在阅读中加入英语，是一种常见的提高英语水平的方法。小编在此献上用英语来了解中国的历史文化，希望大家喜欢。
用英语说中国汉朝：Rise of Confucianism as Main State Ideology 独尊儒术
Confucianism rose as the main state ideology during the time of Emperor Wudi in the Western Han Dynasty (206B.C.----8A.D.).
儒家思想在西汉(公元前206年至公元8年)武帝时期成为了国家的主流意识。
In the Qin Dynasty (221—206B.C.), Legalism served as the state ideology
秦朝时(公元前221年至公元前206年)，法家思想是国家的主流思想。
and at the beginning of the Han Dynasty (206B.C.—220A.D.), Laozi's theory that was more moderate and humane was put into practice.
在汉朝(公元前206年至公元220年)初期，更为温和和仁慈的道家思想被实施。
However, Laozi's thoughts did not fit Wudi's political ambition to consolidate his position and strengthen his power when he became the emperor.
但是，在武帝执政时，道家思想与他渴望巩固个人地位和加强个人统治的政治野心不符。
In 140 B.C, Confucian scholar Dong Zhongshu admonished the ruler to establish Taixue (an academy) to educate the crown prince and to produce elite for governmental offices.
公元前140年，儒学学者董仲书劝武帝建立太学(一种机构)来教导皇家子弟并为政府机构提供精英人才。
He did an excellent job in answering questions raised by Wudi.
他完美地回答了武帝提出的问题。
Wudi was deeply impressed and attached great importance to Confucians and some were even assigned to the high positions of minister.
武帝对此印象深刻，因此重视儒学，有些儒学学者还被任命为高级官员。
In Dong Zhongshu's words, the ruler should pay supreme tribute to Confucianism while rejecting all other schools of thought.
董仲书说，当权者应该独尊儒术，罢黜百家。
From then on, all government officials were required to learn and study the Confucian Classics and laws were interpreted accordingly.
从那时起，所有的政府官员都被要求学习儒家经典，法律也相应地作出解释和说明。
The orthodox Confucianism helped to establish the ideological foundation in the feudal society of China.
传统儒家思想帮助中国封建社会创建了思想基石。
用英语说中国汉朝：Beginning of the Silk Road 开辟丝绸之路
As an interconnected series of routes, the Silk Road (丝绸之路) is through Southern Asia traversed by caravan and ocean vessel, and connecting Chang'an, China with Antioch, Syria, as well as other points.
作为一个使不同地区相互连接的道路，丝绸之路穿过了南亚，无数商队和远洋船舶在其上形式，它将古中国的长安与叙利亚的安提俄克以及其他一些地方连接起来。
Its influence carries over on to Korea and terminates eventually in Japan.
它的影响力遍及韩国甚至达到日本。
The continental Silk Road diverges into North and South routes as it extends from the commercial centers of North China, the North route passing through the Bulgar-Kypchak zone to Eastern Europe and the Crimean peninsula, and from there across the Black Sea, Marmara Sea and the Balkans to Venice;
陆上丝绸之路分为南线和北线，它自中国北部的商业中心沿北线穿过保加利亚钦察地区到达东欧和克里米亚半岛，再从哪里穿过黑海、马尔马拉海和巴尔干半岛到达威尼斯;
the South Route passing through Turkestan-Khorasan, through Iran into Mesopotamia and Anatolia, and then through Antioch in Southern Anatolia into the Mediterranean Sea or through the Levant into Egypt and North Africa.
南线穿过土耳其斯坦-呼罗珊地区和伊朗到达美索不达米亚和安纳托利亚，在经过安纳托利亚南部的安提俄克到达地中海或者是经过黎凡特到达埃及和南非。
These exchanges were critical not only for the development and flowering of the great civilizations of Rome, China and India, but they laid the foundations of our modern world.
这些交流不仅对于罗马、中国和印度文明的发展与形成异常重要还为我们的现代世界奠定了基础。
While goods and religious ideas may have travelled the whole way, ancient trade was probably conducted over sections of the routes and it is probable that merchants and travellers very rarely, if ever, covered the whole distance between Europe, or the Middle East, and China, by land.
当物品和宗教信仰在丝绸之路上传播时，古老的贸易可能也在这条路线上进行着，也许很少有商人和旅行者能够由陆路走遍丝绸之路上的每一个地方——欧洲或是中东和中国。
These routes can be traced back to Han Dynasty, from 138 B.C, Emperor Wu dispatched Zhang Qian(张骞) twice as his envoy to the Western Regions,
这些路线可以被追溯到公元前138年的汉朝时期，汉武帝派遣张骞作为侍者出使西域两次，
and in the process pioneered the route known as the Silk Road from Chang'an, through Xinjiang and Central Asia, and on to the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
并在过程中自长安起，穿过新疆和中亚，以地中海东岸为终点开辟丝绸之路。
Following Zhang Qian's embassy and report, commercial relations between China and Central as well as Western Asia flourished, as many Chinese missions were sent throughout the 1st century B.C， initiating the development of the Silk Road.
根据张骞的使团和报告，因为在公元前1世纪左右，中国派出大量使团以发展丝绸之路，中国和中亚与西亚之间的商业关系繁荣发展。
In 97 A.D. the Chinese general Ban Chao (班超) went as far west as the Caspian Sea with 70 000 men and established direct military contacts with the Parthian Empire, also dispatching an envoy to Rome.
公元97年，将军班超带领70000人马西行远至里海，与帕提亚帝国建立了直接的军事联络，还向罗马派遣了使者。
Several Roman embassies to China soon followed from 166 A.D.
罗马紧接着自公元166年其向中国派遣使团。
Good exchanges such as Chinese silk, African ivory, and Roman incense increase the contacts between the East and West.
对于中国丝绸、非洲象牙和罗马香料的交换加强了东西方之间的联系。
Contacts with the Kushan Empire led to the introduction of Buddhism to China from India in the first century.
与贵霜帝国之间的联系使得佛教在一世纪时传入中国。
The height of the importance of the Silk Road was during the Tang dynasty, with relative internal stability in China after the divisions of the earlier dynasties since the Han.
丝绸之路的重要性在唐朝达到顶峰，唐朝时，中国在历经了自汉朝时起的分裂状态后达到了国内相对的稳定。
In the seventh century, the Chinese traveler Xuan Zang (玄奘) crossed the region on his way to obtain Buddhist scriptures from India.
七世纪时，玄奘穿过此路去印度求取佛教真经。
The art and civilization of the Silk Road achieved its highest point in the Tang Dynasty.
丝绸之路的文化与文明在唐朝时达到新高度。
Chang'an, as the starting point of the route, as well as the capital of the dynasty, developed into one of the largest and most cosmopolitan cities of the time.
长安，作为路线的起点同时也是唐朝的首都，发展成为了那时最大也最具国际化的城市之一。
After the Tang, however, the traffic along the road subsided, along with the grotto building and art of the period.
然而，唐朝以后，丝绸之路上的旅行、石窟建筑和艺术都沉寂了下来。
The Five Dynasties period did not maintain the internal stability of the Tang dynasty, and again neighboring states started to plunder the caravans.
五代时期没有维持住唐朝时的国内稳定，因此邻近的地区再次开始抢劫旅行队。
China was partially unified again in the Song dynasty, but the Silk Road was not as important as it had been in the Tang.
中国在宋朝时期再次得到统一，可那时的丝绸之路已
