2018考研英語翻譯每日一句:長安

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本期主題【長安】
    Chang'an,now called Xi'an,was the capital city ofthe Tang Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty,Chang'an was nearly eleven times as large as today'sXi'an,and was a metropolis with an internationalreputation. The streets and residences of Chang'anwere designed like a chessboard, with neat and well-proportioned layout of the east and west.Lots of streets and avenues inside the city were over100 meters wide.Chang'an was also the cultural center of China at that time,with rich andcolorful entertainment activities such as music,dancing,cock fighting,etc.Many studentsfrom Japan and Korea came to study in Chang'an,and merchants from Central Asia went alongthe Silk Road to gather there.Among the population of about one million in Chang'an,therewere more than 10,000 foreign households.
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    長安,今稱西安,是唐朝的都城。唐朝時期的長安約比今天的西安大11倍,是具有國際聲譽的大都市(metropolis)。長安的街道和住宅設(shè)計得像一個棋盤,東西布局整潔、勻稱。長安城內(nèi),很多街道的寬度都超過了100米。長安也是當(dāng)時中國的文化中心,有豐富多樣的娛樂活動,如音樂、舞蹈、斗雞(cock fighting)等。很多日本和朝鮮的學(xué)生紛紛來到長安學(xué)習(xí),中亞的商人經(jīng)絲綢之路(the Silk Road) 聚集在此。長安城約100萬人口之中,外國人就超過了1萬戶。