Holland 荷兰

Holland is a nation that is well known for its open and gritty spirit. Modern Dutch enjoy the fruits of predecessors, their own intelligence and industry.
　　
　　Amsterdam contains many famous museums, such as the Rijks museum which is dedicated to the art of Vincent Van Gogh, and the National Museum where each year more than one million visitors admire the masterpieces of 17th century Dutch art.
　　
　　Leaving the metropolitan area, which unites the great Dutch centers from Amsterdam to Rotterdam, you enter another world, made up of windmills and canals, of dikes and dams, of lands wrenched from the sea. Here farmers, engineers, ruddy-faced men, and lace-clad women modeled the landscape like clay, transformed a hostile environment into a colorful scene from a fairytale.
　　
　　荷兰是一个开通而坚韧不拔的民族。现代荷兰人的幸福生活得益于先辈和其自身的才智与努力。
　　
　　阿姆斯特丹拥有很多著名的博物馆。比如专门收集凡高作品的Rijks博物馆，以及国家博物馆，它每年要接待100多万游客来此参观17世纪的荷兰艺术精品。
　　
　　离开阿姆斯特丹和鹿特丹所在的荷兰中心地区，又进入了另一个世界。这是风车与水渠的世界，密布着堤坝和围海造田后的土地。这里的农民和技师，脸膛赤红的男人和身着花边衣裙的妇女就像用粘土塑造风景一样，将恶劣的环境变成人间仙境。
　　
　　Like the beavers, the Dutch are great builders of dams. 27% of the Dutch territory lies below the sea level. Over the centuries it was protected by dikes and later drained, making the land cultivable and habitable.
　　
　　"God created the earth but left the Dutch the task of creating Holland." Thus goes a local saying, proof of the struggle to reclaim the territory, which is situated against the sea. This challenge has been tried by the ranks of men who over the centuries, tried to create new strips of land to cultivate, in order to survive.
　　
　　The Dutch windmills, which once numbered more than ten thousand, were replaced by the advent of new pumping systems.
　　
　　Nowadays Holland is the third largest producer in the world of agricultural foodstuffs. And two thirds of its territory is given over to agriculture.
　　
　　和海狸一样，荷兰人也是筑坝高手。荷兰有27%的领域低于海平面。经过几百年的筑堤排水，人们已经在这些地方安居乐业了。
　　
　　当地人有句话：上帝制造了泥土，但让荷兰人自己创造国土。这证明那些沿海而生的人们，在几个世纪中，是如何为了生存而力图修筑新的土地。
　　
　　荷兰曾经拥有一万多台风车，现在它们已经被新的抽水系统替代。
　　
　　如今，荷兰是世界第3大粮食生产国。其2/3的国土用于农业生产。
　　
　　The city of Haarlem is considered the world´s tulip capital. Besides for its role in the world market for this product, this city is also famous for the passion it reserves for adorning its narrow streets with flowers of various colors and different species, thus resulting in its name as the city of flowers.
　　
　　Haarlem is a real city, which has little to do with provincial Holland, it is a city that really belongs to the Rndstad. And yet its flower markets, with the boxes of tulips on display on every street give it a less metropolitan air.
　　
　　The village of Volendam, in the Waterland, is surely one of the most picturesque areas in Holland. It is no coincidence that it was in this village where 19th century artists came to portray Holland in its natural form- minute and provincial with clogs, bonnets and girls with red cheeks.
　　
　　Many of these pictures can still be admired today inside this old hotel, the Spaandor Hotel. In fact, the penniless 19th century painters often paid for their stay with their own artwork.
　　
　　Haarlem被公认为是郁金香之都。除了它在国际花卉市场的地位，在Haarlem那些被缤纷的花朵所装点的小巷也相当有名。所以，它又被称为花都。
　　
　　Haarlem就是一个城市，与其它外省地区不同。它隶属于Rndstad地区。这里的花卉市场和街巷中摆放的成箱的郁金香掩盖了当地的一些城市色彩。
　　
　　Waterland地区的Volendam村是荷兰最具特色的地方之一。19世纪的画家都爱在这里描绘典型的荷兰风光，木底鞋，帽子和女孩绯红的面颊。
　　
　　这些让人赞叹的画还保存在这个古旧的Spaador旅馆里。其实，19世纪贫穷的画家常用自己的作品抵押住宿费。
　　
　　Nowadays in Volendam it is the cameras that immortalize the traditional Holland. The town combines the typical wooden fishing buildings with the costumes of popular tradition.
　　
　　Colour is also the dominant feature in fishing, both in regards to the paint on the boats and most importantly in regards to the great market on Saturday afternoon. The boats unload the fish which are mainly herrings and eels caught from the Ijsselmeer in Volendam, mainly herrings and eels.
　　
　　In Marken you can admire the typical houses, painted in green and black. The interiors of these buildings are particularly unusual, characterized by an almost obsessive tidiness, and also by lacework and by an abundance of ornaments.
　　
　　The inhabitants of Marken, unlike the Catholics of nearby Volendam, are Protestants, but similarly they also honor feast days with the beautiful traditional costumes.
　　
　　如今，Volendam如实地保留住了荷兰的传统。典型的木制渔民房屋和流行的传统服饰映衬着小镇。
　　
　　丰富的色彩在捕鱼生活中是一个显著特点。它们出现在船身上，特别是出现在周六午后的鱼市上。渔船把在Ijusselmeer湖中捕到的鱼卸下来。这些大多是青鱼和鳗鱼。
　　
　　在Marken地区，你可以欣赏到典型的房屋，它们被漆成绿色和黑色。这些房屋的内部也很与众不同。屋内异常洁净，并布置了花边和大量的装饰品。