The Rise 罗马崛起 - 04
When the Mediterranean 1 sailors of ancient Greece and Egypt looked west toward Italy, they stared into a great unknown. It was 800 years before the birth of Christ and Rome still didn't exist but stories were told of mysterious peoples with strange, exotic customs and untold 2 riches. The tales were irresistible 3.
Setting off from the great civilized 4 cities of the East, like Athens and Tyre, adventurous 5 Greek traders sailed west into uncharted seas.
Navigating 6 by the stars without instruments, they began to explore a remote and little known peninsula of the Western Mediterranean. They called it Hesperia, the land of the evening sun.
On the 8th century BC, time of westward 7 expansion, Phoenicians going west, Greeks going west founding colonies, when the Greeks sailed into Italy, they found something they didn't expect, an advanced civilization already there.
Here in the hills of Tuscany, there were already walled cities. There were kings and high priests. There were skillful craftsmen 8 who created a tender and sensuous 9 art like no other in the Mediterranean. And there were traders ready to barter 10 the finest gold and iron work the ancient world had ever seen.
Before Rome, there were the Etruscans. They taught the Romans everything but left no written records.
Incredible. The Etruscans were some of the most amazing artisans that the West has ever seen. They worked in metal for sculpture. They worked in terracotta and life-size statues with these amazing, inviting 11 expressions, very warm, they are not cold and distant. But they are ... they are people that you want to meet.
The Etruscans lived in the fertile hills of Tuscany, but their real wealth lay underground. The richest deposits of iron ore, copper 12 and tin in the central Mediterranean.
As early as 700 BC, they created shafts, tunnels, subterranean 14 galleries. Smelters and slag-heap so vast that 2. 5 thousand years later, Mussolini reprocessed them to produce weapons for World War II. The Etruscans traded their metal work as far afield as Syria, Portugal and even Sweden.
- 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。
- She has done untold damage to our chances.她给我们的机遇造成了不可估量的损害。
- They suffered untold terrors in the dark and huddled together for comfort.他们遭受着黑暗中的难以言传的种种恐怖，因而只好挤在一堆互相壮胆。
- The wheel of history rolls forward with an irresistible force.历史车轮滚滚向前，势不可挡。
- She saw an irresistible skirt in the store window.她看见商店的橱窗里有一条叫人着迷的裙子。
- Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
- rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为
- I was filled with envy at their adventurous lifestyle.我很羨慕他们敢于冒险的生活方式。
- He was predestined to lead an adventurous life.他注定要过冒险的生活。
- These can also be very useful when navigating time-based documents, such as video and audio. 它对于和时间有关的文档非常有用，比如视频和音频文档。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
- Vehicles slowed to a crawl on city roads, navigating slushy snow. 汽车在市区路上行驶缓慢，穿越泥泞的雪地。 来自互联网
- We live on the westward slope of the hill.我们住在这座山的西山坡。
- Explore westward or wherever.向西或到什么别的地方去勘探。
- rugs handmade by local craftsmen 由当地工艺师手工制作的小地毯
- The craftsmen have ensured faithful reproduction of the original painting. 工匠保证要复制一幅最接近原作的画。
- Don't get the idea that value of music is commensurate with its sensuous appeal.不要以为音乐的价值与其美的感染力相等。
- The flowers that wreathed his parlor stifled him with their sensuous perfume.包围著客厅的花以其刺激人的香味使他窒息。
- Chickens,goats and rabbits were offered for barter at the bazaar.在集市上，鸡、山羊和兔子被摆出来作物物交换之用。
- They have arranged food imports on a barter basis.他们以易货贸易的方式安排食品进口。
- An inviting smell of coffee wafted into the room.一股诱人的咖啡香味飘进了房间。
- The kitchen smelled warm and inviting and blessedly familiar.这间厨房的味道温暖诱人，使人感到亲切温馨。
- The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
- Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。
- He deliberately jerked the shafts to rock him a bit. 他故意的上下颠动车把，摇这个老猴子几下。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
- Shafts were sunk, with tunnels dug laterally. 竖井已经打下，并且挖有横向矿道。 来自辞典例句
- London has 9 miles of such subterranean passages.伦敦像这样的地下通道有9英里长。
- We wandered through subterranean passages.我们漫游地下通道。