(单词翻译:单击)
A high battlemented wall encompasses the modern city. It runs for half a mile along the brow of the Kidron valley, facing Olivet, then turns at right angles and zigzags across Moriah, the Tyropean, and Zion, to the brow of Hinnom. The whole circuit is two miles and a half. The city was always fortified, and the walls and towers formed its most prominent features. Hence the language of the exulting Psalmist: "Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof, mark ye well her bulwarks."
一座有着城垛的高墙围绕着这座现代化城市,它与汲沦谷相距大约半英里,面朝奥利弗山,然后转了个右弯,曲折地穿过摩利亚、提洛潘和锡安,最后到达了欣嫩子谷的坡顶,整段行程是两英里半
Jerusalem has no suburbs. There is no shading off of the city into the country—no long streets radiating from a centre, then straggling houses, and villas, and gardens, such as we are accustomed to see in English towns. The moment you pass the gates of Jerusalem you are in the country, —a country open, bare, without a single house, and almost desolate. Not a green spot is visible, and not a tree, save here and there a little clump of gnarled, dusky olives. Rounded hill-tops, and long reaches of plain, strown with heaps of gray limestone, extend from the walls far away to the north and to the south. There is no grandeur, beauty, or richness in the scenery. It is bleak and featureless.
耶路撒冷没有郊区,没有从城市向乡村的荫凉,没有从市中心辐射出来的长长的街道,也没有我们在英国城镇中经常看到的零星的房屋、别墅和花园
Hence the sad disappointment felt by most travellers on approaching Jerusalem from the west and the south. They can only see the serrated line of gray Saracenic walls extending across a section of a bleak, rocky plateau. But when I stood that morning on the brow of Olivet, and looked down on the city, crowning those battlemented heights, encircled by those deep and dark ravines, and when the rising sun bathed in a flood of ruddy light the terraced roofs of the city, I involuntarily exclaimed, —"Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, the city of the great King!"
因此,大多从西边和南边前往耶路撒冷的旅行者们都大失所望,他们只能看到灰色的撒拉逊岩壁锯齿状的线条延伸到一片荒凉的、多石的高原之上