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       ???????????????????? {?????????“??”??????????transportation?communication(s) [(U) (also communications [pl]) means of communicating, eg roads, railways, telephone and telegraph lines between places, or radio and TV (OALD) = ??????????“??”]???traffic [(1) vehicles moving along a road or street (2) movement of ships or aircraft along a route: cross-channel ~ (3) number of people or amount of goods moved from one place to another by road, rail, sea or air = ??(??)+???????“??”?]}???????????????????????????????1.6??????????7000??????????????????? {????????“???”????freight terminal?freight station??Webster 1913???freight terminal??: Any station for the delivery or receipt of freight lying too far from the main line to be served by mere sidings.??????????BNC??????freight station???????????????freight terminal?} ??????????????????{???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(???)??????????????? (????1999?????, ?228??= marshaling yard: a place where railway wagons are brought together to form trains and goods are loaded (Based on LDoCE and WordNet)}

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Xi’an

       Xi’an, now capital of shanxi Shaanxi Province, is the eastern gateway [a place, esp. a city, that you can go through in order to reach another much bigger place (LDoCE): St. Louis is the ~ to the west] to Northwest China, and is an important communication port {communications port??????????????????}thus holds a very important position in the country’s system of communications. {??is thus one of the country’s hub of communications} {?????} Xi’an Railway Station is the largest passenger terminal in the Northwest. Its newly completed terminal building has a floorage {??floor space} of 16,000 m² and may accommodate over 7,000 out-goingbound passengers. West Xi’an West Station, one of China’s a top-class first-class cargo freight terminals, and East Xi’an East Station are two key major marshaling yards in of the country.

       Highways spreading outwards in all directions link the city with {Cf. to link up: to connect with sth or to make a connection between things, esp so that they can work together: The train links up with the ferry at Dover. //  All these PCs are linked up to the network. (LDoCE)]} the other parts of the province and the country {??????????????}. Over forty non-stop {?“??”???} scheduled flights connect the city Xi’an with other major cities {????????other major cities????????other major big and middle-sized cities?????????????????middle-sized city?} of the country China. {?????}

       Xi’an, known in ancient times as Chang’an, was one of the seven major most famous capitals in ancient China and ranks among the four great ancient capitals of in the world. Beginning from Since 1126 B.C., 13 dynasties settled their capitals here in the following 1100 years successively. the city {??????????????????Xi’an??????} has been the capital of thirteen dynasties, including Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, and Tang, for a total period of time of 1,100 years. Since In the Han dynasty (3rd century 206 B.C.-220 3rd century A.D.), Xi’an has been became an significant important city in China’s exchanges with the other countries in the world. It was from Usage: Wrong preposition (use) at this city that the renowned ancient Silk Road started and extended westward. In the Tang dynasty (7-10 centuries), there was more contact between Xi’an and {??Xi’an became more closely associated with} China’s neighbors in to the south and east as well as countries in {????to?in?????????} the Middle East and Europe.

       In the past few years, extensive urban/municipal  construction has been carried out <There has been a drive for large-scale municipal construction> here on the principle that the ancient look of the city be remain/reserve preserved. The chessboard thoroughfares Semantics: Pragmatic Meaning (PM) misunderstood, mistranslated, or inaccurately translated main streets and avenues, which are laid out in a uniformly crisscross pattern, {???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????“????”??????crisscross??BNC???????“????”?????????“???????”???Perdita, however, was excitedly looking down on vast faded pink rivers curling through spinach-green forest, and the blue shadow of their plane lying across Buenos Aires. Now she could see red houses, swimming-pools, race tracks, skyscrapers sticking up like teeth, and roads and railways so uniformly crisscross they seemed like tiles on a vast kitchen floor.} are lined with trees of exuberant foliage. Ancient and modern buildings set off each other’s beauty. With complete public facilities, the city boasts [if a place, object, or organization boasts a good feature, it has that feature: The hotel boasts the finest view in the city.] brisk trade and a flourishing travel service tourist industry. The residents of the city enjoy a rich and colorful spiritual cultural life.