They say it can even be seen from space

據說在太空中也能看到它

It's a military masterpiece that has witnessed hundreds of battles yet it still holds many mysteries

它是見證了上百次戰鬥的軍事傑作，但它仍有許多謎團。

British writer and Historian William Lindsay has lived in China for 20 years exploring the great [wall] has become his lifetime obsession

英國作家、歷史學家威廉-林賽在中國生活了20年，探尋長城[牆]成為他一生的執念。

Lindsay has spent thousands of days on has walked thousands of kilometers [and]

林賽花了數千天的時間，走了數千公里的路。

Is the great [war] really how many years did it take to build?

偉大的[戰爭]真的是花了多少年才建成的嗎？

And why was it built to talk crap on [salary] or Roll to your quarters?

而為什麼建在[工資]上說廢話，或者滾到你的宿舍去？

It's only a short trip from beijing to one of China's most popular attractions

從北京到中國最受歡迎的景點之一，只需很短的路程。

Millions of tourists come here every year to see the stone dragon the great wall of China

每年有數百萬遊客來此觀賞石龍長城。

Most of the people walking on the great war here today will go home and say I've been to the great wall of China

今天在這裡走在長征路上的人，大部分回家都會說我去過中國的長城。

But the great [wall] is not a place it ranges across the sub-continental expanse of [North] China

但長[牆]不是一個地方，它橫跨[北]中國的次大陸範圍。

And along its course

沿著它的路線

many of the locations seldom visited

很多地方很少去

And some virtually unknown

還有一些幾乎未知的

in 1987 [busy] fulfilled his childhood dream

1987年，[忙]圓了兒時的夢想。

He walked on the Chinese war two thousand seven hundred kilometers

他走在中國戰爭的兩千七百公里上。

Only a few pictures remain from this adventure because his films were repeatedly confiscated foreigners were barred from many parts of China

因為他的電影屢屢被沒收，外國人被禁止進入中國許多地方，所以這次冒險只留下了幾張照片。

Those times have long changed

這個時代早已改變

China has opened up to the world and an adventure has turned into a scholar

中國對外開放了，一場冒險變成了一場學者

[Lindsay] now seeks out traces of the [great] [wall] of [China] right across the country

[林賽]現在尋找的痕跡 [長城][中國]在全國各地的 [長城][中國]。

23 years after his first trip he sets off again

第一次旅行23年後，他再次出發了

during the same

同期

exploring 23 years later is really a testament to the

23年後的探索，真的是一個證明。

immensity of

浩瀚

What we call the [great] [wall] of [China]

我們所說的[中國][長城]。

[will] be [our] [hearts] in the last two-and-a-half decades. I explored the warm or 1700 days

在過去的二十五年裡，[將]是[我們]的[心]。我探索了溫暖或1700天

[I've] discovered. It's the world's most famous building, but the least-known there's always something new to discover

[我]發現。它是世界上最著名的建築，但卻是最不為人知的... ...總有一些新的東西值得我們去發現。

there is

有

there is no single great warm there are lots of words in Northern China built by different dynasties for more than

北方沒有一個偉大的溫暖 有很多字，由不同的朝代建造的，不止一個。

2,000 years

兩千年

William Lindsey is taking us to one of the most remote places

威廉-林賽要帶我們去一個最偏遠的地方。

2300 Kilometer Drive, West of Beijing to the City of doing one

2300公里的車程，北京西邊的城市做了一

into the Gobi desert

進入戈壁沙漠

[clearly] that 75 miles Northwest of don't want

[明確]，75英里的西北不想

And it's a nice sunny day in the gobi doesn't perfect conditions for exploring the great wall

戈壁上的陽光明媚，是探索長城的絕佳條件。

In the shimmering heat the dark Ribbon along the Horizon at first looks like a mirage, but these really are the remains of a war

在微微的熱浪中，地平線上的黑絲帶乍一看像海市蜃樓，但這些確實是戰爭的遺蹟。

literally in the middle of nowhere

荒郊野外

Well one of the most precious parts of the [great] [wall] of [China]. This is the hand war hell 2100 years ago

嗯，【中國】的【長城】最珍貴的部分之一。這就是2100年前的手戰地獄

And [I'm] not the first traffic to come here. This is the silk Road

而[我]不是第一個來到這裡的交通。這裡是絲綢之路

So merchants would come from the deserts in Central, Asia

所以商人們會從中亞的沙漠裡來，亞洲的沙漠裡來。

entering [China] at this point and then

此時進入[中國]，然後

Proceed East to the Heartland of [China]

向東走到[中國]的中心地帶。

So it's going to take a closer look

所以要仔細觀察一下

Built over 2,000 years ago this wall looks completely different to the familiar Great [warley] efficient. It's not built of stone

建於2000多年前的這座城牆，看起來與我們熟悉的大[warley]高效完全不同。它不是由石頭建造的

But this construction material has kept its strong for Millennia read and gravel

但這種建築材料在千年來一直保持著強大的閱讀和礫石。

But who [is] this war meant to protect so far from Civilization?

但是，這場戰爭離文明這麼遠，是要保護誰呢？

the Han Dynasty

漢代

Rulers wanted to open Their empire to trade with the West

統治者希望開放他們的帝國，與西方進行貿易。

So they secured control of the eastern end of what became known as the silk Road?

所以他們確保了對後來被稱為絲綢之路的東端的控制？

the Han Chinese

漢人

occupied the vital [if] [she] colony

佔據了重要的[如果][她]殖民地。

That runs along the road between them more than steps and the [himalayan] hotels

沿著他們之間的道路，比臺階和[希馬拉雅]酒店更多。

It's a real border not just between peoples, but between lifestyle

這不僅是人與人之間的邊界，也是生活方式之間的邊界。

the Nomads of the Step vignettes traditional round tent

階梯小品傳統圓帳

They live entirely from their livestock [wandering] over the step they pitch there. Yes, wherever they find grazing land for their herds

他們完全靠他們的牲畜[徘徊]在他們投在那裡的臺階上生活。是的，凡是他們找到放牧地的地方。

after enduring long hard winters in the steps these nomadic warriors ransacked China's Northern provinces

戎馬倥傯

Year after year they killed [road] stealing food and metals everything their lifestyle prevents the producing

年復一年，他們殺了[路]偷了食物和金屬 他們的生活方式阻止了一切的生產。

The Chinese regarded their empire as the cradle of civilization

中國人視帝國為文明的搖籃

According to their confusion philosophy it was the cultural center of the world

根據他們的混亂哲學，這裡是世界文化中心。

Appeasing the Barbarians along the water by trading is out of the question

通過交易來安撫水邊的蠻族是不可能的了

[all] was too expensive so the harm emperor decided to build a wall

所有]太貴了，所以害人的皇帝決定修築城牆

How many people were involved in the construction of the harm or no one knows for sure?

到底有多少人参與了危害的建設，還是沒有人知道？

Reliable sources quote the calculations presented to the emperor

可靠的消息來源引用了提交給皇帝的計算結果。

If one soldier can build three [places] of war in one month than 300 and build three [leap] about one-and-a-Half kilometres

如果一個兵一個月能建三個[戰地]比三百，建三個[飛躍]約一公里半的地方

That means a thousand Li were about [500] [30] kilometers would take a hundred thousand men one month to complete

也就是說，一千李約[500][30]公里要十萬人一個月才能完成。

So far so good

到目前為止還不錯

and so many

諸如此類

Most of the soldiers were stationed at the towers the towers had a dual use that made the most effective defense

大部分阿兵哥都駐紮在大廈上 大廈具有雙重用途，是最有效的防禦手段

[the] Beacon town behind me was not only the perfect vantage

我身後的烽火鎮不僅是一個完美的有利位置

Point [four] guards on this frontier to watch for the enemy coming from the north [it] was a signaling station

點[四]守在這個邊境上，監視從北方來的敵人[它]是一個信號站。

So when the animal was cited this beacon would have been ignited

所以當動物被引出時，這個烽火臺會被點燃的

This is how it worked as soon as a guard spotted nomadic warriors

這是它的工作方式，只要有衛兵發現遊牧民族的戰士。

He transmitted smoke signals by Daylight, or Beacon fires at night

他在白天傳送煙霧信號，或在晚上傳送烽火。

The alarm was communicated along the wall to [Garrison's] located in the Hinterland

警報沿牆傳到了位於腹地的[加里森的]。

How long is the ham war only recently have [Chinese] experts started to find?

火腿戰多久了最近才有【中國】專家開始發現？

Join the local archaeological survey ting

參加當地的考古調查

taking part in a national survey

參加全國調查

to locate dynasty

尋朝

A team is heading out into the [gobi] desert. They need a whole summer just to measure this section

一支隊伍正向[戈壁]沙漠進發。他們需要一整個夏天來測量這段沙漠。

At noon the temperature can decline to the 40 degrees celsius?

中午時分，氣溫可以下降到40攝氏度?

Today the team is exploring a fortification that lies in the hinterland of the [hardwar]

今天，該小組正在探索位於[硬仗]腹地的一個防禦工事。

This could have been a Garrison for support Troops

這裡可能是支援部隊的駐紮地

Today the remains are hardly visible

如今幾乎看不到遺蹟了

Right here, and [that's] all you guys hear this tower has a name

就在這裡，[這就是]你們聽到的所有這塔有一個名字。

it's called half Tower obviously because half the tower is missing the team here today to locate the

它被稱為半塔顯然是因為半塔失蹤了 今天團隊在這裡找到了它的位置

Fortifications with GPS and wondering how they're going to measure the height because it's so Crumbly, [Alaska]

有了GPS的防禦工事，還想知道他們怎麼測量高度，因為它太脆了，[阿拉斯加]。

needs a [Ma]

需要一個[馬]

Their dog are high challenge you [were] you another Paula [only] all [touchy] you are so that?

他們的狗都是高難度的挑戰你[被]你另一個寶拉[只]都[摸]你是這樣的嗎？

You can get that [other] [players] are

你可以得到[其他][玩家]是。

Only used for year [and] [will] not cold weather are

只用於年[和][將]不冷的天氣是。

So they don't have to have to climb up the tower to measure it. They have a device here

所以他們不必非得爬到塔上測量。他們這裡有一個設備

[right] here

[右]這裡

Hey the laser rangefinder Connects the data

嘿，激光測距儀連接數據。

It will be a Few years before the results of the survey are

幾年後才會有調查結果。

summarized and a figure can be given for the length of the harm war

歸納起來，可以給出一個危害戰時長的數字。

The challenge opens a lot of your body are [organized] [or] so from here to the Jade gates is about

挑戰賽開啟很多你的身體都是[整理][還是]所以從這裡到玉門關是關於的

45 50 kilometers

45 50公里

And there are three sections of war that are quite visible

而戰爭中有三部分是相當明顯的。

And in between there's virtually nothing although the archaeologists may find traces

雖然考古學家可能會發現一些蛛絲馬跡，但這中間幾乎什麼都沒有。

Mr.. Young is very little reluctant to give a guesstimate of how many kilometers of hand wall standing

楊先生很不情願地給出了一個猜測，手牆站立多少公里？

[GPS], team Leader, Mr.

[GPS]，組長，先生。

[jung] has given William

[君]已經給威廉

directions to a place in the desert where the wall has a unique shape it's a 16 kilometres hike so william is buying provisions for

去沙漠中的一個地方的訓示 那裡的牆有一個獨特的形狀 這是一個16公里的徒步旅行，所以威廉要買補給。

The trip but don't [want] market

旅行，但不[要]市場。

well

清楚

Roll Mate would be very good chance in the desert

在沙漠中，Roll Mate將是非常好的機會。

[yeah]

[是的]

A lot of what he sees doesn't seem too useful for a desert trick, but he finally finds what he needs

他看到的很多東西對沙漠的把戲似乎並不太有用，但他終於找到了他需要的東西

successful shopping trip for 199 also put supply of High-energy foods

成功的199次購物之旅，也讓高能量食品的供應更加充足。

Delicious.

董事

Next morning, and find the clock [Lindsay] sets off for the hike

第二天早上，找到時鐘【林賽】出發去爬山了

also select

並選擇

It's 14.4 K so it's about

它是14.4K，所以它是關於。

99 miles or more he's not walking alone in the desert it would be too dangerous

99英里或更遠的路程，他不是一個人在沙漠裡走，那太危險了。

With him is his Chinese friend

和他一起的還有他的中國朋友

El cajon [sun] coming [up] that their GPS says they will reach the unique strip of wall in five hours

El cajon[太陽]來了[起來]，他們的GPS說，他們將在五個小時內到達獨特的帶狀牆。

[yeah]

[是的]

It's cool. No, but the Sparse vegetation is [tinder-dry] there hasn't been any rainfall here for months

涼爽。不，但稀疏的植被是[火柴幹]這裡已經幾個月沒有降雨了。

[then] walking in the featureless landscape can see a solitary tree over

[然後]走在沒有特色的景觀可以看到一個孤獨的樹在那裡。

in 87

在87年

[I] just had a big [mouth] for the whole country

[我]只是有一個大[口]的全國。

Basically my journey along the wall from the desert to the sea

基本上是我沿著長城從沙漠到大海的旅程。

Was like that

是這樣的

1700 miles not the ideal [Map] for [Hiking] across desert Grassland

1700英里不是理想的[地圖]，[徒步]穿越沙漠草原

It's nearly noon and the sun is burning, but finally they arrived at the place. They've been looking for there it is

快到中午了，烈日炎炎，但他們終於到了地方。他們一直在尋找那裡，它是

right that

沒錯

[lasted] [A]

[持續] [A]

great

巨大

Act brand for William it's already worth the trip even the five hours back amazing. Hey

為威廉做品牌已經值得了，即使是5個小時的路程，也是驚人的。嘿嘿

Look at that fantastic

你看，那神奇的

Of all the faces that the great wall of China house, this is the rarest of [them] [off]

在中國長城所擁有的所有面孔中，這是最罕見的[面孔][關]。

This wall is made of wood

這面牆是用木頭做的

He has six layers of branches there

他有六層枝條

and

和

And in between minimal use of the gravel, so I'm really glad I've come here today well worth the 10 mile track

而且在這之間，最小限度地使用礫石，所以我真的很高興我今天來到這裡，很值得10英里的軌道。

Leaving the doing one region and making his way D stand on the ancient silk Road Williams aiming for a town called [John] [Glenn]

離開做一個地區，讓他的方式D站在古絲綢之路威廉姆斯的目標是一個名為[約翰][格倫]的小鎮。

The Historic site is five kilometers out of town

歷史遺蹟在城外5公里處。

And the best view is from the sky

而最美的風景是在天上

a giant castle guarding the [wall] built in 1539 by judging emperor of the Ming Dynasty

堅城

The main Emperor's contempt for the Nomads reached protest proportions with the demand that the character [g]

主帝對遊牧民族的蔑視達到了抗議的程度，要求人物[g]。

Standing for Barbarians should be written as small as possible

站在野蠻人的立場上，應該儘量寫得小一些

After the han Dynasty other dynasties rose and fell many of them built walls, but none of any significant length

漢代以後，其他朝代興衰，很多朝代都修築了城牆，但都沒有明顯的長度。

Me emperor [genius] [ended] the Dragon throne in 1521

我皇帝[天才]1521年[終結]龍位。

He renewed the [hun] tradition established in ancient times

他繼承了古代建立的[匈奴]傳統。

Constructing a long wall of the Northern border with its westernmost point at the jog one pass

在北疆最西端的慢跑山口修建一條長長的圍牆。

[Jaguar] translates as a barrier to the Pleasant Valley and Pleasant Valley means China

捷豹]譯為歡樂谷的屏障，歡樂谷是中國的意思

This gigantic fault is built in the foothills of the himalayas

這個巨大的斷層建在希馬拉雅山腳下。

In the courtyard the mighty walls form a kind of maze to stop invaders in their tracks

在院子裡，強大的牆體形成了一種迷宮，阻止入侵者的腳步。

And there's a wonderful legend about its construction

而關於它的建造，還有一個奇妙的傳說。

To Avoid wastage of materials prior to construction of the fortress the architect was asked to calculate exactly how many bricks

為了避免材料的浪費，在建造堡壘之前，建築師被要求計算出到底有多少磚頭。

required be computed

所需

[999999] the Bricks were delivered the fortress built and at the end the chief of works

[999999]磚塊交付後，堡壘建成了，最後是工程負責人。

Confronted the architect with a brick and said this is wasted, but the architect was too smart

用磚頭面對建築師，說這是浪費，但建築師太聰明瞭。

He said no I factored that into the equation

他說不行，我把這一點也算進去了。

That brick should be placed over the portal and it will bring

那塊磚應該放在門戶上，它會帶來

All the guards in the fortress and all of those travelers passing under its portals good fortune

堡壘裡的所有守衛和所有從堡壘門下經過的旅行者都有好運

600 Years later the Leftover Brick still remains

600年後，殘磚剩瓦依然存在

[yeah]

[是的]

[yeah]

[是的]

Next to the fort is the starting point of the wall constructed by the [way]

堡壘旁邊是[方式]修建的城牆起點。

This wall has nothing in common with the brick and stone

這堵牆與磚石沒有任何共同之處。

[it's] made of rammed the [loads] more than 400 years old and still in good shape and [its] still wide enough to walk

[它]由夯實的[負載]超過400年的歷史，仍然處於良好的形狀和[它]仍然足夠寬，以步行。

[yeah]

[是的]

On his walks along the Walls [William] [Lindsay] soon Learned. He could count on receiving warm hospitality from the farmers among the wedding

在他沿著城牆散步時[威廉][林賽]很快就學會了。他可以指望收到熱情的款待 從農民之間的婚禮

Before coming to China my family and friends were very concerned in

在來中國之前，我的家人和朋友都很關心我的情況。

1987 going to [China] the big

1987年赴[中國]大

Communist country on the other side of the world all the people going to be friendly

共產主義國家在世界的另一邊，所有的人都會很友好。

And I didn't have a support crew with me on [dependent] on Farmers. [I] discovered very early on the farmers were my

而且我沒有一個支持團隊和我一起[依賴]農夫。[我]很早就發現農民是我的。

great

巨大

allies even with very little [Chinese]

盟友，即使是很少的[中國]。

But a lot of sign language and smiling [I] got what I needed food water shelter without them

但很多手語和微笑[我]得到了我所需要的食物 水和住所沒有他們

I couldn't have been successful Asean come on

我不可能成功的，亞細安來吧

I seea even if many is unkind understand why a foreigner should be so interested in the wall

我看就算很多人不善於理解為什麼一個外國人要對這堵牆這麼感興趣？

Then this is no monument, but simply a part of the village and one with a perfectly practical use

那這就不是什麼紀念碑了，只是村子的一部分，而且還有著非常實用的用途。

I was asking my er the these holes in the wall. I thought they were nasty but in fact

我問過我的老二這些牆上的洞。我以為它們很噁心，但事實上

Previously the farms were right up against the wall, so [they're] wooden

以前的農場就在牆邊，所以[它們是]木頭的。

Beams going into the wall, but the great wall experts the cultural heritage protection authorities

橫樑要進牆，但長城專家文物保護主管部門

requested the Farmers to

要求農民

Destroy those buildings and move back in [order] in order to protect the national heritage if you want to know how many

毀掉這些建築，按[順序]遷回，以保護國家遺產，如果你想知道有多少個。

Dynasty [Mason's] constructed their [wall] more than 400 years ago [what] you have to do is keep your eyes open

王朝[梅森]在400多年前建造了他們的[牆][你要做的]是睜大眼睛。

even today

時至今日

Chinese Farmers build walls of the same way their ancestors did they tempt the earth in a wooden case [if]

中國農民用祖先的方式築牆，他們用木箱誘導大地[如果] 。

temp put layer on layer

層層遞進

They even sing the traditional folk songs passed down from their forefathers

他們甚至還唱著祖先傳下來的傳統民歌。

A house is not complete without a wall around it

沒有圍牆的房子是不完整的

[says] an old Chinese proverb

俗話說

My friend Tran is building this wall to and closed his compound, so this is the final piece of work

我的朋友Tran正在建造這堵牆，並關閉了他的大院，所以這是最後的作品。

and

和

This is embedded in Chinese

這是用中文嵌入的

Architectural tradition

建築傳統

whether it's a compound

是否複合

For a village or a kingdom it must be enclosed

對於一個村莊或一個王國來說，它必須是封閉的

completely safe

萬無一失

They built up most of the men wore just like this is a [rounder] [swore]

他們建立了大部分的男人穿的就像這樣是[更圓][發誓]。

Imagine how many billion [birds] it took?

想象一下，這需要多少億隻[鳥]？

[Georgia] guns on each [Unger] Tower 10 sure

[喬治亞州]每座[昂格爾]塔10上的火炮都是肯定的。

Busy Long-ago

忙碌的很久以前

Oh, I hated [husband] the singing is an important part of the work. It keeps all the rappers

哦，我恨[老公]唱歌是工作的重要組成部分。它讓所有的說唱歌手

And staff the beat