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


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 “The eye of all the world”, the ancients called it, the heart of a lost empire that had lasted for a thousand years and more.


 
Saint Sophia, the church of the divine wisdom, this was their crowning glory---the glory of Byzantium.
 
The vanished empire of Byzantium born of pagan Rome.
 
Byzantium, the dream of a Christian 1 Roman empire that stretched from Spain to Syria.
 
Byzantium, whose influence ran from Northern Russia down to Nubia upon the upper Nile.
 
Byzantium, gateway 2 to a lost chapter of our past.
 
The Orient Express, I first traveled this line in the 60s.  I bought a ticket at Waterloo station in London for a ride to Istanbul in Turkey in a life-long fascination 3.
 
It took three days to get there with hell on wheels really, goats in the corridor and communism out of the window.
 
Then all of a sudden the trains run around a bend and bang, the orient hit me in the face, the great golden city by the sea set between the east and west, you could see it had been the center of the world.  It was astonishing.
 
I come to Istanbul, and underneath 4, the magic ruins of the lost empire of Byzantium.
 
The Orient Express stopped here in the heart of the old city. I got off it in clouds of smoke and steam, haunted by the ghost of Greta Garbo and Agatha Christie by a thousand spies and archaeologists, by the kings and courtesans, the prewar Europe.

adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
n.大门口,出入口,途径,方法
  • Hard work is the gateway to success.努力工作是通往成功之路。
  • A man collected tolls at the gateway.一个人在大门口收通行费。
n.令人着迷的事物,魅力,迷恋
  • He had a deep fascination with all forms of transport.他对所有的运输工具都很着迷。
  • His letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience.广大观众一直迷恋于他的来信。
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。
学英语单词
accompanying sound
aislabies
aniston
annoyaunce
arcus pedis transversalis
artillery prime mover
atigi
auxochromous group
axillary sheath
Bannertown
Borate minerals
buttfucking
caseros
cemetery garden
civilianising
colonnas
come on strike
consulting work
cowcumber
debriefed
decision speed
declination constant
diamond-impregnated tool
Dipher
distributable surplus
distributed-emission photod
dotted quaver
egg-and-tongues
enamel lamp-shade
enterococcus faecalis
European Arum
evaporator tank
everlastin'
exception list
excessive issuance of bank notes
fenprinast
fillet welding machine
flavicomous
Floyd Bennett Field
fractional (deposit) banking
Fulsed
genus clinopodiums
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
groove-iike invagination
Habibābād
hammer throws
have young
Hevea brasiliensis Muell.-Arg.
hostiers
Hung's modified filtration counting method
inclined wharf
inertial lag
Intel Technology Provider
kentwood
Kerr effect self-focusing
Khetlāl
kinmonds
lambruscoes
lani
le massacre des amazones
legspinners
memabtine
monosomatous
most significant position
multi start screw thread
neat not gaudy
nephelo-
nondeserving
nonlobbying
nonsingular curve
notra
paytamine
pittosporum brevicalyx(oliv.)gagnep.
pooper-scoopers
pound-keepers
pseudocontrol vector
quick-acting spring switch
red infarct
rejectable process level
revenue accounts
rhabdornises
rilutek
ripply
roentgenograph
Rufus L.
sex-age specific death rate
slow belly
snowy tree-cricket
sorned
spoligotyping
standby emergency mode
Swift's disease
TATG
ten-year series
Thomas Moore
traffic accident prediction
unit separator
universal structural mill
vehicle leasing
verbalisable
wakeys-wakeys
whipped through