英语作文长城（5篇可选）

第一篇：英语作文长城

长城 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.在北京给我印象最深的是长城，是世界上最大的项目之一。它不仅是文化遗产，也是中国的象征。”我觉得“它很辉煌"。它就像一条巨龙穿越山区。从东面的山海关开始一直延伸到西边的嘉峪关。太长了以至于没有人能从走到尾。

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，一直延期到明清时期。在过去它是用来防止敌人的入侵，但现在它已成为名胜古迹，吸引了很多国内外游客。

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?

当我站在长城上时，我感觉我像是在古代一样。我可以看到很多劳动者努力工作。他们怎么能用手工完成这个艰巨的任务？

风中之烛 Candle in the Wind

Would you smile, if I asked you to smile?

如果我叫你笑，你愿意吗？

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance?

如果我邀请你跳舞，你愿意吗？

Would you come, if I asked you to come?

如果我叫你来，你愿意吗？

And would you save my soul, this moment?

这一刻你愿意拯救我的灵魂吗？

Of course, you will, cause you love me.当然，你会愿意，因为你爱我。

I will not forget you, because you love me.我不会忘记你，因为你爱我。

I will not leave you, because you had saved me.我不会离开你，因为你拯救了我。

I will not laugh at you, because you are my candle.我不会嘲笑你，因为你是我的烛光。

Of cause, I will not, cause I love you.我当然不会，因为我爱你。

The pure, the bright, the beautiful is you.你是纯洁，光明，美丽的。

You dream of love and warmth.你的梦是充满着爱和温暖的。

The spirit is yearning cry.灵魂在深切的呼喊着。

To struggle for the better hope

为更美好的希望而挣扎。

These things can never die.这些东西永远都不会消逝。

Let love pass for every hand

让爱穿过每一个人的手心吧

You are my sunshine and you are my everything.你是我的阳光，你是我的一切。

第二篇：长城英语作文

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：长城英语作文三篇

篇一：中国的长城英语作文

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.”

中国的长城

中国的长城汉语中常叫作“万里长城”。实际上它长6 ooo多公里。它从西到东，穿过沙漠，越过高山，跨过深谷，蜿蜒而行，最后直到海边。它是世界上的奇观之一。

长城有两千多年的历史。最早是在春秋时期开始修筑的。战国时期，各诸候国为了保卫自己的边境，分别修筑了更多的城墙。在秦朝时，秦国把各诸侯国统一起来，成为一个帝国。为了御敌于国门之外，秦始皇令人把所有的城墙连接起来。这样，长城就形成了。

长城上面很宽，足够五匹马或10个人并排而行。沿城墙有许多烽火台，过去常有士兵驻守。敌人来时，就点燃烽火，以通知其他士兵。

没有任何现代机器，要修筑这样一座长城是非常困难的。所有的工作都不得不用手来完成。成千上万的人死了，被埋在自己修建的城墙下面。长城不仅是用石头和土筑成的，而且也是用数以百万计的人的血肉筑成的。

今天，长城不仅对中国人，而且对来自全世界各地的人们来说都是一处名胜。其中许多人都已知道这句中国名言：“不到长城非好汉”。

篇二：有关长城的英语短文

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.长城修筑的历史悠久，工程雄伟浩大，是世界少有的奇迹。长城东西南北交错，绵延伏于我们伟大祖国辽阔的土地上。它好像一条巨龙，翻越巍巍群山，穿过茫茫草原，跨过浩瀚的沙漠，奔向苍茫的大海。根据历史文献记载，有20多个诸侯国家和封建王朝修筑过长城，若把各个时代修筑的长城加起来，大约有10万里以上。其中秦、汉、明3个朝代所修长城的长度都超过了1万里。现在我国新疆、甘肃、宁夏、陕西、内蒙古、山西、河北、北京、天津、辽宁、吉林、黑龙江、河南、山东、湖北、湖南等省、市、自治区都有古长城、峰火台的遗迹。其中仅内蒙古自治区的长城就达3万多里。

明朝在“外边”长城之外，还修筑了“内边”长城和“内三关”长城。“内关”长城以北齐所筑为基础，起自内蒙古与山西交界处的偏关以西，东行经雁门关、平型诸关入河北，然后折向东北，经来源、房山、昌平诸县，直达居庸关，然后又由北而东，至怀柔的四海关、与“外边”长城相接，以紫荆关为中心，大致成南北走向。“内三关”长城在很多地方和“内边”长城并行，有些地方两城相隔仅数十里。除此以外，还修筑了大量的“重城”。雁门关一带的“重城”就有24道之多！

长城是我国古代劳动人民创造的奇迹。自秦始皇开始，修筑长城一直是一项大工程。据记载，秦始皇使用了近百万劳动力修筑长城，占全国人口的1/20！当时没有任何机械，除运土、运砖可以用毛驴、山羊能爬山的牲畜外，全部劳动都得靠人力，而工作环境又是崇山峻岭、峭壁深壑。可以想见，没有大量的人群进行艰苦的劳动，是无法完成这项巨大工程的。

万里长城的工程量，据粗略估计，仅以明朝修筑为例，若将其砖石、土方用修筑一道厚1米、高5米的大墙，可环绕地球一周有余。如果用来铺筑一条宽5米、厚35厘米的马路，那就能绕地球三四周了。如果把所有朝代所修的总计10万里来计算，则这道长墙可绕地球十几周，这条马路，可绕地球三四十周。

“因地地形，用险制塞”是修筑长城的一条重要经验，在秦始皇的时候已经把它肯定下来，司马迁把它写入《史记》之中。以后每一个朝代修筑长城都是按照这一原则进行的。凡是修筑关城隘口都是非曲直选择在两山峡谷之间，或是河流转折之处。或是平川往来必经之地，这样既能控制险要，又可节约人力和材料，以达“一夫当关，万夫莫开”的效果。修筑城堡或烽火台也是选择在“四顾要之处”至于修筑城墙，更是充分地利用地地形，如像居庸关、八达岭的长城都有是沿着山岭的脊背修筑，有的地段从城墙外侧看去非常险峻，内侧则甚是平缓，收“易守难攻”之效。在辽宁境内，明代辽东镇的长城有一种

叫山险墙、劈山墙的，就是利用悬崖陡壁，稍微把崖壁劈削一下就成为长城 了。还有一些地方完全利用危崖绝壁、江河湖泊作为天然屏障，真可以说是巧夺天工了.长城，作为一顶伟大的工程，成为中华民族的一份宝贵遗产。

篇三：英语作文 长城

长城 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.在北京给我印象最深的是长城，是世界上最大的项目之一。它不仅是文化遗产，也是中国的象征。”我觉得“它很辉煌”。它就像一条巨龙穿越山区。从东面的山海关开始一直延伸到西边的嘉峪关。太长了以至于没有人能从走到尾。

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，一直延期到明清时期。在过去它是用来防止敌人的入侵，但现在它已成为名胜古迹，吸引了很多国内外游客。

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?

当我站在长城上时，我感觉我像是在古代一样。我可以看到很多劳动者努力工作。他们怎么能用手工完成这个艰巨的任务？

风中之烛 Candle in the Wind

Would you smile, if I asked you to smile?

如果我叫你笑，你愿意吗？

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance?

如果我邀请你跳舞，你愿意吗？

Would you come, if I asked you to come?

如果我叫你来，你愿意吗？

And would you save my soul, this moment?

这一刻你愿意拯救我的灵魂吗？

Of course, you will, cause you love me.当然，你会愿意，因为你爱我。

I will not forget you, because you love me.我不会忘记你，因为你爱我。

I will not leave you, because you had saved me.我不会离开你，因为你拯救了我。

I will not laugh at you, because you are my candle.我不会嘲笑你，因为你是我的烛光。

Of cause, I will not, cause I love you.我当然不会，因为我爱你。

The pure, the bright, the beautiful is you.你是纯洁，光明，美丽的。

You dream of love and warmth.你的梦是充满着爱和温暖的。

The spirit is yearning cry.灵魂在深切的呼喊着。

To struggle for the better hope

为更美好的希望而挣扎。

These things can never die.这些东西永远都不会消逝。

Let love pass for every hand

让爱穿过每一个人的手心吧

You are my sunshine and you are my everything.你是我的阳光，你是我的一切。

第四篇：经典长城英语介绍（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：血汗长城英语作文

血汗长城英语作文

在生活、工作和学习中，许多人都有过写作文的经历，对作文都不陌生吧，作文是人们把记忆中所存储的有关知识、经验和思想用书面形式表达出来的记叙方式。作文的注意事项有许多，你确定会写吗？下面是小编帮大家整理的血汗长城英语作文，仅供参考，大家一起来看看吧。

你们好！我是天马行空公司的导游，我叫郑梓濠。今天，我就带你们游览我国伟大的建筑工程——长城。大家和我一起登上长城吧！

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!

你们远看，长城就像一条长龙，在崇山峻岭之间万蜿盘旋。从东头的山海关到西头的嘉峪关，一共有一万三千公里，多雄伟啊！

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!

现在，我们就在长城脚下。这一段长城修筑在八达岭上，高大坚固，是用巨大的条石和城砖筑成的。城墙顶上辅着的方砖，十分平整，像宽大的'马路，城墙外有两米多高的垛子。垛子上有方形的嘹望台和射口，是屯兵使用的，每隔三百多米就有一个城台，打仗时，屯兵就可以互相呼应了。

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.大家现在来到了长城上了。站在长城上，踏着脚下的方砖，很自然的就想起了古代人们建造长城的艰辛吧！大家看看这些条石，一块就有三千多斤重。那时候，什么车也没有，就靠这无数的肩膀，无数只手，一步一个脚印地抬上那个陡峭的山岭，多少劳动人民的血汗和智慧，才凝结成这前不见头，后不见尾的万里长城啊。

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，你登上长城就是做了一回好汉啦！下面，大家可以自由参观、拍照！半小时后集中，请大家在游览时注意安全，谢谢合作！

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!