时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国学生人类历史


英语课

   Chapter 06


  第六章
  The Story of Egypt
  埃及的故事
  The rise and fall of Egypt
  埃及的盛衰
  The river Nile was a kind friend but occasionally it was a hard taskmaster.
  尼罗河是人类的好友,可有时候,它又像一位严厉的监工。
  It taught the people who lived along its banks the noble art of "team-work."
  它教会了生活在两岸的人们"协作劳动"的艺术。
  They depended upon each other to build their irrigation trenches 1 and keep their dikes in repair.
  他们依赖彼此合作的力量,一起建造灌溉沟渠,修筑防洪堤坝。
  In this way they learned how to get along with their neighbours and their mutual-benefit-association quite easily developed into an organised state.
  这样一来,他们也学会了如何与自己的邻人和睦相处。这种互利互惠的联系很容易发展成了一个有组织的国家。
  Then one man grew more powerful than most of his neighbours
  后来,有一个精明强干的人,他的权力和威望逐渐膨胀,超过了所有的邻居们。
  and he became the leader of the community and their commander-in-chief when the envious 2 neighbours of western Asia invaded the prosperous valley.
  这个人不但顺理成章的成为了社区的领袖,而且当嫉妒的西亚邻居入侵这个富饶河谷时,他还担当了抵御外敌的军事首脑。
  In due course of time he became their King and ruled all the land from the Mediterranean 3 to the mountains of the west.
  到后来,他终于变成了人们的国王,统治着从地中海沿岸到西部山脉的广袤土地。
  But these political adventures of the old Pharaohs (the word meant "the Man who lived in the Big House") rarely interested the patient and toiling 4 peasant of the grain fields.
  不过,古埃及法老(法老一词意为"住在大宫殿里的贵人")的种种政治冒险事业,很少让那些勤苦耐劳的农夫们感兴趣。
  Provided he was not obliged to pay more taxes to his King than he thought just,
  只要不被强征超过合理限度的赋税,只要不加重过分繁重的劳役,
  he accepted the rule of Pharaoh as he accepted the rule of Mighty 5 Osiris.
  他们就愿意像敬爱大神奥赛西斯一样,接受法老们的统治。
  It was different however when a foreign invader 6 came and robbed him of his possessions.
  可一旦某个外族入侵者闯入,剥夺掉他们的所有,情况便会变得很悲惨。
  After twenty centuries of independent life, a savage 7 Arab tribe of shepherds, called the Hyksos, attacked Egypt
  经过2000年的独立之后,一个名为希克索斯的野蛮的阿拉伯游牧部落闯入了埃及,
  and for five hundred years they were the masters of the valley of the Nile.
  统治了尼罗河河谷达500年之久。

深沟,地沟( trench的名词复数 ); 战壕
  • life in the trenches 第一次世界大战期间的战壕生活
  • The troops stormed the enemy's trenches and fanned out across the fields. 部队猛攻敌人的战壕,并在田野上呈扇形散开。
adj.嫉妒的,羡慕的
  • I don't think I'm envious of your success.我想我并不嫉妒你的成功。
  • She is envious of Jane's good looks and covetous of her car.她既忌妒简的美貌又垂涎她的汽车。
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。
长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的现在分词 ); 艰难缓慢地移动,跋涉
  • The fiery orator contrasted the idle rich with the toiling working classes. 这位激昂的演说家把无所事事的富人同终日辛劳的工人阶级进行了对比。
  • She felt like a beetle toiling in the dust. She was filled with repulsion. 她觉得自己像只甲虫在地里挣扎,心中涌满愤恨。
adj.强有力的;巨大的
  • A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
  • The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。
n.侵略者,侵犯者,入侵者
  • They suffered a lot under the invader's heel.在侵略者的铁蹄下,他们受尽了奴役。
  • A country must have the will to repel any invader.一个国家得有决心击退任何入侵者。
adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人
  • The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打。
  • He has a savage temper.他脾气粗暴。
标签: 美国学生 历史
学英语单词
.ani
abandoned infant
ageable
aggregate national income
asclepias curassavicas
back-fired
bad policies
BD-CELLULOSE
be a piece of cake
bevis
blow run
booby prize
booty call
Bourbourg
brevipen
captain deck
caput articular
carrier vehicle
ceratobranchial segment
Chanco
chiu tzu y?eh
cocto-immunogen
cold pressed juice
commissive mood
coxarthritis
deucing
digital reflection hologram
digital telemeter receiver
directoral
draw a check
everlastingnesses
exercise price
fall witchgrass
fetch around
field slave
fine spray metal transfer
Firuzeh
flow control bypass valve
indirogar
internal damping losses
klystron oscillator
Knole
leaf of negundo chastetree
leaky Rayleigh wave
left module
liquid level control
liquid liabilities
Longhurst Plateau
Michaelis-Gutmann bodies
multitown
muscular receptor apparatus
N-cholylglycine
nappiness
neocolonialization
oil of winter-green
one person
one-way trade
Osterstedt
over-generalisations
pigment minerals
plain squirrel cage motor
prewired option
primary permeability
principal tangent
propagation of light
prussics
raceway for wiring
radio-transmitting set
rapid depreciation procedures
regular screw thread
root registry
root-hair region
rubberstamp
run-resistant
satellite-tosatellite tracking
saw tooth hob
Shahejie Formation
shahstah
shirron
short title catalog
sleake
Snoqualmie Falls
splenoblast
steriliser
stick something up your ass
sturtevant excavating and bagging machine
teleonymph
tetravalelent
thanedom
Thioton
Threskiornis aethiopica
tracking lidar
transition signal
traversing speed
type checking rule
unbalanced ring
unflamboyant
unreservedly
vertical-disk-type butterfly valve
vinylog effect
violent film
weld rate