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1、岳阳楼英文导游辞 Goodmorning!Ladiesandgentlemen TodaywewillgoandvisittheYueyangTower,YueyangTowerliesinthewestofYueyangcity,nearbytheDongtingLake,itislistedasthreefamoustowersinthesouthofYangtzeRiver,togetherwithYellowCraneToweratWuhan,HubeiprovinceandTengwangToweratN
2、anchang,Jiangxiprovince. YueyangTowerwasoriginallybuiltforsoldierstorestonandwatchout.IntheThreekingdomsPeriod,Lusu,GeneralofWuState,trainedhissoldiershereandthenrebuiltitasatowertoreviewhistroops. Intheforthyear(716A.C)ofKaiyuanofTangDynasty,GeneralZhangshuowasdi
3、spatchedtodefendatyuezhouandherebuiltitintoaTowernamedSouthTower,andthenYueyangTower.Intheforthyear(1044A.C)ofQingliofSongDynasty,TengZijingwasstationedatBalingJun,theancientnameofYueyangcity.Inthesecondyear,hehadtheYueyangTowerrepairedandhadpoemsbypreviouspoetsinsc
4、ribedonthewallsoftheTower.FanZhongyan,agreatartistandpoet,wasinvitedtowritethewell-knownpoemaboutYueyangTower,inhisessaywhichentitled《APanegyricoftheYueyangTower》,thetwosentencesFanwrites“Bethefirsttoworryaboutthetroublesacrosstheland,thelasttoenjoyuniversalhappines
5、s”haveforthousandsofyearsbeenawell-quoteddictumandmadethetowerevenbetterknownthenbefore. ThearchitecturalstyleofYueyangTowerisquiteunique.Themaintoweris21.35metershighwith4columns,3stories,flyingeave,helmetroofandwoodconstruction,thehelmet-roofofsuchalargedimension
6、isararityamongtheancientarchitecturesinChina. Enteringthetower,you"llpassthefamouscouplet"Dongtingisthewateroftheworld,Yueyangisthetoweroftheworld."Movingon,thereisaplatform(Dianjiangtai)thatoncefunctionedasthetraininggroundforthenavyofThree-KingdomperiodgeneralLus
7、u.ToitssouthistheHuaifuPavilioninmemoryofDufu(712-770AD),whowasthefamouspoetduringtheTangdynastyandwrotethefamouspoemandlaterdiedinthecity.SteppingoutoftheXiaoxiangDoor,theSaintPlumPavilion(Xianmeiting)andtheThreeDrunkardsPavilion(Sanzuiting)canbeseenstandingontwosi
8、des.InthegardentothenorthofthetoweristhetombofXiaoqiao,thewifeofZhouyu,anotherfamousThree-Kingdomgeneral.
