
关于旅游的经典英语短句
1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine3. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson4. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson5. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell6. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac7. “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb8. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes9. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck10. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang11. “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley12. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson13. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller14. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese15. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller16″A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi17. “When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence18. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark19. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain20. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard21. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber22. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru23. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux24. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson25. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson26. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost27. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu28. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner29. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu30. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener31. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot32. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill33. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain34. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu35. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien36. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou38. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew39. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”……Anatole France40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca41. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon42. “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith43. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley44. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark45. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling46. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux47. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton48. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman49. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni50. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
谁能用英语写一篇介绍我国城市的作文
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这两篇参考一下一.The features of a city are its buildings. As a factor most reflecting the times, society and nation,the buildings give overall and integrated expression to the national tradition, regional features spirit of the times and the social value. When you walk along the financial street of the Bund and the commercial street of East Nanjing Road and among the villas and gardens of Xujiahui, you can feel the history of prosperity of Shanghai. In the past 150 years since its opening in 1843, Shanghai has gradually developed into an international metropolis as well as an important economic, trade financial and cul-tural center of China. The special development op-portunities have made the western culture, local Shanghai culture and regional cultures of China collide, co-exist and become integrated and thus make Shanghai integrate the essence of the Chinese and Foreign cultures. In this way, Shanghai has become the place of origin for the modern Chinese con-struction culture and has a unique history of con-struction culture. The modern buildings of Shanghai are rich in styles, almost covering those of almost all the periods of the world construction history. It can be said that they constitute a living world construction history. You can see the new classicism buildings, Gothic building and compromise buildings, to the modernism buildings popular in Europe and America, decoration and art buildings and the new classicism Chinese buildings. The number of the styles, the complexity of the types and the grand scale of those builds are beyond match in this world. They give a comprehensive reflection of the evolution of the modern society and cities and also provide a key to learn the culture of Shanghai and the history of modern China. Those old buildings have seen the changes of Shanghai and are bestowed with the prosperity of Shanghai. At this age, when China is embracing a new round of great economic development and the new concepts and ideas will bring Shanghai to an even brighter future, those old buildings will be bestowed with new significance. Who will wake them up, wash away the dust, make them become stronger and make them stay young and beautiful? It is we. We will devote all our enthusiasm and wisdom to accomplish this mission. 漫步街头,寻找城市的足迹,最显而易见的是城市的建筑。
建筑是文化领域中最具有时代性、社会性和民族性的因素,整体而又集中地体现了民族传统、地域特性、时代精神和社会的价值取向。
徜徉外滩金融街。
南京东路商业街、徐汇区的花园别墅群间,看到的是上海兴盛的历史。
自1843年开埠以后,上海在150年中,逐渐发展成为一个国际化的大都市,成为中国重要的经济中心、贸易中心、金融中心和文化中心。
特殊的发展际遇,使西方文化、上海本地文化和中国不同地域文化在此相互间冲撞、并存,融合,糅合了古今中外文化的精粹,令上海成为中国现代建筑文化的策源地,拥有独特的建筑文化历史。
上海的近代建筑有着十分丰富的内涵,在近百年的建筑中,几乎囊括了世界建筑各个时期的各种风格,简直就是一部活生生的世界建筑史。
从新古典主义,哥特复兴式、折衷主义到盛行欧美的现代主义建筑、装饰艺术派建筑。
复兴中国传统建筑艺术的中国新古典建筑等,各种风格数量之多、种类之繁杂、规模之宏大在世界上也是罕见的。
它综合反映了近代社会和城市演变的历程,是解读上海文化、研究近代中国的一把钥匙。
这些历尽世事的老房子是上海的精神所系,她们目睹上海的变迁,承载着城市的繁华旖梦。
现在,又一次的经济发展席卷中国大地,冲击一切的新观念、新思想,又一次飞速地推动着城市向新的未来发展,这些老房子必将被赋予新的意义。
由谁来惊醒她们,由谁来为她们洗去尘埃,由谁来令她们的身肢更为矫健,令岁月流逝不再是遗憾——是我们,我们愿意为此付出我们的热情和智慧。
二..Beijing and Shanghai are the two biggest and most important cities in China. Now let's have a quick and short look at them. Beijing, is the nation's political, economic, cultural and educational center as well as China's most important center for international trade and communications. As the capital of the PRC, Beijing is located in northern China. The city covers an area of more than 16,410 square kilometers (6336 square miles) and has a population of 14.93 million people. Beijing is a city with four distinct seasons. Beijing's long and illustrious history started some 500,000 years ago. Records show that Beijing has been an inhabited city for more than three thousand years. For more than 800 years, Beijing was a capital city - from the Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368) to the Ming (1368 - 1644) and Qing (1644 - 1911) dynasties. Although now Beijing is a modern and fashionable city complete with a full 21st Century vitality, you can experience authentic Beijing life and become acquainted with 'old Beijing' by exploring its many teahouses, temple fairs, Beijing's Hutong and Courtyard and enjoy the Peking Opera. There are many sights in Beijing like Tian'anmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, as well as the Temple of Heaven and so on. With its century-old history and unique cultural relics, and as the host city of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing attracts more and more visitors. Shanghai, China's largest modern city, is situated in the middle of China's east coastal line. Shanghai covers an area of over 6,340 squarekilos and has a population of over 15 million. It is the largest economic and trade centre in the country and acomprehensive industrial base. It is an open city along the coast, as well as a famoushistorical and cultural city. Shanghai's history of revolution andculture attract tourists home and abroad. Being regarded as Paris of China and as the paradise for shopping, Shanghai has become an idealcity for tourism. The Pudong Development Area in Shanghai is an important specialeconomic zone in China. Efforts are being made to develop Shanghai into a modern international economic, financial and trade centre. Welcome to visit Beijing and Shanghai!



