四川景点英文导游词.docx

都江堰--英语导游词系列5 2010-01-31 goer 都江堰中文介绍：著名的古代水利工程都江堰，位于四川都江堰市城西，古时属都安县境而名为都安堰，宋元后称都江被誉为“独奇千古”的“镇川之宝” 。建于公元前三世纪，是中国战国时期秦国蜀郡太守李冰及其子率众修建的一座大型水利工程，是全世界至今为止，年代最久、唯一留存、以无坝引水为特征的宏大水利工程。２２００多年来，至今仍发挥巨大效益，李冰治水，功在当代，利在千秋，不愧为文明世界的伟大杰作，造福人民的伟大水利工程。是全世界至今为止年代最久、唯一留存、以无坝引水为特征的宏大水利工程。是我国科技史上的一座丰碑。 （都江堰导游图）都江堰英文导游词：The Dujiangyan Dam, 45km north of Chengdu, is an ancient technological wonder of the country. More than 2000 yers ago, Li Bing(250-200BC), as a local governor of the Shu State, designed this water control and irrigation dam and organized thousands of local people to complete the project to check the Mingjiang River.For many years the river,flooded the Chengdu agricultural area and local farmers suffered a lot from the water disaster. Due to the success of the project, the dam automatically diverts the Mingjiang River and channels it into irrigation canals. For many years the dam has continued to make the most of the water conservancy works.Expansion has been undertaken since 1949 and at present the system does a good job of irrigating farming land across 33counties of the western part of Sichuan Province. Local people feel proud of the system becaude it has supported a large amount of people in their daily life.What makes this system so good?The system is a large hydraulic water project which consists of three main parts: the Fish Mouth Water-Dividing Dam, the Flying Sand Fence, and the Bottle-Neck Channel.The Fish mouth functions to divide the flow of water into an inner river and an outer river. Long ago, when Li Bing worked as the local governor of the Shu State, he found the old river canal was too narrow to hold much water, which often overflowed the banks and caused disastrous flood. Based on natural geographic conditions, he organized the people to build a man-made dam. The whole dam looks like a fish, and the front dam has a circular cone shaped like a fish mouth. It is the dam that channels water into an outer canal and an inner canal. The outer water canal functi