美国学生世界地理教材 第10期:世界是圆的 我围着它绕了一圈(2)

If a man could start out when the sun rose in the morning and keep up with it all day long, 如果一个人能在早晨太阳升起的时候出发，一整天都跟着太阳走， go over the side of the world when the sun set and keep up with it on

美国学生世界地理教材 第9期:世界是圆的 我围着它绕了一圈(1)

Chapter 2 The World Is Round, for I've Been Round It 第2章 世界是圆的，我围着它绕了一圈 Did you ever run away from home? 你曾离家出走过吗？我有过，有一次在我比你还小的时候。 I didonce upon a timewhen I was yo

美国学生世界地理教材 第8期:透过小望远镜看到的世界(4)

The part of the World that isn't patches of shadow or snow is water. 环绕着大陆的水叫做海洋， The water all around the continents is the ocean, and though of course there are no walls nor fences dividing it into different parts, 尽管并没

美国学生世界地理教材 第6期:透过小望远镜看到的世界(2)

When some inquisitive child asked, What does the flat World like a mud pie rest on? 当某个好奇的孩子问道：这个平平的像泥馅饼的世界是放在什么上面的呢? they really truly said, It rests on the backs of four elephants. 他们

美国学生世界地理教材 第148期:众神之国(1)

THE first book I ever read was Aesop's Fables. 我读过的最早一本书是《伊索寓言》。 Aesop was a slave who lived in a little country called Greece. 伊索曾经是一个奴隶，生活在一个叫希腊的小国。 Aesop the slave wrote

美国学生世界地理教材 第4期:前言(4)

In the little town where I was born, there lived an old, old man 在我出生的小镇上，住着一位很老的老人， whose chief claim to distinction was the fact that he had never in his whole life been ten miles away from home. 他在镇上很有

美国学生世界地理教材 第3期:前言(3)

Casually I asked if any one could tell me why it was called the Bridge of Sighs. 我随口问了一句：有谁知道它为什么叫叹息桥吗？ One boy said, Because it is of big size A little girl scorning his ignorance, said, Because it has sid

美国学生世界地理教材 第2期:前言(2)

The World was an orange when I went to school, 我上学的时候，世界对我来说就像一个橙子， and there were only three things I can remember that I ever learned for sure that the Dutch children wore wooden shoes, 我记得只有三个细

美国学生世界地理教材 第1期:前言(1)

This book is for the child who: thinks heaven is in the sky and hell is under the ground; 这本书是写给这样的孩子：他认为天堂在天上，地狱在地下； has never heard of London or Paris and thinks a Dane is a kind of dog. 他从未

美国学生世界地理教材 第15期:世界的内部(3)

So we know that the distance must be about eight thousand miles, as twenty-five is a little more than three times eight. 那么我们就知道从世界一面到另一面的距离肯定是大约8000英里，因为25是8的三倍多一点。 That is no

美国学生世界地理教材 第5期:透过小望远镜看到的世界(1)

Chapter 1 The World Through a Spy-Glass 第1章 透过小望远镜看到的世界 You may never have seen your own face. 你从来都没看过你自己的脸。 This may surprise you and you may say it isn't so but it is so. 这样说可能让你惊讶

美国学生世界地理教材 第14期:世界的内部(2)

Could you dig down as deep as the Washington Monument goes up? 你能在地下挖出华盛顿纪念碑那么高的深度吗？ I thought perhaps I could, but I was a little doubtful for the Washington Monument seemed terribly high. 我想也许我能，

美国学生世界地理教材 第7期:透过小望远镜看到的世界(3)

These patches which look like shadows are really land and are called by a long name: continents. 这些看起来像阴影的斑块实际上是土地，它们有个很深奥的名字：大陆。 These continents have names, and if their names were pri

美国学生世界地理教材 第13期:世界的内部(1)

Chapter 3 The Inside of the World 第3章 世界的内部 When I was a very little boy I was very inquisitive. 小时候就是个非常好奇的孩子， At least that's what my nurse called me. 至少我的保姆是这样说的。 One day when I was