用英语介绍法国

The name “France” comes from Latin Francia, which literally means “land of the Franks” or “Frankland”. There are various theories as to the origin of the name of the Franks. One is that it is derived from the Proto-Germanic word frankon which translates as javelin or lance as the throwing axe of the Franks was known as a francisca.Another proposed etymology is that in an ancient Germanic language, Frank means free as opposed to slave. This word still exists in French as franc, it is also used as the translation of “Frank” and to name the local money, until the use of the euro in the 2000s.However, rather than the ethnic name of the Franks coming from the word frank, it is also possible that the word is derived from the ethnic name of the Franks,[citation needed] the connection being that only the Franks, as the conquering class, had the status of freemen. In German, France is still called Frankreich, which literally means “Realm of the Franks”. In order to distinguish from the Frankish Empire of Charlemagne, Modern France is called Frankreich, while the Frankish Realm is called Frankenreich.The word “Frank” had been loosely used from the fall of Rome to the Middle Ages, yet from Hugh Capet's coronation as “King of the Franks” (“Rex Francorum”) it became usual to strictly refer to the Kingdom of Francia, which would become France. The Capetian Kings were descended from the Robertines, who had produced two Frankish kings, and previously held the title of “Duke of the Franks” (“dux Francorum”). This Frankish duchy encompassed most of modern northern France but because the royal power was sapped by regional princes the term was then applied to the royal demesne as shorthand. It was finally the name adopted for the entire Kingdom as central power was affirmed over the entire kingdom.

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The French Republic (French: R é public Fran ç aise, English: French Republic), referred to as "France", is a semi presidential Republic native to Western Europe, and its overseas territories include some areas of South America and the South Pacific.

France is the third largest country in Europe and the largest country in Western Europe.

法兰西共和国（法语：République française，英语：French Republic），简称“法国”（France），是一个本土位于西欧的半总统共和制国家，海外领土包括南美洲和南太平洋的一些地区。法国为欧洲国土面积第三大、西欧面积最大的国家。

France lies in the heart of Europe with a total area of 551000 square kilometers and a population of 57,500,000. French borders on Italy, Switzerland and Monaco in the east and Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg in the northeast and Spain, Andorra in the Southwest and England to the Northwest. French is symmetrical hexagon. Its three sides are near sea and three sides are near land. Its boundary line is 5300 kilometers and coastline is about 3120 kilometers. Basically French is a plain country. 80% of its territory is plain and hill. Plain land at an elevation of below 250 meters is about 60% of its total areas. Hills between 200 to 250 are about 20% while more than 500 is about 20%. The terrain is low in northwest and high in southeast.French is the first tourism country in the world. In this romantic country, you can enjoy famous snacks and grape wine, at the same time you can also enjoy beautiful rural scenery or significant Medieval castle or the joy of skiing in snowcap Alps or you may swim in the attractive blue sea and feel the glamour of this romantic capital which is filled with cultural and modern taste.When talking about France, we can’t ignore the culture of French food and drink. The food and drink in France enjoys a long lasting fame for its long history, various and dainty kinds, and unique character. Its cooking skills are the second to none among the western style food, of which the French feel proud. More than half of great cooks in the European first class of large restaurants are Frenchmen From the emperor Louis fourteen in the history France has formed an important and continuously developing banquet foreign policy. These well-arranged delicacies and cakes are called French style banquet. Two hundred dishes can be put on the table once. What the Frenchmen like most are snails and frog legs. The rarest dishes are goose livers, and the common home dish is fried beefsteak with threadlike potato. In terms of drink, what the French like most is grape wine. When they have a meal, they will pay much attention to the match of dainty cakes and wine ,such as meat with red grape wine .fish with white grape wine and so on. Besides Frenchmen are fond of cheese Cheeses with different taste reach more than 400. It’s consumption quantity ranks first in the world, therefore France was given the name of “ Kingdom of Cheese”.

翻译：1.埃菲尔铁塔

艾菲尔铁塔(法国:洛杉矶参观埃菲尔铁塔是一个位于巴黎的马尔斯广场的一个水坑铁格子塔。它建于1889年，已成为法国的全球标志，也是世界上最知名的建筑之一。这座塔是巴黎最高的建筑[10]，也是世界上参观人数最多的纪念碑;每年有数百万人来攀登。这座塔以其设计师古斯塔夫·埃菲尔(Gustave Eiffel)的名字命名，是1889年世界博览会的入口拱门。

这座塔高324米(1063英尺)，与81层楼高差不多。完工后，它超越了华盛顿纪念碑，成为世界上最高的人造建筑的头衔，这个头衔被保留了41年，直到1930年纽约的克莱斯勒大厦建成;然而，由于1957年天线的增加，塔现在比克莱斯勒大厦高。它不包括广播天线，是2004年米洛高架桥之后法国第二高的建筑。

这座塔有三个等级供游客使用。门票可以通过楼梯或电梯购买到第一层和第二层。走到第一层的台阶有300多个台阶，从第一个台阶到第二层台阶。第三和最高水平只能通过电梯进入。第一层和第二层都有餐厅。

这座塔已经成为巴黎和法国最突出的象征，经常是在城市里拍摄电影的场景。

2.凯旋门

凯旋门是巴黎最著名的纪念碑之一。在香榭丽舍大街的西端，它位于查尔斯·戴高乐的中心。[1]有一个较小的拱，凯旋门，它位于卢浮宫的西面。凯旋门(以英语为“凯旋门”)，表彰那些在法国大革命和拿破仑战争中为法国而战和牺牲的人，他们的名字来自法国的所有胜利，而将军们则在其内部和外部表面上刻有铭文。在它的拱顶下躺着第一次世界大战中无名士兵的墓。

凯旋门是历史轴心(斧头史家)的关键所在，它是一条从卢浮宫的庭院、通往拉德芳斯大拱门的路线上的一系列纪念物和宏伟的大道。这个纪念碑是由Jean Chalgrin在1806年设计的，它的肖像项目是在连锁邮件中，以英勇的裸体法国年轻人对抗长胡子的日耳曼战士。它为公共纪念碑定下了基调，带有胜利的爱国主义信息。

纪念碑的高度为50米(164英尺)，宽45米(148英尺)，深22米(72英尺)。大拱顶高29.19米(95.8英尺)，宽14.62米(48.0英尺)。这个小拱顶高18.68米(61.3英尺)，宽8.44米(27.7英尺)。它是现存的第二大凯旋门(在平壤凯旋门之后)。它的设计灵感来自于罗马拱门(Titus)。“凯旋门”是如此之大，以至于在1919年的巴黎胜利阅兵式上，在第一次世界大战结束时，查尔斯·戈德维德(Charles Godefroy)驾驶着他的Nieuport biplane飞行，并在新闻片上捕捉到这一事件。