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麦积山石窟中英双语介绍

Maiji Mountain Grottoes

麦积山石窟

Located near Tianshui, a major city in Eastern GansuProvince, Wheat-

Pile Mountain (The Maiji), reputedas the "Oriental Sculpture Museum,"is 142 met

reshigh.

位于天水附近,甘肃省东部的一个大城市,麦积山被誉为“东方雕塑艺术馆”，142米

高。

The name comes from the fact that the mountainlooks like a stack of wheat.

这个名字来自这样一个事实:这座山看起来像一堆小麦。

There are altogether 194 grottoes (the grottoes are divided into east grottoes

and westgrottoes) in all,and there are 54 grottoes in the east,and 140 grottoes in

the west.

共有194个石窟(石窟分为东石窟和西石窟),东有54个石窟,西有140个石窟。

All of them are cut on cliffs,

80 metres above the ground on the southern side of the mountain.

它们都在离地面80米高的山南面的削壁陡崖上。

The grottoes contain more than 7 200 clay or stone sculptures and over 1

300 square metresof murals,

石窟包含超过7 200泥土或石头雕塑和超过300平方米的壁画,

both of which are works of the 4th to 19th centuries (Northern Wei,Western

Wei,NorthernZhou,Sui,Tang,the Five Dynasties,Song,Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasti

es)—making them a perfectexample of China's sculpture through the ages.

都是4世纪到19世纪的作品(北魏、西魏、北周、隋、唐、五代、宋、元、明、清）

使得它们成为中国雕塑古往今来的一个完美例子。

In addition to clay sculptures,there are more than 2

000 pieces of pottery, bronze ware, ironware, and jade articles, ancient books,do

cuments,paintings,calligraphy and other culturalrelics in the 194 grottoes.、

除了泥土雕塑,在194个石窟中还有超过2 000件陶器,青铜器、铁器、玉制品、古

书、文件、绘画、书法和其他文物。

The highest figure is about 16 metres,and the smallest being only 10 centime

tres.

最高的人物约16米,最小的仅10厘米。