Before Christ was born people believed there were many gods who were like good and bad fairies, 在基督诞生之前,人们相信世界上有很多神,这些神有的像善良的仙子,有的像邪恶的精灵, and statues were made of them

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Chapter 29 Parlez-vous Franchise? (continued) 你讲法语吗?(续) There are two French words which I know you know, even if you don speak French. 即使你不会说法语,但我知道有两个法语单词你肯定是认识的。 One is Boul

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When we eat our meals we almost always do so indoors, where we can see no one else and no one else can see us. 我们就餐几乎总在室内,我们看不到别人,别人也看不到我们。 But the French often eat outof- doors, on the sidewalk

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The River Rh?ne flows south into a gulf called the Gulf of Lyons, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea. 罗讷河往南流入一个海湾,叫做里昂湾,它是地中海的一部分。 The chief city on the Gulf of Lyons is Marseilles. 里昂湾

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Chapter 30 The Land Below the Sea 低于海平面的国家 Bells and Battle-fields dont seem to go together, but north of France is a land of Bells and Battle-fields, called Belgium. 钟和战场似乎并不匹配,但是在法国北面有一个与钟

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Another city of Belgium beginning with a B is Bruges. 比利时还有一个以B开头的城市是布鲁日(Bruges)。 Bruges has many streets of water with bridges crossing them, and boats instead of carts, although there are paved streets also. 布

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Chapter 31 Castles in Spain 第31章 西班牙城堡 When I was a boy I used to plan the kind of home I would have when I grew up and had plenty of money. 我小时候常常会想如果长大后我很有钱,我要住什么样子的房子呢? It w

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Gibraltar looks like a nose on the map, but if you were in a boat out on the Mediterranean Sea, Gibraltar would look like a long, high rock. 直布罗陀在地图上看起来像个鼻子,但是当你坐船在地中海行驶的时候,直布罗陀看

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The Christians in Spain didnt like the Moors, so they fought them, and at last the Christians drove the Moors out of Spain, 西班牙的基督徒不喜欢摩尔人,于是和他们交战,最终基督徒把摩尔人赶出了西班牙, drove them

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Chapter 32 Castles in Spain (continued) 西班牙城堡(续) When I was a boy I once climbed over a fence into a field, and before I knew it a bull was dashing toward me. 我小的时候有一次爬过篱笆,跑到一块田里。还没等我反应

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Spanish houses have no front yard nor back yard nor side yard, but an inside yard with the rooms all around it. 西班牙的房屋没有前院、没有后院,也没有侧院,但有个四周都是房间的内院。 This inside yard is called a pat

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Winners of games long ago used to be crowned with a wreath made of olive leaves, 古代,比赛获胜者都给戴上橄榄枝做成的花环, and in time of war, messengers bringing peace used to carry an olive branch. 在战争期间,带来和平

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In Holland they dont have many horses; they use dogs to haul and bicycles to carry. 荷兰没有多少马;他们用狗拖运东西,用自行车搬运东西。 Dogs eat less than horses, they dont have to have stables, and bicycles dont have to ha

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And so back home once more after a trip Around the World in more than 400 pages! 经过四百多页的环球旅行之后,我们终于再次回到了家。 Home, Sweet Home! 家啊,温馨的家! Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be i

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They wouldn't work for a thousand dollars a day, but they would work for a ten-cent string of beads. 即使一天给他们一千美元,他们也不愿意,但是他们却愿意为得到一串廉价的珠子而干活。 They were very fond of jewel

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Inside the shell of the cocoanut is white meat, and inside of that is a kind of milk. 椰子壳里面就是白色的椰肉,在椰肉里面有一种牛奶样的椰汁。 The natives eat the meat of the nut as we would bread, and drink the milk, so t

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Nevertheless, people think this is where the Garden of Eden once was. 虽然如此,人们仍然认为这就是伊甸园曾经所在的地方。 They even point out an old apple-tree that once bore some apples and say, That's the original tree. 他们

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One dark night many years ago an army was approaching Constantinople, 很多年前,一个漆黑的夜晚,一支敌军正在接近君士坦丁堡。 but it was so dark the people in the city did not see it and did not know they were about to be at

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But the world kept getting cooler and cooler until at last the steam turned to water and fell on the worldrain, rain, rain, 但是世界还在持续冷却,直到最后水蒸气变成了水落到地球上那就是雨,雨不停地下, until there

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Someday rocket ships will probably carry men on trips to the Moon or even to the planet Mars. 也许有一天宇宙飞船可以载人飞行到月球上或是火星上。 How would you like to go exploring in a rocket ship beyond the World's atmospher

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