“丝路之梦”双语故事.docx

“丝路之梦”双语故事 目 录：01 丝绸之路02 四大发明03 南京秦淮04 “胡椒”来历05 郑和下西洋06 China来历07 中国功夫08 中国书法09 中国高铁走向世界10 英语——一门通用语言备 用：*11 风筝*12 中国结01 丝绸之路The?Silk?Road?dates?back?to?the?second?century?B.C.?when?Zhang?Qian,?a?Chinese?official?and?envoy?of?the?royal?court,?embarked?on?his?business?trip?to?Xiyu?(meaning?western?countries.) For?over?a?thousand?years?up?till?the?15th?century,?China?brought?its?silk?cloth,?goods,?gunpowder?and?paper?making?and?printing?techniques?to?the?West?via?this?road.?This?road,?in?return,?introduced?into?China,?Buddhism?and?Islam?as?well?as?grapes,?walnuts,?pomegranates,?cucumbers,?glass,?perfume?and?other?products?from?the?outside?world.?Because?China’s?silk?reached?the?West?along?this?road,?European?scholars?came?to?call?it?the?“Silk?Road”.?The famous traveler Marco Polo traveled along the Silk Road visiting Da Du which is today’s Beijing and wrote his famous book, “The Travels of Marco Polo.”丝绸之路的历史可以追溯到公元前二世纪，当时一名中国官员、朝廷的使者张謇沿着这条连接亚欧两大洲的贸易通道出使西域。15世纪前的一千多年前里，中国通过这条通道给西域各国带去了丝织物、火药、造纸术和印刷术。同时，这条通道也从国外给我们引进了佛角、伊斯兰教，以及葡萄、核桃、石榴、黄瓜、玻璃、香水等产品。因为中国丝绸是沿着这条道进入西方国家的，所以欧洲学者将此道称作“丝绸之路”。著名的旅行家马可波罗沿丝绸之路来拜访“大都”，也就是今天的北京，然后写下了著名的《马可波罗游记》一书。02 四大发明Papermaking, gunpowder, printing and compass are the Four Great Inventions of ancient China that have exerted a great and far-reaching impact on the entire world. The invention of paper greatly contributed to the spread and development of civilization. The birth of gunpowder was quite accidental. It was invented inadvertently by alchemists while attempting to make an elixir. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, gunpowder was used in military affairs, and was spread to all over the world in the 13th century. On the basis of printing in the Tang Dynasty, BiSheng in the Northern Song Dynasty invented the movable-type printing, which launched a great revolution in the history of printing. Natural magnets were made into the first direction-finding compass by ancient Chinese people, which greatly improved a ships ability to navi