世界小史 第147期:中国

His province was called Ch'in, from which his family took its name, and it is likely that the whole country now known as China was named after him. 他所统治的国家叫秦国，他的家族也这样取名，大概中国整个国家今天还都是按

世界小史 第148期:坚固

Shih Huang-ti built it to protect China's many hardworking and peaceable peasants and townspeople from the wild tribes of the steppes, 秦始皇修建它是为了保护中国众多勤劳、爱好和平的农民和民众，使其免遭草原上野蛮部

世界小史 第149期:富贵还是贫穷

Now they were carefully collected and valued twice as highly as before. 现在人们将它们收集起来并加倍珍惜它们。 And to become a government official, you had to know them all. 想成为一名中国政府官员，你必须熟读这些古

世界小史 第140期:汉尼拔

It took all the money they had, but with their brand new fleet they defeated the Carthaginians, who were soon forced to cede Sicily to the Romans. 他们花费了他们的全部金钱造了这些船，但他们用这支崭新组建的船队战胜了迦

世界小史 第139期:船

Carthage was the richest and mightiest city for miles around and the Romans referred to its Phoenician inhabitants as Punics. 迦太基是远近一带最富有、最强大的城市，罗马将它的腓尼基居民称为布匿人。 Its ships went far

世界小史 第138期:贸易站和城市

But at a cost: he lost so many of his men that he is said to have cried out, One more such victory and we are lost! 但是代价很大：他的士兵战死的有如此之多以至据说他曾说：第二个这样的胜利我再也承受不了了! Whi

世界小史 第137期:井然有序

After the time of Alexander the Great, however, small wars against small towns ceased to satisfy them and they set about conquering the entire peninsula. 在亚历山大大帝以后的时期，他们不再满足于对小城邦进行小规模战争，他

世界小史 第185期:皇位

To restore respect and dignity to the role of emperor, 为了使皇权重新获得威望和受人敬畏， he introduced new rituals and court ceremony, and magnificent, richly embroidered robes for his courtiers and officials. 他实行了一套严格

世界小史 第1章:从前

第一章 从前 All stories begin with Once upon a time. 所有的故事都以从前 开头。 And that's just what this story is all about: what happened, once upon a time. 那恰好是这个故事所要讲的：从前发生了什么？ Once you we

世界小史 第2章:起源

Have you ever tried standing between two mirrors? You should. 你可曾试着站立在两面镜子之间？你不妨试一试。 You will see a great long line of shiny mirrors, each one smaller than the one before, 你会看见发亮的镜子的一条

世界小史 第3章:档案馆

It's like a bottomless well. Does all this looking down make you dizzy? 它就像一个无底的深井。从上往下看，你会头晕目眩吗？ It does me. So let's light a scrap of paper, and drop it down into that well. 我会的。那么让我们

世界小史 第7章:回到地球

And before that? Before that, not even the sun, our good old sun, was there. 那么在那以前呢？在那以前，甚至太阳，我们可爱又古老的太阳也不存在。 Only weird and amazing giant stars and smaller heavenly bodies, whirling

世界小史 第8章:伟大的发明家

Chapter 2 The Greatest Inventors of All Time 第二章 前所未有的最伟大的发明家 Near Heidelberg, in Germany, somebody was once digging a pit when they came across a bone, deep down under the ground. 有一次有人在德国海德堡附近挖

世界小史 第9章:头盖骨

On another occasion, but still in Germany in the Neander valley a human skull was found. 在另一个地方，但仍在德国，在尼安德尔山谷，人们发现了一块人的头盖骨。 And this was also immensely interesting because nobody ali

世界小史 第10章:下颌骨

But now you are going to say:Stop! That's not what we agreed. 但现在你一定会说，停！那不是我们当初同意的。 When did these people live, what were they like, and how did they live? 这些人生活在什么时候，他们长什么样

世界小史 第11章:祖先

These were our ancestors who may have already been using stones as tools more than 150,000 years ago. 这是我们的祖先，他们也许在15万年前就已经开始用石头当工具了。 They were very different from the Neanderthal people who a

世界小史 第12章:发明

Yet with all of these things there must have been a first time. 可是这一切必定有过第一次出现的时候。 Someone must have made the discovery. 这必定是某个人发明的。 Isn't it an amazing thought that, one day, a prehistoric ma

世界小史 第14章:疼痛

Of course animals also make noises they can cry out when they feel pain and make warning calls when danger threatens, 当然动物在感到疼痛时也会叫喊，在有危险时发出报警呼喊声， but they don't have names for things as human b

世界小史 第15章:猎获品

Rather like when we say 'Talk of the devil!' when someone we've been talking about turns up unexpectedly. 就像我们说：说曹操, 曹操到。的时候，当我们正在谈论的人意外出现。 After all, these animals were their prey, and wi

世界小史 第13章:建造房屋

But people didn't yet know how to build houses. 但是人们当时还不知道如何建造房屋。 Not a pleasant thought, since at that time it was often intensely cold at certain periods far colder than today. 一想到这点令人很不愉快，因