Now if you can't understand what a picture is unless you've seen one before. How on earth do you come up with the idea of creating one in the first place? So how did our ancient ancestors come to real

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 人、艺术、世界

They are made up of dots and lines or abstract shapes and patterns. Nothing in the natural world of the prehistoric artist would have looked like this, or this. And, very often, these patterns are rep

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What if we go back 2,000 years? This is the image of a horse from classical antiquity. It was made to decorate a Roman household, about one hundred years before Christ. And clearly the artists here ha

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[00:05.48]- We're not watching the sea. 海面还没查过 [00:07.68]- Why would we watch the sea? 干嘛看海面? [00:09.04]- Sweep the harbour. 拍一下海港 [00:12.28]- Bring up the harbour cameras. 海港摄影机,换到电脑上 [00:16.76

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You may wonder why people live in such faroff places, why they don't move to other places that are more comfortable. 你也许很好奇,为什么人们要居住在如此偏远的地方?为什么不搬到环境更舒适一点的地方呢? But pe

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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,

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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

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The land around the Amazon River is called Selvaswhich means woods. 亚马逊河附近的地区叫做热带雨林就是森林的意思。 It is not only woods but jungles and swamps, and it is very wild, hot, damp, and unhealthful. 不仅仅是森林,

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World Car-Free Day is a very important holiday on the environmental calendar. Every September 22, governments, green groups and ordinary citizens highlight the damage cars are doing to the Earth. The day is a reminder that we do not need to rely so m

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[00:00.00]A Kind Word 友善的话语 [00:09.22]A successful businessman, [00:12.42]addressing the commercial club of his city, [00:15.98]told a story of an orphan named Jim, [00:17.95]who was the laughing stock of the whole town. [00:20.74]Jim was 12, [

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[00:00.00]The Best Teacher I Ever Had 我遇到的最好的老师 [00:05.41]Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. [00:10.00]On the first day of class, [00:12.09]he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, [00:15.36]an animal that was wipe

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[00:00.00]A Better World 更美的世界 [00:04.66]This is the true joy of life, [00:08.05]being a force of nature to make the world a better place, [00:11.76]instead of a selfish little clot, [00:13.96]complaining that the world will not devote itself t

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Constantine no longer ruled the empire from Rome. 君士坦丁不再坐镇罗马进行统治。 In those days the chief threat came from the east, the Persians having once again become powerful. 当时帝国在东方受到最大的威胁,受到波斯

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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

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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

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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

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Now, an ambitious new idea began to take hold in Lewis Williams' mind because he was aware that there were other rock paintings which were very similar to those painted by the San. These were many tho

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Here, for the first time, we've got a theory, which seems to solve many of the puzzles that've mystified experts in the past. It's a theory based not just on an investigation of the cave art itself, b

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On one side of the hill, archeologists discovered an area that had been used as a quarry . This is where the huge pillars that dominated Gobekli Tepe were cut from the limestone bedrock . Here's a pil

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The Wonderful World 多彩的世界 William B. Rands 威廉B兰德 Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world. 伟大、辽阔、美丽的多彩世界啊, With the wonderful water round you curled. 甘甜的水环绕着你, And the wonderful grass u

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