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Venice, Italy is a magical place. It is one of the few cities in the world where the sound of cars are never heard. Instead, when it is quiet, one hears the lapping of waves against the city s magnificent Renaissance buildings.

意大利的威尼斯是一個神奇的天堂，它是世界上少數幾個城市聽不到汽車聲音的城市之一。取而代之的寧靜，你可以聽到水浪拍打著城市里偉大的文藝復興時期的建筑

Venice is located in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea and is built on islands linked by more than 400 bridges. All transportation is by boat or on foot. Venice s most famous vehicles are gondolas, which drift slowly through the city s famed canals as the men steering the boats serenade passengers with arias from Italian operas.

威尼斯坐落于亞得里亞海的瀉湖之上，由400多座橋梁連接而成。所有的運輸工具都是船或者步行。威尼斯最著名的交通工具就是岡朵拉（Gondola），坐在岡朵拉上面可以一邊看風景一邊聽藝人們演奏的意大利歌劇。

Venice becomes even more enchanting during Carnival. Carnival is an annual celebration before Lent, a 40-day period of fasting that precedes Easter. The dates of Carnival vary each year depending on the date of Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.
狂歡節上的威尼斯尤其迷人。嘉年華每年在四旬齋節前舉行，在復活節前禁食40天.每年的嘉年華定為復活節前的第七個星期三，四旬齋的第一天。