时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力:文化博览2008年


英语课

 This was once a marble square on a highway at the middle of Constantinople. I didn’t suppose the Turks on modern Istanbul think much about ancient Byzantine victories. Yet, there’re still some fragments here of that great memorial column that made it all the way from Marmara, the ghosts of the imperial armies, still lining 1 the routes of their processions through the city.


 
Just as all the ancient roads and sea lanes ran through the empire to Constantinople, so did the rivers of the region. Channeled into great aqueducts, bringing treasured water to a thirsty city. Underneath 2 the town, cut deep into its hilltop, an eerie 3 underworld, some 15 centuries’ old. Fresh water systems, so that the Byzantines could bathe just like the Romans do in marble halls, and every thing made with the dazzling technology of ancient Rome, father of Byzantium. Marble columns, high brick vaults 4, the dark forests of Byzantium, beneath modern Istanbul. Those Greek letters, hammered into the column with a chisel 5 point, the marks of one of Marmara’s quarrymen.
 
Food, too, flooded into the enlarging city. What a vast logistic exercise, and an earthly miracle, supporting Constantinople’s half a million people, Europe’s biggest city, and every thing cause, by hand. There was no food industry. Everything was carried here in boats and carts. The finest fish, the Byzantines believed, were caught beside the emperor’s palace, between the rising of the Pleiades and the settings of a blood red star of Arcturus. Colors, smells and textures 6 of the ancient everyday, the raw ingredients of Byzantine experience, the world of the ancient Mediterranean 7.

n.衬里,衬料
  • The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。
  • Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
adj.怪诞的;奇异的;可怕的;胆怯的
  • It's eerie to walk through a dark wood at night.夜晚在漆黑的森林中行走很是恐怖。
  • I walked down the eerie dark path.我走在那条漆黑恐怖的小路上。
n.拱顶( vault的名词复数 );地下室;撑物跳高;墓穴
  • It was deposited in the vaults of a bank. 它存在一家银行的保险库里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒,他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.凿子;v.用凿子刻,雕,凿
  • This chisel is useful for getting into awkward spaces.这凿子在要伸入到犄角儿里时十分有用。
  • Camille used a hammer and chisel to carve out a figure from the marble.卡米尔用锤子和凿子将大理石雕刻出一个人像。
n.手感( texture的名词复数 );质感;口感;(音乐或文学的)谐和统一感
  • I'm crazy about fabrics textures and colors and designs. 我喜欢各式各样的纺织物--对它的质地,色彩到花纹图案--简直是入了迷。 来自辞典例句
  • Let me clear up the point about the textures. 让我明确了一点有关的纹理。 来自互联网
adj.地中海的;地中海沿岸的
  • The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
  • Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。
学英语单词
A-PD
ab initio modeling
actually semicomputable
adelic
amening
anti-ferroelectricity
average date of input
Basedow's pseudoparaplegia
bf4 counter
birth certificate
board of governors
calendar methods
came into step
cellodion section
ciliary beat
cobblers' dance (russia)
community home
consumptibility
crossing approach
demulsibility tester
die-cast chassis
drainable
El Ramón
en grappes
ergosterine
Euler-Poincare characteristic
exhaust whistle
explicators
exulans
Faraday cages
fauxhawks
floating-point array processor
full-houses
gas-steam combined cycle unit
gasoline officer
gematrically
genus iguanodons
goat's wool
hard-assed
heavy current feedthrough
hemichromis bimaculatus
high frequency furnace
HT magneto
hypoalimentopathy
in-field
indefinite tenancy
intertwine
jamais vu
Ketelmeer
ladder-type
leyne
Lindera
Michelia fujianensis
modificator gene
multiple apoplexy
nefsc
objectee
oil seal with lip facing outward
operation feature of nuclear power plant
optput input
parturient fever
photobooth
pig fish
policemagisttrate
portfire
proton
pubs.
pulse timing circuits
quebrachidine
Radium-224
rowdy-dow
rubrick
saccharum amylaceum
sanitation inspector
see the error of your ways
shaping network,shaping circuit
Sida veronicifolia
star-cloud
strong rubber
submerged-root
sulfuration
supreme constitutional court
takeoff chamber
tear away
telecine camera
teleprinted
tip of the spike
trunk-engine
turf peat
tyre soles process
under coating varnish
under-drive press
unwind-protect
ursus maritimuss
vacates
ventimeglia
vigent
voice acceptance terminal
voltametry
wigner seitz method
World Crafts Council
xuong