Unit 1 Travel 课件-2022-2023学年中职英语语文版基础模块下册

Unit 1 Travel Reading Part: The Great Wall One of the Eight Wonders of the World 世界八大奇迹之一 The Great Wall is believed by many to be one of the greatest architectural masterpieces of mankind - as such, it is often called one of the Eight Wonders of the World. 很多人都视长城为人类最伟大的建筑杰作之一，因此，它也常常被称为“世界八大奇迹之一”。 People often credit Qin Shi Huang (259-210 BC), the First Emperor of a unified China, as the builder of the Great Wall. 人们通常认为，长城的建造者是秦始皇（公元前259年—公元前210年），中国大一统后的第一位皇帝。 But construction of the wall actually started during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) and the Warring States Period (476-221 BC), long before Qin Shi Huang's time, and it was rebuilt for several times in later dynasties. 但是，长城的修建其实始于春秋（公元前770年—公元前476年）战国（公元前476年—公元前221年）时期，远远早于秦始皇的年代，并且在之后的朝代中被屡次重建。 However, the First Emperor did order additional construction and connection of various sections of defensive walls to form the Great Wall in northern China to fend off nomadic invaders. 然而，秦始皇的确下令增建并连接起不同地段的防御城墙，在中国北方形成“万里长城”，以抵御游牧部落的入侵。 Unfortunately, most of the ancient walls built during the Qin time have disappeared and the existing wall we see today was mostly constructed during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). 遗憾的是，秦代修建的古长城几乎消失无痕，我们今天见到的现存的长城多为明代（1368—1644）所建。 Built with bricks, rammed earth, stone and wood, the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty stretches more than 8,850 kilometers from Hushan in northeast China's Liaoning Province to Jiayuguan in northwest China's Gansu Province. 明代长城以砖石、夯土和木料修建，从中国东北的辽宁省虎山，绵延至西北甘肃省的嘉峪关，全长8,850余公里。 Most Chinese people call it Wanli Changcheng, meaning literally "Ten Thousand Li Long Wall." Li is a traditional Chinese measure of distance, equaling 500 meters or half a kilometer. 大多数中国人称它为“万里长城”，字面意思是墙长“一万里”。“里”是中国传统表距离的计量单位，相当于500米。 The average height of the wall stands at 7.8 meters, but in some sections, it reaches 14 meters. 城墙的平均高度为7.8米，但在某些地段，则高达14米。 Since most segments of the wall were built along mountains, the height of the wall rises in relatively level plac