双语阅读：英语美文欣赏（带翻译）

时间：2017-02-07 16:59:38
来源：平和英语村作者：平和英语村

Romantic Venice

What images come to mind when you think of a trip to Venice?

No doubt you imagine yourself taking a romantic gondola ride along narrow canals and under delicate bridges.

Venice was built on more than 100 islands and has about 150 canals.

The best-known of these, the Grand Canal,

functions as the main street in the part of the city most popular with visitors.

The canal winds through each of the six districts that comprise this historic city center before reaching Venice Lagoon.

One of these districts, San Marco, is home to many of Venice's main attractions, including St. Mark's Basilica.

This spectacular church has five main arches and some extraordinary onion-shaped domes.

It is decorated with priceless treasures,

many of which were stolen from other countries when medieval Venice was a leading sea power.

浪漫水都——威尼斯

想到威尼斯一游，你的脑海中会浮现出什么画面？

毫无疑问你一定会想象自己乘坐浪漫的平底船，沿着窄窄的运河航行，从一座座别致的桥下穿梭而过。

威尼斯建在100多个小岛上，拥有大约150条运河。

最有名的运河就是大运河，

它位于市区游客最多的地方，并发挥大街的功能。

这条运河在构成这个历史上的市中心的六个行政区间蜿蜒穿流，最后流入威尼斯湖。

行政区之一的圣马可是许多威尼斯主要旅游景的中心，包括圣马可大教堂。

这座雄伟的大教堂有五道大拱门和数座壮观的洋葱形圆顶。

教堂用很贵重的珠宝装饰，

其中许多是在中世纪威尼斯称霸海权时从其它国家掠夺来的。

origin of dragon dance

one day, the dragon king’s was suffering from terrible back pain and it was more than he could endure.

in the dragon palace there was no medicine that could cure the back pain.

the dragon king decided to disguise himself as an old man to seek medical help.

when the doctor felt the pulse of the old man he sensed something really strange and said: "you are not the human!"

the dragon king’s look of dismay could not conceal the truth.

he told the doctor the truth and the reason for his visit.

thereupon the doctor asked him to change into his true form. the doctor seized a centipede from the scales around the waist of the dragon king.

the dragon king was restored to full health.

in order to thank the gracious doctor for his treatment. the dragon king said to the doctor that, "good crops will come, so long as a dragon dance according to my appearance is played.

the story spread among the people, then every spring the dragon dance was played to pray for rain to produce good crops.

关于舞龙的由来的传说

一天，传龙王背痛得受不了了。

在龙宫里有没有药可以治背痛。

于是龙王把自己乔装成一个老人出去求医。

医生诊脉时，觉得龙王的脉象异常说道：“不是凡人”。

龙王一脸惊慌，但却无法隐瞒真相。

于是就跟医生说了实话，也说了他来求医的原因。

于是，医生让龙王变回真身，然后从龙王腰部的龙鳞下面揪出一条蜈蚣。

龙王就好了。

为了感谢医生的治疗，龙王对医生说“舞龙可带来好收成”。

这个故事在民间传播开了，每年春天都会舞龙，以祈求来年有好收成。

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