第一篇：英語作文長城

長城 The Great Wall

What impresses me most in Beijing is the Great Wall which is one of the greatest projects in the world.It's not only the cultural heritage, but also a symbol of China.“It's glorious.” I think.It looks like a big dragon running across the mountainous area.It starts Shanhaiguan in the east to Jiayuguan in the west.It's so long that nobody can walk from the beginning to the end.在北京給我印象最深的是長城，是世界上最大的項目之一。它不僅是文化遺產，也是中國的象征。”我覺得“它很輝煌"。它就像一條巨龍穿越山區。從東面的山海關開始一直延伸到西邊的嘉峪關。太長了以至于沒有人能從走到尾。

It was firstly built in Qin Dynasty and prolonged in Ming and Qing dynasties.It was used to protect the enemies from invading in the past, but now it has become the place of interest which attracts so many tourists both at home and abroad.它始建于秦朝，一直延期到明清時期。在過去它是用來防止敵人的入侵，但現在它已成為名勝古跡，吸引了很多國內外游客。

When I was standing on the top of the Great Wall, I felt as if I were in ancient days.I could see many laborers working very hard.How could they finish this extremely difficult task by hand?

當我站在長城上時，我感覺我像是在古代一樣。我可以看到很多勞動者努力工作。他們怎么能用手工完成這個艱巨的任務？

風中之燭 Candle in the Wind

Would you smile, if I asked you to smile?

如果我叫你笑，你愿意嗎？

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance?

如果我邀請你跳舞，你愿意嗎？

Would you come, if I asked you to come?

如果我叫你來，你愿意嗎？

And would you save my soul, this moment?

這一刻你愿意拯救我的靈魂嗎？

Of course, you will, cause you love me.當然，你會愿意，因為你愛我。

I will not forget you, because you love me.我不會忘記你，因為你愛我。

I will not leave you, because you had saved me.我不會離開你，因為你拯救了我。

I will not laugh at you, because you are my candle.我不會嘲笑你，因為你是我的燭光。

Of cause, I will not, cause I love you.我當然不會，因為我愛你。

The pure, the bright, the beautiful is you.你是純潔，光明，美麗的。

You dream of love and warmth.你的夢是充滿著愛和溫暖的。

The spirit is yearning cry.靈魂在深切的呼喊著。

To struggle for the better hope

為更美好的希望而掙扎。

These things can never die.這些東西永遠都不會消逝。

Let love pass for every hand

讓愛穿過每一個人的手心吧

You are my sunshine and you are my everything.你是我的陽光，你是我的一切。

第二篇：長城英語作文

The Great Wall is the world heritage and spirtual

symbol of China.It winds its way through the northern part of China,with a total length of over 6350 kilometers and all over 16 provinces,municipalities and autonomous regions.Due to the well-kept part of the Great Wall inside Beijing,Beijing became the best location for visiting it.Who knows

how many people's aspirations have been inspired by the sentence“if you haven't climbed up the Great Wall, you are not

a real man”!Badaling Great Wall lies not far away from north of Qinglong Bridge of Yanqing County,and its location

is called Jundu Mountain.To the northwest and north of Beijing, a huge, serrated wall zigzags it's way to the east and west along the undulating mountains.This is the Great Wall, which is said to be visible from the moon.Construction of the Great Wall started in the 7th century B.C.The vassal states under the Zhou Dynasty in the northern parts of the country each built their own walls for defence purposes.After the state of Qin unified China in 221

B.C., it joined the walls to hold off the invaders from the Xiongnu tribes in the north and extended them to more than 10,000 li or 5,000 kilometers.This is the origin of the name Of the “10,000-li Great Wall”.The Great Wall was renovated from time to time after the Qin Dynasty.A major renovation started with the founding of the Ming Dynasty in 1368, and took 200 years to complete.The wall we see today is almost exactly the result of this effort.With a total length of over 6,000 kilometers, it extends to the jiayu Pass in Gansu Province in the west and to the mouth of the Yalu River in Liaoning Province in the east.What lies north of Beijing is but a small section of it.China's Great Wall is known to the world as one of the seven great wonders of the world.It is located in North China.It is over 6000 kilometres in length and is 25 feet high in

average.The ancient people started to built the wall in the 7th Century BC with earth,brick and stone, and joined it in the Qin Dynasty.The Great Wall was built in ancient China to keep out invaders, however, it is now regared as one of the most important tourist spots in our country or even in the whole world.Every year, it is visited by thousands of people from all over the world.The Great Wall runs across North China like a huge dragon, It winds its way from west to east, across deserts, over mountains, through valleys till at last it reaches the sea.It's the longest wall on the earth, also one of the wonders in the world.The Great Wall has a history of more than 2000 years.The first part was built during the Spring and Autumn Period.All the walls were joined up in Qin Dynasty.All tile work was done by hand.Thousands of people died while building the wall.Thus the Great Wall came into existence.Since then, it has been rebuilt and repaired many times.Now the Great Wall,the

admiration of the world, has taken on a new look.It's visited by large numbers of people from all parts'of the'country and the world.The Great Wall of China, also known in China as the Great Wall of 10,000, is an ancient Chinese fortification built from the end of the 14th century until the beginning of the 17th century, during the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect

China from raids by the Mongols and Turkic tribes.It was preceded by several walls built since the 3rd century BC against the raids of nomadic tribes coming from areas now in modern day Mongolia and Manchuria.The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,350 km(3,946 miles), from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Gulf in the east, at the limit between China proper and Manchuria, to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.The first major wall was built during the reign of the First Emperor, the main emperor of the short-lived Qin dynasty.This wall was not constructed as a

single endeavor, but rather was created by the joining of several regional walls built by the Warring States.It was located much further north than the current Great Wall, and very little remains of it.A defensive wall on the northern border was built and maintained by several dynasties at different times in Chinese history.The Great Wall that can still be seen today was built during the Ming Dynasty, on a much larger scale and with longer lasting materials(solid stone used for the sides and the top of the Wall)than any wall that had been built before.The primary purpose of the wall was not to keep out people, who could scale the wall, but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with their horses or return easily with stolen property

The Great Wall, symbolizing China's ancient civilization, is one of the most famous sight in the World Hertige List.Also it was a wonder in architecture

history.It is a distance of 75 kilometres northwest of Beijing.Its highest point at Badaling is some 800 metres above sea level.Construction of the Wall first began during the period of the Warring States(476-221 BC).Formerly, walls were built at strategic points by different kingdoms to protect their northern territories.In 221 BC after the first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty unified China, he decided to have the walls linked up and extended.Great wall of China was an ancient gigantic defensive project.It is one of the largest construction projects ever completed.Great Wall of China is one of the greatest wonders of the world.It winds its way westward over the vast territory of China from the bank of the Yalu River and ends at the foot of snow-covered Qilianshan and Tianshan mountains.It is seldom that we see such a gigantic project in China or elsewhere in the world.The Chinese call it the Wall of 10,000 li.Its size is better seen on a map or from an aerial photograph.According to astronauts who looked back from the moon, of all projects built by man, the Great Wall of China is the most conspicuous seen in space.Today, the Great wall has lost its strategic importance and has become a world-renowned tourist attraction.The laboring people of different dynasties demonstrated their intelligence and wisdom while building this great project.They left behind a precious heritage deserving our everlasting care.Badaling section, Juyong pass and Cloud Terrace were listed as important historical monuments under special preservation by the Chinese government in 1961.The Great Wall was listed by UNESCO in 1987 as one of the world heritages.As we all know, the Great Wall is a great building, I am proud of the Great Wall.First, the Great Wall two thousand years of history;It is located in northern China.East from Shanhaiguan, west to Jiayuguan, total length of 8851.8 km.Second, the Great Wall is China's ancient people created one of the great miracles on behalf of China's long history.Third, in the past, the Great Wall was built to withstand enemy attack on the;Today, the Great Wall has become a popular tourist attraction, which every year attracts many tourists from around the world.The Great Wall(really Badaling Great Wall)is one of the wonders of the world.It runs across the northern part of China.It is 6700 kilometres long and 4--5 meters wides.But some places are wide enough for five horses or ten men to walk side by side.It was built in Qin Dynasty and rebuilt in Ming Dynasty.The Great Wall was built to keep the enemies off.The Great Wall has a long history.We are proud of it because it is a great wonder.Many people died when building the wall.But some places in Great Wall are damaged.We should protect it because it is one of the places of interest in China.Many people from the world come to visit it every year.Great Wall

The Great Wall has a history of over 2,000 years which is located in the north of China, winding from the Shanhai Pass in the east to the JIayu Pass in the west, with a total length of 8851.8km.The Great Wall is one of the greatest wonder that our Chinese people have created, which represents the long history of China.In the past, the Great Wall is built to defend against the enemy.However, nowadays the Great Wall has become a famous tourist attraction which attracts a great number of tourists from all around the world every year.The Great Wall of China is a Chinese fortification built from the 5th century BC until the beginning of the 17th century, The Location of the Great Wall is in northern China.It's lenght is over 6,000 kilometers or 12000 li, so it is called “wan li chang cheng”.The everage height of wall is 7.5meters(25feet).The main materials are earth,brick and stone.It had been building since 7th century BC.The purpose of the Great Wall is to keep out invaders in the

ancient.Nowaday, theGreat Wall can't be a defense, but a scene attracting people from all over the world.in order to protect the various dynasties from raids by Hunnic, this wall was located much further north than the current wall built during the Ming Dynasty, and little of it remains.The Great Wall of China was originally a project of Qin dynasty designed to keep out the nomadic Xiongnu invaders from the north.Some of the wall was built during the Qin, but most of it that we see today was constructed during the Ming dynasty.

第三篇：長城英語作文三篇

篇一：中國的長城英語作文

The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is called the “Ten-thousand-Ii Great Wall” in Chinese.In fact, it's more than 6000 kilometres long.It winds its way from west to east, across deserts, over mountains, through valleys till at last it reaches the sea.It is one of the wonders of the world.The Great Wall has a history of over twenty centuries.The first part of it was built during the Spring and Autumn Period.During the Warring States Period, more walls were put up to defend the borders of the different kingdoms.It was during the Qin Dynasty that the kingdom of Qin united the different parts into one empire.To keep the enemy out of his empire, Emperor Qin Shi Huang had all the walls joined up.Thus, the Great Wall came into being.The Great Wall is wide enough at the top for five horses or ten men to walk side by side.Along the wall are watchtow-ers, where soldiers used to keep watch.Fires were lit on the the towers as a warning when the enemy came.It was very difficult to build such a wall in the ancient days without any modern machines.All the work was done by hand.Thousands of men died and were buried under the wall they built.The Great Wall was made not only of stone and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men.Today the Great Wall has become a place of interest not only to the Chinese but to people from all over the world.Many of them have come to know the famous Chinese saying: “He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man.”

中國的長城

中國的長城漢語中常叫作“萬里長城”。實際上它長6 ooo多公里。它從西到東，穿過沙漠，越過高山，跨過深谷，蜿蜒而行，最后直到海邊。它是世界上的奇觀之一。

長城有兩千多年的歷史。最早是在春秋時期開始修筑的。戰國時期，各諸候國為了保衛自己的邊境，分別修筑了更多的城墻。在秦朝時，秦國把各諸侯國統一起來，成為一個帝國。為了御敵于國門之外，秦始皇令人把所有的城墻連接起來。這樣，長城就形成了。

長城上面很寬，足夠五匹馬或10個人并排而行。沿城墻有許多烽火臺，過去常有士兵駐守。敵人來時，就點燃烽火，以通知其他士兵。

沒有任何現代機器，要修筑這樣一座長城是非常困難的。所有的工作都不得不用手來完成。成千上萬的人死了，被埋在自己修建的城墻下面。長城不僅是用石頭和土筑成的，而且也是用數以百萬計的人的血肉筑成的。

今天，長城不僅對中國人，而且對來自全世界各地的人們來說都是一處名勝。其中許多人都已知道這句中國名言：“不到長城非好漢”。

篇二：有關長城的英語短文

The Great Wall

The Great Wall building has a long history, vast engineering magnificent, is the world's rare miracle.The Great Wall is the four corners of the world, stretching in our great motherland vast land.It looks like a great dragon, surmounts lofty hills, through the vast grassland, across the vast desert, towards the vast sea.According to historical records, more than 20 states and feudal dynasty built the Great Wall, if constructs each time the Great Wall together, about 100000 miles above.The length of the Great Wall that was built by The Qin, Han, and Ming 3 Dynasty was more than 10 kilo miles.Now our country Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan and other province, city, autonomous regions have the ancient the Great Wall, peak fire platform remains.Of which only the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region the Great Wall amounted to more than 3.The Ming Dynasty in the“ outside” beyond the Great Wall, also built“ inside” and“ three” the Great Wall the Great Wall.“ Neiguan” the Great Wall in the Northern Qi Dynasty had built for the foundation, from Inner Mongolia and Shanxi at the junction of west east “Pianguan”, the Yanmenguan, flat various pass into Hebei, and then turned to the northeast, Fangshan, Changping, the source

of all counties, to pass, and then by the North and East, Huairou to the four customs, and“ outside” is connected to the Great Wall, Zijingguan as the center, generally in a north-south direction.“ Three” the Great Wall in many places and“ inside” the Great Wall, some places two cities are separated by only tens of in.In addition, but also to build a large number of“ repeated walls”.Yanmenguan area“ repeated walls “to have 24 much!

The Great Wall is the working people in ancient China created the miracle.Beginning with QinShihuang, constructs the Great Wall always is a big project.According to the record, QinShihuang used the million of labors to build the Great Wall, occupy countrywide population 1 / 20!There were no machinery, in addition to earth, carrying bricks can use donkeys, goats can climb the cattle, all labor and all must rely on manpower, work environment and high mountains and lofty hills, cliff.Can imagine, no large crowds on hard work, is unable to complete the great project.The great wall of the engineering quantity, according to rough estimates, only constructs take the Ming Dynasty as an example, if its masoy, earth is used to build a thickness of 1 meter, 5 meters high walls, circled the earth for over a week.If used for paving a 5 meters wide, 35 cm thick road, it could circle the earth three or four

weeks.If all dynasties built a total of 50 thousand kilometers calculation, then this wall can rotate around the earth several weeks, this road, around the earth in thirty or forty weeks.“Because of the terrain, with risks for plug” is the construction of the Great Wall is an important experience, in the age of QinShihuang had it down, Sima Qian writes it to“ historical records”.Later each dynasty build the Great Wall are in accordance with the principle of.Who built Guan Cheng pass are the right and wrong choice between two mountains canyons, or river turning point.Or flat contacts pass through, so as to control is important, and may save the manpower and materials, to achieve “If one man guards the pass, ten thousand are unable to get through.Ten thousand cannot force it,“ effect.Built a castle or Beacon Tower is selected in the” appeared to place“ for building a wall, is the full use of the terrain, such as Juyongguan, the Great Wall in Badaling are built along the mountain ridge, some lots from the lateral walls look very steep, we receive” inside is smooth, easily defensible.“ effect of.In the territory of Liaoning, Liaodong town of Ming Dynasty the Great Wall has called a precipitous wall, wall of the hill, is the use of vertical cliff, precipice slightly to split cutting you will become the Great Wall.Some places

completely using the cliffs, rivers and lakes as a natural barrier, it can be called art beats nature.The

Great Wall, as a great project, become the Chinese nation is a valuable heritage.長城修筑的歷史悠久，工程雄偉浩大，是世界少有的奇跡。長城東西南北交錯，綿延伏于我們偉大祖國遼闊的土地上。它好像一條巨龍，翻越巍巍群山，穿過茫茫草原，跨過浩瀚的沙漠，奔向蒼茫的大海。根據歷史文獻記載，有20多個諸侯國家和封建王朝修筑過長城，若把各個時代修筑的長城加起來，大約有10萬里以上。其中秦、漢、明3個朝代所修長城的長度都超過了1萬里。現在我國新疆、甘肅、寧夏、陜西、內蒙古、山西、河北、北京、天津、遼寧、吉林、黑龍江、河南、山東、湖北、湖南等省、市、自治區都有古長城、峰火臺的遺跡。其中僅內蒙古自治區的長城就達3萬多里。

明朝在“外邊”長城之外，還修筑了“內邊”長城和“內三關”長城。“內關”長城以北齊所筑為基礎，起自內蒙古與山西交界處的偏關以西，東行經雁門關、平型諸關入河北，然后折向東北，經來源、房山、昌平諸縣，直達居庸關，然后又由北而東，至懷柔的四海關、與“外邊”長城相接，以紫荊關為中心，大致成南北走向。“內三關”長城在很多地方和“內邊”長城并行，有些地方兩城相隔僅數十里。除此以外，還修筑了大量的“重城”。雁門關一帶的“重城”就有24道之多！

長城是我國古代勞動人民創造的奇跡。自秦始皇開始，修筑長城一直是一項大工程。據記載，秦始皇使用了近百萬勞動力修筑長城，占全國人口的1/20！當時沒有任何機械，除運土、運磚可以用毛驢、山羊能爬山的牲畜外，全部勞動都得靠人力，而工作環境又是崇山峻嶺、峭壁深壑。可以想見，沒有大量的人群進行艱苦的勞動，是無法完成這項巨大工程的。

萬里長城的工程量，據粗略估計，僅以明朝修筑為例，若將其磚石、土方用修筑一道厚1米、高5米的大墻，可環繞地球一周有余。如果用來鋪筑一條寬5米、厚35厘米的馬路，那就能繞地球三四周了。如果把所有朝代所修的總計10萬里來計算，則這道長墻可繞地球十幾周，這條馬路，可繞地球三四十周。

“因地地形，用險制塞”是修筑長城的一條重要經驗，在秦始皇的時候已經把它肯定下來，司馬遷把它寫入《史記》之中。以后每一個朝代修筑長城都是按照這一原則進行的。凡是修筑關城隘口都是非曲直選擇在兩山峽谷之間，或是河流轉折之處。或是平川往來必經之地，這樣既能控制險要，又可節約人力和材料，以達“一夫當關，萬夫莫開”的效果。修筑城堡或烽火臺也是選擇在“四顧要之處”至于修筑城墻，更是充分地利用地地形，如像居庸關、八達嶺的長城都有是沿著山嶺的脊背修筑，有的地段從城墻外側看去非常險峻，內側則甚是平緩，收“易守難攻”之效。在遼寧境內，明代遼東鎮的長城有一種

叫山險墻、劈山墻的，就是利用懸崖陡壁，稍微把崖壁劈削一下就成為長城 了。還有一些地方完全利用危崖絕壁、江河湖泊作為天然屏障，真可以說是巧奪天工了.長城，作為一頂偉大的工程，成為中華民族的一份寶貴遺產。

篇三：英語作文 長城

長城 The Great Wall

What impresses me most in Beijing is the Great Wall which is one of the greatest projects in the world.It's not only the cultural heritage, but also a symbol of China.”It's glorious.“ I think.It looks like a big dragon running across the mountainous area.It starts Shanhaiguan in the east to Jiayuguan in the west.It's so long that nobody can walk from the beginning to the end.在北京給我印象最深的是長城，是世界上最大的項目之一。它不僅是文化遺產，也是中國的象征。”我覺得“它很輝煌”。它就像一條巨龍穿越山區。從東面的山海關開始一直延伸到西邊的嘉峪關。太長了以至于沒有人能從走到尾。

It was firstly built in Qin Dynasty and prolonged in Ming and Qing dynasties.It was used to protect the enemies from invading in the past, but now it has become the place of interest which attracts so many tourists both at home and abroad.它始建于秦朝，一直延期到明清時期。在過去它是用來防止敵人的入侵，但現在它已成為名勝古跡，吸引了很多國內外游客。

When I was standing on the top of the Great Wall, I felt as if I were in ancient days.I could see many laborers working very hard.How could they finish this extremely difficult task by hand?

當我站在長城上時，我感覺我像是在古代一樣。我可以看到很多勞動者努力工作。他們怎么能用手工完成這個艱巨的任務？

風中之燭 Candle in the Wind

Would you smile, if I asked you to smile?

如果我叫你笑，你愿意嗎？

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance?

如果我邀請你跳舞，你愿意嗎？

Would you come, if I asked you to come?

如果我叫你來，你愿意嗎？

And would you save my soul, this moment?

這一刻你愿意拯救我的靈魂嗎？

Of course, you will, cause you love me.當然，你會愿意，因為你愛我。

I will not forget you, because you love me.我不會忘記你，因為你愛我。

I will not leave you, because you had saved me.我不會離開你，因為你拯救了我。

I will not laugh at you, because you are my candle.我不會嘲笑你，因為你是我的燭光。

Of cause, I will not, cause I love you.我當然不會，因為我愛你。

The pure, the bright, the beautiful is you.你是純潔，光明，美麗的。

You dream of love and warmth.你的夢是充滿著愛和溫暖的。

The spirit is yearning cry.靈魂在深切的呼喊著。

To struggle for the better hope

為更美好的希望而掙扎。

These things can never die.這些東西永遠都不會消逝。

Let love pass for every hand

讓愛穿過每一個人的手心吧

You are my sunshine and you are my everything.你是我的陽光，你是我的一切。

第四篇：經典長城英語介紹（范文模版）

There are not many trees on the Great Wall.So you shoule take the umbrella to prevent sunburn.A bottle of water is necessary.The Great Walll is one of the most interesting places in China.Does anyone need to go to the toilet? We need walk for a long time on the Great Wall, So you wear the sport shoes or other comfortable shoes.I suggest we should take the cable car，so we can save our energy for seeing the beauty of the Great Wall.The great wall is very famous.A huge number of people would like to visit it, especially in summer vacation.The Great Wall attracts a large number of domestic and foreign tourists every year.I suggest we should get up early, so we can avoid congestion.We have to stand in line and wait for our turn.China has a written history of over 5,000 years of civilization and boasts rich cultural relics and historical sites.Beijing, the capital city of the People’s Republic of China, is the country’s political and cultural center.The Great Wall was enlisted in the World Heritage in 1987.The construction of the Wall first began during the Warring States period about 2,500 years ago.The Great Wall, like the Pyramids of Egypt, the Taj Mahal(1)in India and the Hanging Garden of Babylon(2), is one of the great wonders of the world.Starting out in the east on the banks of the Yalu River in Liaoning Province, the Wall stretches westwards for 12,700 kilometers to Jiayuguan in the Gobi desert, thus known as the Ten Thousand Li Wall in China.The Wall climbs up and down, twists and turns along the ridges of the Yanshan and Yinshan Mountain Chains through five provinces——Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu and two autonomous regions——Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, binding the northern China together.Historical records trace the construction of the origin of the Wall to defensive fortification back to the year 656 B.C.during the reign of King Cheng of the States of Chu.Its construction continued throughout the Warring States period in the fifth Century B.C.when ducal states Yan, Zhao, Wei, and Qin were frequently plundered by the nomadic peoples living north of the Yinshan and Yanshan mountain ranges.Walls, then, were built separately by these ducal states to ward off such harassments.Later in 221 B.C., Qin dynasty conquered the other states and unified China, Emperor Qinshihuang ordered the connection of these individual walls and further extensions to form the basis of the present great wall.As a matter of fact, a separate outer wall was constructed north of the Yinshan range in the Han Dynasty(206 BC——1644 BC.), which went to ruin through years of neglect.In the many intervening centuries, succeeding dynasties rebuilt parts of the Wall.The most extensive reinforcements and renovations were carried out in the Ming Dynasty(1368——1644)when altogether 18 lengthy stretches were reinforced with bricks and rocks.it is mostly the Ming Dynasty Wall that visitors see today.The Great Wall is divided into two sections, the east and west, with Shanxi Province as the dividing line.The west part is a rammed earth construction, about 5.3 meters high on average.In the eastern part, the core of the Wall is rammed earth as well, but the outer shell is reinforced with bricks and rocks.The most imposing and best preserved sections of the Great Wall are at Badaling and Mutianyu, not far from Beijing and both are open to visitors.The Wall of those sections is 7.8 meters high and 6.5 meters wide at its base, narrowing to 5.8 meters on the ramparts, wide enough for five horses to gallop abreast.There are ramparts, embrasures, peep-holes and apertures for archers on the top, besides gutters with gargoyles to drain rain-water off the parapet walk.Two-storied watch-towers are built at approximately 400-meters internals.The top stories of the watch-tower were designed for observing enemy movements, while the first was used for storing grain, fodder, military equipment and gunpowder as well as for quartering garrison soldiers.The highest watch-tower at Badaling standing on a hill-top, is reached only after a steep climb, like “climbing a ladder to heaven”.The view from the top is rewarding, hoverer.The Wall follows the contour of mountains that rise one behind the other until they finally fade and merge with distant haze.A signal system formerly existed that served to communicate military information to the dynastic capital.This consisted of beacon towers on the Wall itself and on mountain tops within sight of the Wall.At the approach of enemy troops, smoke signals gave the alarm from the beacon towers in the daytime and bonfire did this at night.Emergency signals could be relayed to the capital from distant places within a few hour long before the invention of anything like modern communications.There stand 14 major passes(Guan, in Chinese)at places of strategic importance along the Great Wall, the most important being Shanghaiguan and Jiayuguan.Yet the most impressive one is Juyongguan, about 50 kilometers northwest of Beijing.Known as “Tian Xia Di YI Guan”(The First Pass Under Heaven), Shanghaiguan Pass is situated between two sheer cliffs forming a neck connecting north China with the northeast.It had been, therefore, a key junction contested by all strategists and many famous battles were fought here.It was the gate of Shanghaiguan that the Ming general Wu Sangui opened to the Manchu army to suppress the peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng and so surrendered the whole Ming empire to the Manchus, leading to the foundation of the Qing Dynasty.(1644-1911)

Jiayuguan Pass was not so much as the “Strategic pass Under the Heaven” as an important communication center in Chinese history.Cleft between the snow-capped Qilian Mountains and the rolling Mazong Mountains, it was on the ancient Silk Road.Zhang Qian, the first envoy of Emperor Wu Di of the Western Han dynasty(206 B.C-24 A.D), crossed it on his journey to the western regions.Later, silk flowed to the west through this pass too.The gate-tower of Jiayuguan is an attractive building of excellent workmanship.It has an inner city and an outer city, the former square in shape and surrounded by a wall 11.7 meters high and 730 meters in circumference.It has two gates, an eastern one and a western one.On each gate sits a tower facing each other.the four corners of the wall are occupied by four watch towers, one for each.Juyongguan, a gateway to ancient Beijing from Inner Mongolia, was built in a 15-kilometer long ravine flanked by mountains.The cavalrymen of Genghis Khan swept through it in the 13th century.At the center of the pass is a white marble platform named the Cloud terrace, which was called the Crossing-Street Dagoba, since its narrow arch spanned the main street of the pass and on the top of the terrace there used to be three stone dagobas, built in the Yuan Daynasty(1206-1368).At the bottom of the terrace is a half-octagonal arch gateway, interesting for its wealth of detail: it is decorated with splendid images of Buddha and four celestial guardians carved on the walls.The vividness of their expressions is matched by the exquisite workmanship.such grandiose relics works, with several stones pieced together, are rarely seen in ancient Chinese carving.The gate jambs bear a multi-lingual Buddhist sutra, carved some 600 years ago in Sanskrit(3), Tibetan, Mongolian, Uigur(4), Han Chinese and the language of Western Xia.Undoubtedly, they are valuable to the study of Buddhism and ancient languages.As a cultural heritage, the Wall belongs not only to China but to the world.The Venice charter says: “Historical and cultural architecture not only includes the individual architectural works, but also the urban or rural environment that witnessed certain civilizations, significant social developments or historical events.” The Great Wall is the largest of such historical and cultural architecture, and that is why it continues to be so attractive to people all over the world.In 1987, the Wall was listed by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage site.

第五篇：血汗長城英語作文

血汗長城英語作文

在生活、工作和學習中，許多人都有過寫作文的經歷，對作文都不陌生吧，作文是人們把記憶中所存儲的有關知識、經驗和思想用書面形式表達出來的記敘方式。作文的注意事項有許多，你確定會寫嗎？下面是小編幫大家整理的血汗長城英語作文，僅供參考，大家一起來看看吧。

你們好！我是天馬行空公司的導游，我叫鄭梓濠。今天，我就帶你們游覽我國偉大的建筑工程——長城。大家和我一起登上長城吧！

How do you do!I'm the guide of Tianma XingKong company.My name is Zheng Zihao.Today, I will take you to visit the Great Wall, the great construction project of our country.Let's go to the Great Wall with me!

你們遠看，長城就像一條長龍，在崇山峻嶺之間萬蜿盤旋。從東頭的山海關到西頭的嘉峪關，一共有一萬三千公里，多雄偉啊！

You can see from afar that the Great Wall is like a long dragon, circling among the mountains.From Shanhaiguan in the east to Jiayuguan in the west, there are 13000km in total.How magnificent!

現在，我們就在長城腳下。這一段長城修筑在八達嶺上，高大堅固，是用巨大的條石和城磚筑成的。城墻頂上輔著的方磚，十分平整，像寬大的'馬路，城墻外有兩米多高的垛子。垛子上有方形的嘹望臺和射口，是屯兵使用的，每隔三百多米就有一個城臺，打仗時，屯兵就可以互相呼應了。

Now, we are at the foot of the Great Wall.This section of the Great Wall is built on Badaling.It is tall and strong.It is made of huge stones and city bricks.The square bricks on the top of the city wall are very flat, like a wide road.There are more than two meters high buttresses outside the city wall.There are square watchtowers and archers on the crenels, which are used by the garrison.There is a city platform every 300 meters.When fighting, the garrison can echo each other.大家現在來到了長城上了。站在長城上，踏著腳下的方磚，很自然的就想起了古代人們建造長城的艱辛吧！大家看看這些條石，一塊就有三千多斤重。那時候，什么車也沒有，就靠這無數的肩膀，無數只手，一步一個腳印地抬上那個陡峭的山嶺，多少勞動人民的血汗和智慧，才凝結成這前不見頭，后不見尾的萬里長城啊。

Now we are on the Great Wall.Standing on the Great Wall, stepping on the square bricks under your feet, it is natural to think of the hardships of ancient people in building the Great Wall!Look at these stones.Each one weighs more than 3000 Jin.At that time, there were no cars, so we relied on these countless shoulders, countless hands and footprints to lift up the steep mountain.How many laboring people's sweat and wisdom condensed into the great wall without the head before and the tail after.好啦，你登上長城就是做了一回好漢啦！下面，大家可以自由參觀、拍照！半小時后集中，請大家在游覽時注意安全，謝謝合作！

Well, you are a hero when you climb the Great Wall!Now, you can visit and take photos freely!Half an hour later, please pay attention to the safety when you visit.Thank you for your cooperation!