And I only knew that I was looking for a palace, and that it lay vaguely somewhere in this north-west corner of the old Tartar City.
我只知道自己在找一个大宅子，大致在皇城的西北角——这个古老的、曾属于鞑子的紫禁城。Once the elderly exercises left, the only sounds on the Forbidden City moat were the scratches of my skates cutting into the ice.
做运动的老太公老太婆一离开后﹐紫禁城护城河上人声俱寂﹐唯一停到的是我冰刀刮冰的声音。The Forbidden City had been equivalent to the White House through Ming and Qing Dynasty but it is no more than a museum nowadays, chill.
紫禁城在清朝和明朝的时候相当于白宫，但现在只是个博物馆了。The last emperor, Pu Yi, quietly took the painting with him when forced to leave the Forbidden City in 1924.
末代皇帝，溥仪悄悄地把画时，他被迫离开紫禁城的1924年。Also known as the Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng), the Imperial Palace (Gugong) complex is an abiding symbol of traditional China.
故宫建筑群也被称为紫禁城，使传统中国的永恒象征。As the switch was turned off, lights at the Forbidden City dimmed, leaving only the bright moon showing off its glory in the sky.
8点30分，随着计时器开关的关闭，紫禁城灯光逐渐变暗，黑夜中，只留下月光独自闪耀。But for the world's greatest wall builders, maker of the forbidden city, what happens tonight is not merely a small step, but a great leap.
然而，对于世界最伟大城墙的建造者，对于紫禁城的缔造者，今天发生的一切将不仅仅只是一小步，更是一个大跳跃。798 is now one of the top sightseeing attractions in Beijing, after the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.
798艺术区已经成为长城和紫禁城之后，北京最著名的景点之一。As this was to be the space representing Heaven on Earth, symbolically it needed to be bigger than the Forbidden City.
在这个空间可以说是人间的天堂，所以象征性的也一定要比紫禁城大些。