紫禁城

Hundreds of centuries ago, the Mings built Tiananmen Square as anaddition to the sweeping grounds of the Forbidden City.

几千年前，明朝建造了天安门广场，紫禁城多了一个要清扫的地方。

There were recently over thirty thousand people in the Forbidden City to hear a concert by the three tenors.

最近，有三万多人会聚紫禁城参加世界三大男高音举办的音乐会。

At the southern end is the 'Meridian Gate'(technically, Tian'AnMen Gate is not part of the Forbidden City), to the north is the 'Gate of Divine Might', which faces Jingshan Park.

在南边是&午门&（从技术上讲，天安门不算紫禁城的一部分），在北边是&神武门&它正对这景山公园。

Hong Kong is an international city and melting pot of west/east culture and commercial intelligence.

香港是一个国际城市及东西文化和商业智慧的大熔炉，世界上大部份顶级的城市都有它们的歴史文化的标志性建筑物：-例如纽约的自由神像，巴黎的艾菲尔铁塔，北京的紫禁城，英国的白金汉宫，雪梨的歌剧院。

In the heart of Beijing, Chu Xia has brought her daughter, Li zi yan, a ruddy-cheeked seven-year-old, to visit the imperial palace complex called the Forbidden City.

在北京市中心，楚霞正带著她7岁的女儿李子颜在游览故宫紫禁城。小姑娘有著红扑扑的脸蛋。

Officials say 798—the name of this area, after the codename of one of its former military factories—has become one of Beijing's biggest attractions for foreigners after the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.

官员称798——这块地方的名字，因这里先前的一个军工厂而得名——已经成为北京最大的一个吸引外国游人的地方，除了长城和紫禁城之外。

There were 18 provinces in the empire and intelligence reports and tax ledgers arrived in the Forbidden City every day. An empire of 150 million people--- Han Chinese, Mongol, Manchu--- was governed from here by the world's oldest and most sophisticated bureaucratic machine.

清朝共有十八个行省，紫禁城内每天都有来自各地的密折和税吏奔波晋见，清朝统治着一亿五千万人口，包括汉、蒙、满各族，都由这个全世界最古老、最繁缛的官僚机器一手掌管。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。