时间:2019-03-01 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力:文化博览2008年


英语课

 In Cairo, a muezzin calls faithful Muslims to prayer. It’s the same call that sounds five times a day every day in cities across the world. Nearly a quarter of the people on earth respond to it, bound together by the enduring spirit of Islam. 


 
''God is most great''. The muezzin calls. ''I testify that there is no other god but God. I testify Muhammad is the messenger of God. Come and pray, come and flourish. God is most great. There is no god but God.'' 
 
In the unfolding of history, Islamic civilization has been one of humanity’s grandest achievements, a worldwide power founded simply on faith, a spiritual revolution that would shape the nations of three continents, and launch an empire. For the west, much of the history of Islam has been obscured behind a veil of fear and misunderstanding. Yet Islam's hidden history is deeply and surprisingly interwoven with western civilization. It was Muslim scholars who reclaimed 1 the ancient wisdom of the Greeks while Europe languished 2 in the dark ages. It was they who sowed the seeds of the Renaissance 3, six hundred years before the birth of Leonardo da Vinci. From the way we heal the sick to the numerals we use for counting, cultures across the globe have been shaped by Islamic civilization. But all this began with the life of a single ordinary man and the profound message he proclaimed which change the world forever. His name was Muhammad. 

adj.再生的;翻造的;收复的;回收的v.开拓( reclaim的过去式和过去分词 );要求收回;从废料中回收(有用的材料);挽救
  • Many sufferers have been reclaimed from a dependence on alcohol. 许多嗜酒成癖的受害者已经被挽救过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They reclaimed him from his evil ways. 他们把他从邪恶中挽救出来。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
长期受苦( languish的过去式和过去分词 ); 受折磨; 变得(越来越)衰弱; 因渴望而变得憔悴或闷闷不乐
  • Our project languished during the holidays. 我们的计划在假期间推动得松懈了。
  • He languished after his dog died. 他狗死之后,人憔悴了。
n.复活,复兴,文艺复兴
  • The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement.文艺复兴是一个文化上取得空前成就的时代。
  • The theme of the conference is renaissance Europe.大会的主题是文艺复兴时期的欧洲。
学英语单词
accidental membranae
airborne life boat
alatamide
alto stratus
basic console
Batthewmurnarna
be in the field
be under the knife
bisectings
boykin
Buengas
build-in stress
Bush Negro
clausocalanus furcatus
clove pinks
cobalt pellet
conditioning unit
convertor unit protection
crank call
crossopterygian
custom integrated circuit
dirac representation
direct built-in system
drip feeds
dry scall
El Mirage
ethics hotline
explosion pot
factically
finite memory automaton
flokite
front entrances
fungus infection of bone
gaseous permeability
genus corydaluss
great-great-grandson
Grenzers
gwythers
helenium
input output channel
intercloud discharge
IP BP (intermediate pressure by-pass)
Juncus nigroviolaceus
kachha
knuckle-joint knurler
Křelovice
lazyload
Lebyazh'ya
litigation
luctuosus
magnesium metagermanate
mains failure and emergency generator
maleyl
market fluctuation
master oscillator set
microautosampler
monatomic gas
monster-god
mtx
muall
multiple throttle valve
Namanga Viloyat
Nervus musculi tensoris veli palatini
nonatheromatous
nonisochronicity
octagonal
opopaea sauteri
over-urbanization
overregulations
particle drift velocity
Pedomicrobium
Pindarism
plank clod mashers
POB, P.O.B.
Port twenty!
production engineer
proto-neutron stars
protococcus viridis ag.
purees
quickeyed
rancourousness
raptus nervorum
recordal
rotalite
selectest
Selim I
semiconductor junctions
sheter
sinnable
spark number
stouk
supporter
tangential wall
Territorian
the worst of all
through heating
torpedo artificer
trichorrhea
ulrichs
unimolecular base-catalyzed acyloxygen cleavage
Verndale
Voza