英语黄河.doc

The Yellow River, sometimes simply called the River in ancient Chinese) is the second longest river in China (other than the Yangtze River) and the fourth longest in the world, at 3,395 km long [1]. Originating in the Bayankala Mountains in Qinghai Province in eastern Tibet, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into the Bohai Sea. The Yellow River basin has an east-west distance of 1900 km, and north-south distance of 1100 km. Total basin area is 752443 km2. The Yellow River is called the Mother River of China and the Cradle of Chinese Civilization in China, as its basin is the birth-place of the northern Chinese civilizations and the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. But frequent devastating flooding, largely due to the elevated river bed in its lower course, has also earned it the unenviable distinction as Chinas Sorrow. The Yellow River,is a river whom we call her mother.Also named Huanghe River,she rises on the northern slopes of the Bayankela Mountains of Qinghai,and falls 4,450m over a length of 5,465 km, draining an area of 795,000 km2.We Chinese can all remember that song dragons descendants which sang like There is a dragon in the faraway eastern,and its name is Huanghe.The Yellow River is the origin of Chinese. 黄河（Yellow River）——世界上含沙量最多的河流。黄河，中国的母亲河。若把祖国比作昂首挺立的雄鸡，黄河便是雄鸡心脏的动脉。黄河流程约5500千米，流域面积达到79.5万平方千米，上千条支流与溪川犹如无数毛细血管，源源不断地为祖国大地输送着活力与生机。 长度5464 千米，源头海拔4675米，平均流量 1774.5 立方米/秒，流域面积 752442平方公里，源头在青海省，注入渤海，上、中游分界点：河口，中下游分界点：孟津。发源地：巴颜喀拉山的约古宗列曲。 黄河是我国第二长河，世界第五长河，源于青海巴颜喀拉山，干流贯穿九个省、自治区，流经青海、四川、甘肃、宁夏、内蒙古、陕西、山西、河南、山东，全长5464公里， 流域面积75万平方公里，年径流量574亿立方米，平均径流深度79米。但水量不及珠江大，沿途汇集有35条主要支流，较大的支流在上游，有湟水、洮河，在中游有清水河、汾河、渭河、沁河，下游有伊河、洛河。两岸缺乏湖泊，黄河下游流域面积很小，流入黄河的河流很少。黄河的入海口河宽1500米，一般为500米，较窄处只有300米，水深一般为2.5米，有的地方深度只有1.2～1.3米。 Yellow River (Yellow River) - - in world silt content most rivers. Yellow River, Chinas mother river. If compares with the motherland the rooster which holds up the head to stand upright, Yellow River is the rooster he