万里长城永不倒

2007-04-23 20:35:36 / 个人分类：歌曲

万里长城永不倒

It's a thousand times longer than any monument ever built. Started before the Birth of Christ, it was still being built when Columbus sailed to America and millions died in its making. What unspeakable fears drove the Chinese to build the Great Wall, a wall they called “the longest cemetery in the world”.

before the Birth of Christ 公元前

unspeakable 难以言表的

cemetery 公墓，墓地

This is the wall that everybody knows about, where American presidents pose and millions of tourists visit every year. But few of those visitors realize that the floor they are rapidly wearing away and the walls they carve their initials on is younger than they are, rebuilt only a few decades ago.

pose 摆姿势（拍照片）

wear away 消逝，磨损

carve initials on 在...雕刻姓名首字母

But there is a lost wall, rarely visited and seldom filmed that lies just over the horizon. This is the real Great Wall of China. It starts on the shores of the Yellow Sea, and stretches through the mountains north of Beijing and into the heartland of North China. It has great fortified castles and watchtowers at crucial mountain passes where enemy armies could easily breach the defenses.

film v. 把...拍成电影，录影

stretch 伸展，延伸

heartland 心脏地带

fortified castles 设要塞的（加强的）城堡

watchtower 瞭望塔，监视塔

pass 关卡

enemy armies 敌军

breach the defenses 突破防线

It runs down to the shoreline of great rivers, then for thousands of miles it stretches through uninhabited deserts across unscalable mountains. At first, it is built of stone, but as it reaches the desert, it reverses into mud brick. And finally, the Great Wall ends here at this lonely watchtower overlooking the White River. It's the greatest feat of engineering in the world, running a staggering total of more than 4,000 miles from start to finish.

uninhabited 无人居住的

unscalable 不能攀登的

reverse into 倒退为

overlook 俯瞰，远眺

feat 壮举，伟绩

staggering 惊人的

a total of 一共，总共

This is the 15th dawn Chen Daling has photographed in this month alone. But Chen is not only a photographer. He is a man who has dedicated his life to discovering everything he can about the Great Wall of China. For years, he searched the Chinese countryside for evidence of long forgotten and abandoned walls.
dawn 破晓

dedicate ... to...献出，致力于

abandoned 被废弃的，被抛弃的

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