英语听力：自然百科 圣河之旅 The Ganges 恒河—24
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：自然百科2015年
英语课
-We're just coming into the city of Varanasi. It's one of the oldest continued things inhabit 1 its citizens in the world. It's a place that's said to be as old as Babylon.The same religious rituals 2 have been practiced in the temples here for more than a thousand years and remaind virtually unchanged. At dawn each morning, people come to worship the river and bathe in the sacred waters. The American writer, Mark Twain, who came here in the 1890s, wrote that the city is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend. Varanasi has been a place of faith for 30 centuries.
-It's absolutely stunning 3. It's one of the most amazing places I've ever been to.
Along the banks of the river, a dozens of g* or flights of stone stairs leading up to temples, palaces and guest houses.
vt.居住于，（动物）栖居于
- Thoughts inhabit his mind.各种思想占据了他的心灵。
- Wild tribes still inhabit part of the Philippines.菲律宾部分地区仍然居住着一些原始部落。
（宗教等的）仪式( ritual的名词复数 )； 例行公事，老规矩
- A cognac before bed is one of our little nightly rituals. 临睡之前喝点儿干邑是我们每天晚上的小习惯之一。
- Many of the tribe's customs and rituals are as old as the hills. 这部落的许多风俗、仪式都极其古老。