长城的故事--英文

Contents I. History of Great Wall To Fend off Enemy Invasion Construction of Great Wall Takes More Than 2,000 Years Great Wall's Defence Function Gradually Decreases II. Three l0,000-Li Great Walls Qin Dynasty's Great Wall Emperor Qin Shihuang and Great Wall General Meng Tian Leads Soldiers in Construction of Great Wall Two Paralled Great Walls Army Plays Leading Role in Construction of Great Wall Han Dynasty's Great Wall Threat from the Huns Emperor Wu Di's Strategy Reconstruction of Great Wall Three Parallel Walls Construction of Great Wall in Desert Ming Dynasty's Great Wall Attack from Mongolian Cavalrymen Speed up Construction of Great Wall Inner and Outer Great Walls Qi Jiguang Constructs Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Great Wall Shanhai Pass, Not East Terminal of Ming Great Wall Six-Hundred-Year-Old Loess Wall III. Various Buildings on Great Wall and Their Functions City Walls Walls Built on Mountain Ridges Trenches Along Exterior Walls Castles at Strategic Positions Communications Facilities Along Great Wall Trapezium--A Stable Structure Wall Height Varies at Different Terrain Number of Walls Decided by Their Strategic Position Double-Sided and Single-Sided Walls Clay, Stone and Brick Walls Parapet and Battlement Walls Fighting Platform and Watchtower Drainage System Pass Cities Used to Pass Through Wall Shanhai Pass-Surrounded by Passes Nanhaikou Pass-Rising from Sea Huangya Pass--Bagua City Gubeikou Pass-Polygon-Shaped Pass City Great Wall at Jinshanling with Tight-Defence Facilities Great Wall at Simatai-Wall Built on Steep Slopes Mutianyu Pass-Not Built into Pass City Wall Built on Iron Bars Juyong Pass Formed by Three Passes jiayu Pass--Vital Passage of Ancient "Silk Road" Block City-Castle Beacon Tower Used to Deliver Military Information Earliest Communications Facilities Requirements for Setting up Beacon Towers Building Materials and Shapes of Beacon Towers Number of Soldiers on Guard and Method of Alarm Delivery by Signal and Courier Building Materials and Their Transport IV. Cultural Relics of Great Wall Han Tomb at Horinger County Cloud Platform Carved with Buddhist Scripture in Six Languages Horizontal Inscribed Board on Shanhai Pass Bricks Cast with Words Stele Boundary Markers at Badaling Pass to Enter and Exit Great Wall Wood Slips of Han Dynasty Iron and Copper Cannons and Other Weapons V. Legends of Great Wall Light a Beacon-Fire for Beloved Concubine Meng Jiangnu Looks for Her Husband and Tears Down Great Wall with Her Cries His Majesty Shut Out of Great Wall Widow Tower at Huangya Pass Lone Brick at Jiayu Pass Swallows Strike Pass Tower Door and Die General Cannon