美国学生世界地理教材 第146期:铁幕国家(2)

Fairy-tales and poems and music have been written about the Danube too. 也有童话故事、诗歌和音乐描写多瑙河， One of the most famous waltzes ever written is called The Blue Danube. 迄今为止最有名的华尔兹舞曲之一就是蓝

美国学生世界地理教材 第138期:极昼之地(3)

Both Oslo and Stockholm are on the water, but they are not touched by the Gulf Stream, 奥斯陆和斯德哥尔摩都是海滨城市，但是湾流不经过这两座城市， so the water in their harbors is frozen over nearly all winter and ships ca

美国学生世界地理教材 第139期:极昼之地(4)

Long years ago the men of Scandinavia were fierce fighters, who drank a strong liquor called mead and used the skulls of their enemies for cups. 很久以前，斯堪的纳维亚人是非常残暴的好斗者，他们喝一种叫蜂蜜酒的烈性酒，

美国学生世界地理教材 第143期:装面包的篮子—粮仓(1)

IN the north of Russia the ground is white with snow. 俄罗斯北部，土地白雪皑皑。 In the south of Russia the ground is blackalmost as black as coalbecause the soil is so rich, probably the richest in the World. 俄罗斯南部，土地是黑

美国学生世界地理教材 第145期:铁幕国家(1)

There are thousands of cities and towns in the World that neither you nor I have ever heard of, yet millions of people call these cities and towns home. 世界上有成千上万座城镇你我都没有听说过，但有千百万的人称它们为家乡

美国学生世界地理教材 第147期:铁幕国家(3)

Bulgaria is an Iron Curtain country next to the Black Sea. 保加利亚是黑海边的一个国家， It has forests and mountains as well as farm land. 它有很多森林、山脉和农田。 In the forests live bears, wild-cats, and wild boars. 森林

美国学生世界地理教材 第149期:众神之国(2)

They believed that there was a god of love and that there was a god of war and that there was a god of almost everything in the World. 希腊人相信有掌管爱情的神，有主管战争的神，还有主宰世界万物的神。 Greece is in two c

美国学生世界地理教材 第150期:众神之国(3)

Some one has said the reason the Greeks long ago made such beautiful statues and buildings was because they had such beautiful marble to work with; 有人曾说，希腊人很久以前就能创造出如此美丽的雕像和建筑物是因为有如此美

美国学生世界地理教材 第151期:众神之国(4)

Long before the time of Christ, athletic meets used to be held in Greece once every four years. 在耶稣诞生前很久，希腊每四年举行一次体育大会， These were called Olympic Games, and champions in running and jumping and other spor

美国学生世界地理教材 第152期:新月之国(1)

EVERY place is east of some other place. 每一个地方都在另一个地方的东边。 America is east of China. Europe is east of America. 美国在中国的东边，欧洲在美国的东边。 But the only place called THE East, with a capital T

美国学生世界地理教材 第144期:装面包的篮子—粮仓(2)

At the city of Baku on the side of the Caspian Sea there are so many oil-wells and so much oil that it seems to get into everything. 在里海边的巴库城有很多很多油田，出产大量的石油，似乎什么东西都沾上了石油。 You s

美国学生世界地理教材 第123期:一英里高的一堆灰(1)

Lesson 37 第37章 A Pile of Ashes a Mile High 一英里高的一堆灰 A PILE of ashes is not usually very beautiful, and if it is in your back yard it is usually very ugly. 一堆灰，通常是不美的。如果它在你家后院里，通常会觉得

美国学生世界地理教材 第124期:一英里高的一堆灰(2)

The rock that the volcano melts flows over the top like a pot boiling over and runs down the sides in streams that gradually harden into rock as they cool off. 那些被熔化了的岩石，就像因沸腾而溢出水壶的开水，小溪般从山顶四

美国学生世界地理教材 第125期:一英里高的一堆灰(3)

No one knows when Vesuvius may do the same thing again, but the people in Naples never seem to think of such a thing; 没有人知道维苏威火山会在哪一天再次制造这样的悲剧，但是那不勒斯人似乎从不考虑这件事， they

美国学生世界地理教材 第131期:鱼儿峡湾瀑布和森林(2)

The Norwegian people catch herring in nets, then they salt, smoke, or dry them to make sure they will keep almost forever without spoiling. 挪威人用网打捞鲱鱼，然后，用盐腌制、用烟熏制、或晒干风干，用各种方法保存鲱鱼

美国学生世界地理教材 第132期:鱼儿峡湾瀑布和森林(3)

In the warm water of the fiords the herring schools have a fine recess until a whale or a fisherman comes along. 峡湾温暖的水域就成了大群鲱鱼的安乐窝，直到鲸或渔民的到来。 The northest city in the World is in Norway and t

美国学生世界地理教材 第133期:鱼儿、峡湾、瀑布和森林续(1)

THE fishiest city in the World is in Norway on a fiord. 世界上最有鱼味的城市就在挪威的一个峡湾里， The city and the fiord are both called Bergen. 这个城市和这个峡湾都叫卑尔根。 The fishermen from the Lofoden Is-lan

美国学生世界地理教材 第134期:鱼儿、峡湾、瀑布和森林续(2)

Leif Ericson lived about a thousand years ago. 莱弗.埃里克松生活在一千年前， He and his men sailed across the ocean and landed in America five hundred years before Columbus discovered America, 他和他手下的人早在哥伦布发现美

美国学生世界地理教材 第135期:鱼儿、峡湾、瀑布和森林续(3)

On the tops of the mountains there are vast fields of snow and ice like frosting on a huge cake, 山顶有大片大片雪和冰，就像一块巨大的蛋糕上撒满了糖霜。 but as this snow and ice sinks down to the valleys it melts and the wat

美国学生世界地理教材 第136期:极昼之地(1)

IN Through the Looking-Glass the story of The Walrus and the Carpenter starts this way: 在《镜中奇缘》这部童话小说里，海象与木匠故事的开头是这样的： The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: And this wa