The journey is long and hot. You travel across dry land, with rocky hills and small trees. Then you must walk between high mountain walls. At last you begin to leave this dark place and come into the light. And suddenly you have arrived in Petra, and you can see in front of you the beautiful building of pink stone called the Treasury. You are looking at one of the world’s wonders.
There are old wonders and new wonders in the world. Some are made by people, and some belong to the natural world. From these thousands of wonders, the author has taken eleven of his favourites – cities and temples, from the East and the West, from the sea, the land, and the sky. Turn the page, and come on a journey to some of the most wonderful things in the world today.
旅途漫長(zhǎng)且炎熱。你穿越干旱的土地，那里有嶙峋的山丘和低矮的樹(shù)叢。接著，你必須行走于高聳的山壁之間。終于，你開(kāi)始離開(kāi)這片黑暗之所，抵達(dá)光明之地。轉(zhuǎn)瞬間，你就來(lái)到了佩特拉古城，在你眼前的是一座由粉紅巖石構(gòu)成的絕美建筑，它被稱(chēng)為“金庫(kù)”。此時(shí)你正在欣賞著的地方便是世界奇觀之一。
世界上的奇觀或早已有之，或新近入選；或由人創(chuàng)造，或成于天然。作者從這成千上萬(wàn)處奇觀中選出了自己最喜愛(ài)的11處，它們有城邦，有廟宇，或來(lái)自東方，或源于西方，或在海洋之中，或在大地之上，或于天際之間。翻開(kāi)書(shū)頁(yè)，與我們一同踏上旅途，領(lǐng)略當(dāng)今世界一些精妙絕倫的奇觀吧。