英语翻译

英语翻译
The Chinese first made paper about 2,000 years ago.China still has pieces of paper which were made as long ago as that.But Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees.It was made from the hairlike parts of certain plants.
Paper was not made in Southern Europe until about the year 1100.Scandinavia (斯堪的纳维亚),which now makes a great deal of the world’s paper,did not begin to make it until 1500.it was a German named Sehaeffer who found out that one could make the best paper from trees.After that,the forest countries of Canada,Sweden,Norway,Finland and the US became the most important in paper-making.Today in Finland,which makes the best paper in the world,the paper industry is the biggest in the land.New paper-making machines can make a piece of paper 300 metres long and six metres wide in one minute.