描述上海近代建筑的英語作文：The features of a city are its buildings. As a factor most reflecting the times, society and nation,the buildings give overall and integrated expression to the national tradition, regional features spirit of the times and the social value. When you walk along the financial street of the Bund and the commercial street of East Nanjing Road and among the villas and gardens of Xujiahui, you can feel the history of prosperity of Shanghai. In the past 150 years since its opening in 1843, Shanghai has gradually developed into an international metropolis as well as an important economic, trade financial and cul-tural center of China. The special development op-portunities have made the western culture, local Shanghai culture and regional cultures of China collide, co-exist and become integrated and thus make Shanghai integrate the essence of the Chinese and Foreign cultures. In this way, Shanghai has become the place of origin for the modern Chinese con-struction culture and has a unique history of con-struction culture. The modern buildings of Shanghai are rich in styles, almost covering those of almost all the periods of the world construction history. It can be said that they constitute a living world construction history. You can see the new classicism buildings, Gothic building and compromise buildings, to the modernism buildings popular in Europe and America, decoration and art buildings and the new classicism Chinese buildings. The number of the styles, the complexity of the types and the grand scale of those builds are beyond match in this world. They give a comprehensive reflection of the evolution of the modern society and cities and also provide a key to learn the culture of Shanghai and the history of modern China. 中文翻譯：漫步街頭,尋找城市的足跡,最顯而易見的是城市的建筑.建筑是文化領(lǐng)域中最具有時(shí)代性、社會(huì)性和民族性的因素,整體而又集中地體現(xiàn)了民族傳統(tǒng)、地域特性、時(shí)代精神和社會(huì)的價(jià)值取向.徜徉外灘金融街.南京東路商業(yè)街、徐匯區(qū)的花園別墅群間,看到的是上海興盛的歷史.自1843年開埠以后,上海在150年中,逐漸發(fā)展成為一個(gè)國際化的大都市,成為中國重要的經(jīng)濟(jì)中心、貿(mào)易中心、金融中心和文化中心.特殊的發(fā)展際遇,使西方文化、上海本地文化和中國不同地域文化在此相互間沖撞、并存,融合,糅合了古今中外文化的精粹,令上海成為中國現(xiàn)代建筑文化的策源地,擁有獨(dú)特的建筑文化歷史. 上海的近代建筑有著十分豐富的內(nèi)涵,在近百年的建筑中,幾乎囊括了世界建筑各個(gè)時(shí)期的各種風(fēng)格,簡直就是一部活生生的世界建筑史.從新古典主義,哥特復(fù)興式、折衷主義到盛行歐美的現(xiàn)代主義建筑、裝飾藝術(shù)派建筑.復(fù)興中國傳統(tǒng)建筑藝術(shù)的中國新古典建筑等,各種風(fēng)格數(shù)量之多、種類之繁雜、規(guī)模之宏大在世界上也是罕見的.它綜合反映了近代社會(huì)和城市演變的歷程,是解讀上海文化、研究近代中國的一把鑰匙.