first saw it from far away. How big it looked! But then he saw something else. The bridge was red!

　　"The bridge isn't golden!" he said. "Why is it called the Golden Gate Bridge?"

　　"It isn't named for its color," said his father. "It is named for the Golden Gate."

　　"What is the Golden Gate?" asked Peter.

　　"A gate is either an opening, or the thing that closes the opening" said his father. "The Golden Gate is an opening," said his father. "The Golden Gate is an opening in the land. Water from the sea comes throgh this opening into San Francisco Bay."

　　"Oh," said Peter."And the bredge goes over the opening. But why is the opening called the Golden Gater?"

　　"Years ago men came to California to look for gold," his father said. "Many came by ship. They came into the bay through that opening. For then it was a gate to gold. They named it the Golden Gate."

　　"Well," said peter, "I still think the bridge should look golden."

　　When peter got home, he sent a letter to a California paper. In the letter he said:" Red is not the right coulor for the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge should look golden, the way most people think it does."

　　Peter sent $14.78 with his letter. It was all the money he had saved. "This money is to help paint the gold," he wrote.

　　Many people read Peter's letter in the newspaper. Right away, things began to happen! Some people sent money. A big company gave real gold to make gold paint. A big company gave real gold to make gold to make gold paint. A paint company made the paint.

　　But some people still wanted the bridge to be red!

　　Will the Golden Gate Bridge ever be golden? It will, if enouth people feel as peter does. How do you feel about it?

　　彼得的爸爸微笑着说，没说什么，彼得说，很快就能看见金门桥了。

　　第二天早上，彼得的爸爸带他去看金门桥，彼得先从远处看见这桥，好大的桥呵！然后他又看了一些其他的东西，原来这座桥是红色的。

　　“桥不是金色的！”他说，“为什么叫它金门桥？”

“它不是以颜色而取名的”他爸爸说，“它是因金门而得名。”

“什么是金门？”彼得问。

　　“门要么是通道，要么是关新生通道的东西，”他爸爸说，“金门桥是在陆地 上的通道，进入旧金山湾。”

　　“噢，”彼得说， “桥就是驾在这个通道上，但为什么要把这个通道叫做金门？”

　　“多年前人们来到加利福尼亚寻找黄金，”他爸爸说，“许多人乘而来，经过这个通道，进入旧金山湾，在他们看来，这是一座通向黄金的大门，于是他们称它为金门。”

　　“噢，”彼得说，“但我觉得这座桥应该是金色的。”

　　彼得回家后，他写了一封信寄给加利福利亚的报，在信中他写道：

　　“红色不适合金门桥，象大家想的那样，桥应该是金色的。”

　　彼得随入寄去14.78美元，这是他所有的积蓄，“拿这些钱来把桥漆成金色的，”他写道。

　　许多人在报上读了彼得的信， 立即引起很大的反响，一些人寄钱去，一家大公司南出了
真正的金子来做油漆，一家油漆公司制出了金色的油漆。

　　但仍有些仍要求桥是红色的！

　　金门桥会成为金色的吗？如果有足够的我都象彼得那样的话，会的，你觉得如何