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White Cliff of Dover

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发表于 2012-12-29 01:39:55 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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Dover的白色悬崖绝壁是和法国面临的英国海岸线的一部分。岩壁上的北部为丘陵。崖面高度可达到350英尺(110米),其引人注目的外观由于其组成粉笔条纹的黑色燧石而加剧。峭壁延伸到东部和西部的肯特郡小镇Dover,一个古老而仍然是重要的口岸。White Cliff悬崖在英国有巨大的象征意义,因为他们面向欧洲大陆横跨英吉利海峡,在那里历史上面临过威胁和入侵,形成一个象征性的防卫。由于交叉在多佛这个主要港口,对大陆或者空中旅行,白线也形成了英国的第一个或最后一个看见的旅客。

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The White Cliffs of Dover are cliffs which form part of the English coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The cliffs are part of the North Downs formation. The cliff face, which reaches up to 350 feet (110 m),[1] owes its striking façade to its composition of chalk accentuated by streaks of black flint. The cliffs spread east and west from the town of Dover in the county of Kent, an ancient and still important English port.

The cliffs have great symbolic value in Britain because they face towards Continental Europe across the narrowest part of the English Channel, where invasions have historically threatened and against which the cliffs form a symbolic guard. Because crossing at Dover was the primary route to the continent before the advent of air travel, the white line of cliffs also formed the first or last sight of the UK for travellers.


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发表于 2012-12-30 21:24:46 | 显示全部楼层
第一张一看就很有岛国特色,不错呀!
下次什么时候自驾一下去瞅瞅~
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