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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

紫禁城 [zǐjìnchéng]
  1. 1. the Forbidden City (in Beijing)

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary (1 result)

紫禁城 [zǐjìnchéng]
  1. 1. 明清两代的宫城,在今北京市内城中央。紫微星座在天空的正中心,古人把它作为帝王居处的象征,所以把皇帝的宫禁称为紫禁。现为故宫博物院,已列入世界文化遗产名录。

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故宫也被称作紫禁城
The Imperial Palace is also called the Forbidden City.
紫禁城内的殿宇,金碧辉煌,异常雄伟。
Palaces within the Forbidden City are grand and resplendent.
紫禁城由禁卫们把守,外人不得随意进入。
The city of Beijing is guarded by imperial guards and strangers are not allowed in.
紫禁城
紫禁城是我国现存的最大最完整的古代宫殿建筑群。
Though Puccini had never visited the Middle Kingdom --he based his opera about a cruel princess on an Italian fairy tale--the story is meant to unfold in the Forbidden City. [Source: Web Examples ]
尽管普契尼从未涉足中国-他的歌剧取自一个意大利童话,讲述的是一位残忍的公主-故事的发生却是在紫禁城
His insistence that costumes be remade in Ming rather than Tang dynasty style, in keeping with the Forbidden City's vintage, added $330,000 to the tab. [Source: Web Examples ]
为了与紫禁城的修建时代同步,他坚持服装要按明代而不是唐代的款式重新制作,仅此一项就增加了33万美元的开支。

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