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苏州

翻译原文：

苏州是一个具有悠久丝绸文化历史的城市。它有栽桑、养蚕、缫丝和织造的传统。苏州的丝绸是皇家贡品，早在唐宋时期就在世界范围内享有盛名。苏州市有自然优势，日照充足，雨量充沛，土壤肥沃，这些给蚕茧的高产和丝的高质量提供了合适的环境。它一直是中国丝绸原料的主要产地和集散中心。

参考译文：

Suzhou is a city with a long history of silk culture. It has a tradition of mulberry planting, sericulture, silk reeling and weaving. Suzhou’s silk was an imperial tribute and gained a worldwide reputationfrom as early as the Tang and Song dynasties. Suzhou city also abounds in natural gifts, abundant sunshine, plentiful rainfall and rich soils, which offer a pleasant environment for high yield of cocoons and high qualities of silk. It has been the main producing area and distributing center of raw silk materials in China.四级多少分及格

重点词汇：

丝绸文化：silk culture

栽桑：plant mulberry

蚕：silkworm

养蚕：sericulture / silkworm raising / silkworm rearing

缫丝：silk reeling

织造：weave

皇家贡品：imperial tribute

享有盛名：enjoy a high reputation

蚕茧：silkworm cocoon

主要产地：main producing area

集散中心：distributing center