环球双语：印度泰姬陵也做面膜

1、环球双语：印度泰姬陵也做 " 面膜"Indian experts have begun a six-month project to clean the white marble archways, carvings and crannnies of Taj Mahal -the world's greatest monumentto love by coating them in a special mud.The monumental face pack consists of multani mitti, or fuller's earth, a li

2、me-rich clay found across northern India and used in many face masks and body treatments.K.S. Rana, director of the science department of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI),said: "We will leave it overnight and then, the moment it starts drying, we will remove it, just like a face pack.&q

3、uot;The marble of the Taj Mahal is quite intact - it is very high quality. There is just some yellowing in the arched areas and other parts not exposed to the rain. The mud is being used to clean only those areas."The Taj complex was completed in 1653 by Shah Jahan, the Mogul emperor, in memory

4、 of Mumtaz Mahal, his second wife. It is India's top tourist site, attracting three million visitors every year.Rising levels of dust and industrial pollutants from the surrounding city of Agra,130 miles (210km) southeast of Delhi, have stained some of its white marble surfaces yellow.The mud tr

5、eatme nt, which costs about£ 115,000, was first tried six years ago,according to the ASI.Some experts argue that the mud causes variations in the marble's whiteness and exposes it to fungus and even worse staining, but the ASI says that it is the only way to clean it without causing serious

6、 damage.This year local authorities began a simultaneous campaign to clean up the surroundings of the Taj by demolishing illegal structures, banning squatting and restricting rickshaws to designated areas.Dr Rana said that his team of two dozen experts had already erected the first set of scaffoldin

7、g on a small section of the World Heritage site and would start work in the next few days.The work would continue until late March and resume in January next year for another three months, but the monument would remain open to the public throughout that time, he said.(Agencies)印度泰姬陵堪称世界上最伟大的爱情纪念碑。日前

8、，印度有关专家开始对泰姬陵的外表进行 翻新，他们将在泰姬陵的大理石拱门、雕刻和裂缝处敷上一层特制的粘土。整个翻新工程将 持续六个月。这种特制 "面膜 "的主要成分是 "漂白土 " 。漂白土产于印度北部，是一种富含石灰石的粘土， 很多面膜和印度草药护肤品中都含有这种成分。印度考古研究所主任 KS 拉纳说：涂在表层的粘土将保存一夜，等它慢慢干了之后，我 们就把它剥下来，就和做面膜一样。 "" 泰姬陵的大理石质量很好， 所以现在依然保存完好。 只是拱门处和未经过雨水清洗的地方有 些发黄，因此翻新工程也仅限于这些地方。 "泰姬陵于

9、1653 年建成，是印度莫卧儿王朝君主沙贾汗为了纪念他的爱妃泰吉?马哈尔所建。泰姬陵是印度最的旅游景点，每年都吸引了300 万名游客前来欣赏。泰姬陵位于距新德里东南 130 英里 210 公里的阿格拉市，由于阿格拉周边地区的粉尘和工业污染日益严重，泰姬陵白色大理石外表的一些地方开始发黄。据印度考古研究所介绍， "面膜 "翻新工程将耗资约 11.5 万英镑，这一方法于六年前首次试用。一些专家质疑这种方法会影响大理石的洁白度，滋生菌类，反而会使大理石面变得更脏，但印度考古研究所称这是不会对泰姬陵造成严重破坏的清洗方法。与此同时， 当地政府今年开始整顿泰姬陵的周围环境- 违法建筑

10、被去除、 摩托车被禁止通行，黄包车只能在指定区域内活动。拉纳说，目前 20 多名专家已在该世界遗产景点即泰姬陵的一小局部搭好了首批脚手架，并将在未来几天内正式开工。据介绍，翻新工程将持续至今年 3月下旬，并将于明年 1 月开始为期三个月的第二期工程， 但施工期间泰姬陵仍将对外开放。Word是学生和职场人士最常用的一款办公软件之一，99.99% 的人知道它，但其实，这个软件背后，还有一大批隐藏技能你不知道。掌握他们，你将开启新世界的大门。Tab+Enter,在编过号以后，会自动编号段落Ctrl + D 调出字体栏，配合 Tab+Enter 全键盘操作吧Ctrl + L 左对齐， Ctrl + R 右对齐， Ctrl + E 居中Ctrl + F 查找，Ctrl + H 替换。然后关于替换，里面又大有学问！有时候Word文档中有许多多余的空行需要删除，这个时候我们可以完全可以用查找替换来轻松解决。翻开 编辑菜单中的 替换对话框，把光标定位在 查找内容输入框中，单击 高级按