The silk Road got its name in the 19th century when a German geographer identified it as the route through which the Romans got their silk from China.

世纪，有一位德国地理学家确认罗马人就是通过这一路线把中国的丝绸运到家的，从此有了丝绸之路的名字。

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People also gave him things from different countries, such as a silk fan from China, a little model car from Germany and a small model ship from Australia.

人们还送给他一些来自不同国家的东西，比如一把中国的丝绸扇子，一个德国的小汽车模型和一个澳大利亚的小轮船模型。

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The silk used in these garments is mostly produced in the industrialised cities of southern and western India, or imported from China.

这些服饰所使用的丝绸大部分来自印度南部和西部工业化的城市，或者从中国进口。

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Columnar in shape, falling from the shoulders to the ground, with sometimes a silk cord at the waist or under the bust, it is made from China silk that has been hand-worked into thousands of vertical pleats a process invented by Fortuny, and one that invests the silk with both iridescence and a springy eternal life.

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Mr Thubron spent eight months travelling the 11, 300 kilometres (7, 000 miles) of the old Silk Road from Xian in the heart of China to Antioch (Antakya) in Turkey and, although he scrupulously admits in a note that his trip was broken by fighting in northern Afghanistan and that he was obliged to continue the following year, this interruption does not disrupt the flow of his narrative.

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