美国学生世界地理教材 第214期:动物王国(1)

Have you ever been to the zoo or the circus? 你去过动物园或马戏团吗？ How would you like to live in a zoo where the animals were not in cages? 如果有个动物园，动物都不关在笼子里，你愿意住在里面吗？ The land in A

美国学生世界地理教材 第215期:动物王国(2)

Other animals looking for food will come along too and must be scared away from the bait or killed. 其他寻找食物的动物也会出现，见到诱饵一定会被吓跑或被猎杀。 The first animal to come along is usually the hyena. 最先出现

美国学生世界地理教材 第216期:动物王国(3)

Almost every animal makes some kind of sound. It may be his language. 几乎所有的动物都会发出某种声音，那也许就是动物的语言。 He barks, moos, clucks, bleats, mews, whinnies, croaks, roars, grunts, cries, snarls, chirps, scre

美国学生世界地理教材 第217期:动物王国(4)

I have a peculiar stick and I often ask people to guess what it is made of. 我有一根奇特的棍子，我常常让人猜它是什么做的， They usually say horn or hard rubber. for it will bend. 一般都回答是用动物角或硬橡胶做的，

美国学生世界地理教材 第218期:动物王国(5)

Some hunters had a box of safety-pins. 有些猎人随身会带一盒安全别针。 The Blacks begged for the pins, and when they were given to them they pinned them through their noses. 黑人向他们讨要别针，讨到后，就别在自己鼻子上

美国学生世界地理教材 第219期:彩虹的尽头(1)

Gold! It used to be said there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, though no one has ever found it. 金子！过去人们常说在彩虹的尽头有一罐金子。不过从未有人找到过。 Yet men have left their business and their fami

美国学生世界地理教材 第221期:彩虹的尽头(3)

An Englishman named Cecil Rhodes went out to South Africa for his health. 一位名叫塞西尔.罗得斯的英国人，为了健康来到南非； He happened to be there when diamonds were discovered and fortunes were being made, and he found his h

美国学生世界地理教材 第222期:财富岛(1)

Have you ever been homesick? 你有没有想过家？ If you haven't, then you have never been far away from home for any length of time, or you never had a home. 如果没有，那么你一定没有出过远门，在外待过一段时间；或者你从

美国学生世界地理教材 第225期:财富岛(4)

The natives of Australia are black people called Bushmen. 澳大利亚本土著居民是被称为丛林居民的黑人， They can't count even up to ten nor write their names nor read a single word. 他们不识数，数数甚至数不到十，也不会

美国学生世界地理教材 第220期:彩虹的尽头(2)

Now, however, many of the diamonds are cut in Kimberley and are all finished there before being shipped to other countries. 然而，现在多数钻石是在金伯利切割，并在那里加工完毕之后就被船送到其他国家。 Diamonds are m

美国学生世界地理教材 第171期:伊甸园(3)

Though Nineveh and Babylon are gonetheir names are not even on the mapthere are today two big cities on the Tigris that are very much alive, with people living in them. 尽管尼尼微和巴比伦已经不存在了连它们的名字在地图上也找不

美国学生世界地理教材 第169期:伊甸园(1)

Of course, you have heard of the Garden of Eden, haven't you? 你肯定听说过伊甸园，对不对？ When-I-was-a-boy I thought that when I was old enough to travel I should like to go and see it for myself. 小时候，我就想，长大了，能去

美国学生世界地理教材 第160期:昔日辉煌的小亚细亚(3)

Asia Minor now belongs to Turkeyin fact, it is about all there is left of Turkey except Istanbul, 现在，小亚细亚地区属于土耳其事实上，除了伊斯坦布尔，土耳其国土差不多就是以前的小亚细亚。 although before Wor

美国学生世界地理教材 第154期:新月之国(3)

The Turks also built, close to each mosque, one or more candle-shaped towers, called minarets. 土耳其人还在每座清真寺旁建造至少一座形似蜡烛的塔楼，叫做宣礼塔。 About midway of a minaret is a balcony, and five times a d

美国学生世界地理教材 第155期:新月之国(4)

An inlet from the Bosporus cuts into Istanbul in the shape of a horn. 有一个牛角形状的小水湾，从博斯普鲁斯海切入到伊斯坦布尔， It is called the Golden Horn, and across the entrance a great chain used to be stretched to kee

美国学生世界地理教材 第156期:沙漠之舟(1)

There are a few camels in Istanbul, but camels don't belong in Europe. 伊斯坦布尔有一些骆驼，但欧洲不产骆驼。 They have to be carried across the Bosporus from Asia, for a camel is said to be the only animal that cannot swim and can

美国学生世界地理教材 第157期:沙漠之舟(2)

The camel follows the leader, almost as in the game, 骆驼具有模仿领头人的习性， for wherever the leader goes he goesso when a number of camels are used to carry loads long distances they are tied head to tail in a line, 差不多就像我们

美国学生世界地理教材 第158期:昔日辉煌的小亚细亚(1)

We call a small boy a minor until he grows up. 在一个小男孩长大成人之前，我们都称之为小。 The corner of Asia on the other side of the Bosporus is only a small part of Asia, so we call it Asia Minor. 在博斯普鲁斯海峡的另一

美国学生世界地理教材 第159期:昔日辉煌的小亚细亚(2)

The Temple built to the Goddess Diana was one of these wonders. 为女神狄安娜建造的神庙就是这七大奇观之一。 This Temple was at Ephesus in Asia Minor, and silversmiths made little copies of this wonderful temple to sell as souvenir

美国学生世界地理教材 第161期:丰饶之国(1)

In Sunday school I used to hear of Bethlehem and Jerusalem and other places in the Bible, 我小时候在主日学校常听到伯利恒、耶路撒冷以及其他一些在《圣经》里出现的地名。 but I had no idea then that there were any su