术语“城墙”的详细信息

英译术语:

city wall

汉语语境:

城墙是古代人们为了防御来自外界的侵扰而修建的自卫设施。在中国几千年的筑城史中，明代是筑城活动的最后一次高潮，也是城墙修筑的成熟阶段。现今在全国范围内所看到的城墙，大部分是明代扩建或新建的。明南京城墙和西安城墙均沿用旧城城墙，扩建于明初。二者都是中国古代城垣建筑史上的典范之作。

英语语境:

City wall was a kind of military installation against invasions from the outside in the ancient times. All through the thousands of years in the Chinese history, Ming Dynasty was the last peak and the most mature stage of city building. Most city walls we see today in China were restored or newly built early that period. Both the Nanjing and Xi'an walls were restored in the Ming Dynasty on the basis of the old walls, and both of them were the classics in the history of ancient Chinese city-wall building.