介绍厦门的英语作文【有翻译】(2)

　　第二篇：介绍厦门的英语作文

　　Xiamen is an island city with a rich and dramatic history,replete with pirates,rebel leaders,and European merchants.Now linked to mainland Fujian by a causeway,Xiamen retains a strong international flavor.Known in the West as Amoy,Xiamen has a long history as a port city,and later became a center of British trade in the 19th century.Their foreign settlements,later taken over by Japanese invaders at the start of World War II,were established on the nearby small Gulangyu Island.Many of the old treaty-port and colonial buildings in Western styles survive.Xiamen was declared one of China’s first Special Economic Zones in the early 1980’s,taking advantage of the city’s heritage as a trading center and the proximity to Taiwan.Today Xiamen is one of China’s most attractive and best-maintained resort cities.Xiamen was founded in 1394 at the beginning of the Ming dynasty as a center of defense against coastal pirates.Its prosperity was due to its deepwater sheltered harbor,that supplanted nearby Quanzhou,the port that had been the center of the maritime trade with the Indies.

　　厦门是一个岛屿城市有丰富的和戏剧性的历史,充满了海盗,反对派领导人和欧洲商人。现在与大陆福建铜锣,厦门保留了强大的国际风味。在西方被称为厦门、厦门历史悠久的港口城市,后来成为英国在19世纪贸易中心。外国定居,后来被日本侵略者在第二次世界大战的开始,是建立在附近的小的鼓浪屿。西部的许多旧条约口岸和殖民建筑风格生存。厦门宣布中国首个经济特区之一,在1980年代早期,利用城市的遗产作为一个贸易中心和接近台湾。今天厦门是中国最有吸引力的和最好的度假胜地的城市之一。厦门成立于1394年年初明朝作为防御中心沿海海盗。它的繁荣是由于深水庇护港附近取代泉州港,西印度群岛的海上贸易的中心。