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A celebration on Sunday in the West Bank town of Jericho,
星期天在約旦河西岸的耶律哥城有一場慶祝會，

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it is the oldest continually inhabited city on earth and under its streets lay nearly two dozen layers of civilization.
這座城市是地球上持續有人居住的最古老城市，它的街道下埋藏著近二十多層的文明史蹟。

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Paula Hancocks has a look at celebrations and the historic city.
寶拉．漢考克斯要前往該地一探慶祝會和這座歷史悠久的城市。

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Ten thousand years and counting, Jericho celebrates a birthday to remember.
一萬年了，而且還繼續存在，耶律哥正在慶祝一個值得紀念的生日。

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One of the lowest points on earth, skirting the Dead Sea and the Jordanian mountains.
這裡是地球的最低點之一，周圍有死海和約旦群山。

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This tower was discovered by a British archeologist back in the 1950s.
這座塔在一九五○年代被一位英國考古學家發現，

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Now it's believed to date back to around 8,000 B.C., which basically means that it's around 10,000 years old.
據信它的歷史可以追溯到西元前八千年，也就表示它已經存在一萬年之久了。

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But the one problem there is at the moment is trying to preserve it.
但是此刻面臨的問題是該如何想辦法保存它。

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There is stone in there, but also an awful lot of dirt and it's eroding every year.
那裡有石頭，還有大量塵土，而且每年都在風化。

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Excavations here in the ancient city of Jericho have discovered 23 layers of civilization,
在耶律哥古城進行的挖掘工作已經發現二十三層的文明遺跡，

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as well as one of the oldest known stairs in the world, which descend into the heart of the tower.
以及全世界已知最古老的階梯之一，沿著階梯可以往下走到塔的中心點。

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Overlooking Tell es-Sultan, the Mount of Temptations
這座俯瞰蘇丹廢丘的山名為試煉山，

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where Jesus is said to have spent 40 days and nights fasting and meditating, resisting Satan's temptations.
據說耶穌曾經在此度過四十個晝夜，進行齋戒、冥想，以抵抗撒旦的誘惑。

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And in the 6th century, a monastery was built into the mountain's rock face.
西元六世紀時，這座山的岩壁上修建了一座修道院。

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A cable car opened in 1999 reaching the summit of the Mount of Temptation
通往試煉山頂峰的纜車於一九九九年啟用，

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helps attract some one million foreign visitors to Jericho every year, according to the tourism ministry, as well as half a million local tourists. 
根據觀光部的統計，纜車每年吸引約一百萬名的外國觀光客以及五十萬名本地遊客前來此地。

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But this birthday celebration is about attracting even more.
但是這場生日會的目的在於吸引更多人前來。

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Locals enjoyed the festivities, but for a milestone such as 10,000 years, you'd expect a few more tourists,
本地人喜歡這場慶典，但是就達到一萬年這樣的里程碑來看，你會認為觀光客的人數應該更多才對，

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but those we found were happy.
不過我們訪問到的那些人都很開心。

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We can't believe it. This is so far away.
我們不敢相信。這裡實在太遠了。

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We have much in Norway, but that's 1,000 year[s], and we are very proud of that. Here [it] is a 10,000.
我們在挪威有很多歷史古蹟，但是只有一千年，我們已經很感到驕傲了。這裡的卻有一萬年。

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This Jericho resident says, "I am happy and proud that this is the oldest and prettiest city in the world in 2010." 
這位耶律哥居民說：「我很高興也很驕傲，這座城市是二○一○年全球最古老也最美麗的城市。」

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Of course, it's impossible to know exactly when Jericho's 10,000th birthday is,
當然，不可能知道耶律哥城的一萬歲生日究竟是哪一天，

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but this is about pushing the city onto the international map.
但慶生的目的是要讓世人認識這座城市。

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That's one, that we've been around a long time and that we intend to...can do the best we can to stick around
這是其一，我們在這裡很久了，我們想要……我們會盡全力繼續留在這裡，

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until we get to the point where we can live as free people in a country of our own.
一直到我們能夠在屬於自己的國家裡自由自在的生活為止。

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Palestine as [a] destination is a very challenging one in spite of the fact that it hosts this site of universal value.
要到巴勒斯坦來旅遊是件很艱難的事，儘管它是一個具有普世價值的地方。

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So we're using this occasion to draw attention to the fact that it is an existing destination -- still without gateway.
所以我們正好利用這次盛會，讓大家注意到這裡是個現存的旅遊目的地，但仍然缺乏前來此地的管道。

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A destination known as Moon City, Jericho's direct translation in Aramaic.
這個景點的名字叫做「月亮之城」，也就是「耶律哥」在阿拉姆語中直譯的意思。