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Dear Xiao Li,
亲爱的小李：
My time here in China is going well. I love my new school and classmates.
我在中国过得很愉快。我喜欢我的新学校和同学。
Over the October holiday, my parents and I are planning to go to Xi'an to see the Terracotta Army.
我和父母计划在国庆假期去西安参观兵马俑。
I've heard that it is an amazing sight, and I can't wait to go.
我听说这是个很棒的景点，我等不及要去了。
To me, the story of the Terracotta Army is almost unbelievable.
对于我来说，兵马俑的故事几乎难以置信。
It's amazing that there are more than 8,000 statues, and no one in modern times knew about them until the 1970s.
令我惊奇的是，那里有8000多个雕塑，直到上世纪70年代，人们才发现兵马俑，在此之前，没有一个现代人知道它们。
We're also planning to visit several other places in Xi'an.
我们还计划去参观西安的其他景点。
My dad and I are both looking forward to going to the Shaanxi History Museum,
我和我爸爸都想去陕西历史博物馆参观，
because my dad loves history and I have heard that this museum is known as a "Chinese treasure house"!
因为他喜欢历史，而且我听说这座博物馆被誉为“华夏宝库”！
We're also going to the Xi'an City Wall and a few other famous sights.
我们还要去西安城墙和其他几个著名景点参观。
We're taking the train, leaving the day before the October holiday begins.
我们要在国庆假期开始的前一天坐火车出发。
We're arriving at 9:30 a.m. and will start sightseeing right away, so I hope we sleep well on the train!
我们将会在上午9点半到达，之后就开始旅游，所以我希望我们能在火车上睡个好觉！
I guess that's all for now! I'll write again soon and send photos!
我想就这些了吧！我马上还会给你写信、发照片的！
Do you have any plans for the coming holiday? Hope to hear from you soon.
你对即将到来的假期有什么计划吗？希望尽快收到你的来信。
Your friend,
你的朋友
Richard
理查德
Terracotta Army
兵马俑
Come and see the Terracotta Army: more than 8,000 statues were made in the third century BCE to guard the tomb of the Chinese Emperor Qinshihuang!
来参观兵马俑吧：公园前3世纪，8000多个雕塑建造而成，它们的作用是守卫中国皇帝秦始皇的陵墓！
Each statue has a different face, leading researchers to believe that each one is a copy of a real soldier.
每个雕塑的面部都不一样，这让研究人员认为每个雕塑都是以真实士兵为模型制造出来的。
The statues fill only one part of the emperor's huge tomb, which still has not been completely unearthed.
雕塑只填满了秦始皇巨大陵墓的一部分，该陵墓仍未被全部挖掘。
More than 700,000 people worked for nearly 40 years to build this tomb.
超过70万人用了将近40年来建造这一陵墓。
However, no one in modern times knew about the tomb or the terracotta statues until 1974, when some farmers discovered the tomb while they were digging a well!
1974年，一些农民在挖水井的时候发现了秦始皇陵，但在此之前，没有一个现代人知道这一陵墓，也不知道兵马俑雕塑！
