外媒：長城為何漸漸消失

　　本日口譯文章：外媒看中國 長城為什麽逐漸消逝

　　據官媒報導，中國的明長城約莫有30%跟著時光的推移已消逝，這是因為晦氣的天然前提和不計效果的人類運動(包含偷長城上的磚蓋屋子)腐蝕了這座由結合國教科文構造認定的天下文化遺產。

　　長城有些處所破舊不勝，以是對它長度的估算從5600英裏到13000英裏不等，這取決因而否把消逝的部門涵蓋在內。只管長城很長，但不像偶然人們說的那樣從太空裏能瞥見它。

　　《京華時報》報導稱：“幾個世紀以來，個中有1200英裏已消逝了。”

　　周日的報導援用了中國長城學會客歲的查詢拜訪，說一部門長城風化掉了，另有的城墻裏植物瘋長加快了損毀。

　　《京華時報》援用學會的副會長董耀會的話說：“縱然部門城墻用磚石砌成，也不由得終年風吹雨淋。”

　　報紙彌補說：“旅行業和本地住民的運動也正在損壞這個天下上人類最長修建。”

　　據報導，處於華北的河北省的盧龍縣裏村落民很窮，曩昔常常敲下村落裏部門城墻上青灰色的厚磚拿去蓋房，並且刻有漢字的磚被本地住民賣到30元(4.80美元)一塊。

　　《全球時報》周一稱：“中國條例劃定從長城上偷磚會被處以高達5000元的罰款。”

　　報導稱，河北文化遺產掩護官員賈海林說：“然則沒有專門的部分來履行這一劃定，損壞行動只能申報上級構造，假如產生在兩省接壤處就很難處置了。”

　　報導還提到，近年摸索未開辟部門的長城作為休閑運動漸漸鼓起，帶來的旅客數目超越了這些野長城的負荷，對長城損毀緊張。

　　【參考譯文】

　　Around 30 percent of China's Ming-era Great Wall has disappeared over time as adverse natural conditions and reckless human activities -- including stealing the bricks to build houses -- erode the UNESCO World Heritage site, state media reported。

　　In places it is so dilapidated that estimates of its total length vary from 5,600 to 13,000 miles, depending on whether missing sections are included. Despite its length it is not, as is sometimes claimed, visible from space。

　　Of that, 1,200 miles has melted away over the centuries, the Beijing Times reported。

　　Some of the construction weathered away, while plants growing in the walls have accelerated the decay, said the report Sunday, citing a survey last year by the Great Wall of China Society。

　　"Even though some of the walls are built of bricks and stones, they cannot withstand the perennial exposure to wind and rain," the paper quoted Dong Yaohui, a vice president of the society, as saying。

　　Tourism and local residents' activities are also damaging the longest human construction in the world, the paper added。

　　Poor villagers in Lulong county in the northern province of Hebei used to knock thick grey bricks from a section of wall in their village to build homes, and slabs engraved with Chinese characters were sold for 30 yuan ($4.80) each by local residents, it said。

　　Under Chinese regulations people who take bricks from the Great Wall can be fined up to 5,000 yuan, the Global Times said on Monday。

　　"But there is no specific organisation to enforce the rules. Damage could only be reported to higher authorities and it is hard to solve when it happened on the border of two provinces," said Jia Hailin, a cultural relics protection official in Hebei, according to the report。

　　It added that explorations of undeveloped parts of the Great Wall -- an increasingly popular leisure activity in recent years -- had brought those sections more tourists than they could bear, damaging them severely。