美国学生世界地理教材 第120期:死亡而又活着的城市(1)

Lesson 36 第36章 The Dead and Alive City 死亡而又活着的城市 Two thousand years ago you could start out on any road anywhere, and if you kept on going far enough 两千年前，如果你从地球上的任意一个地方的任意一条路出发

美国学生世界地理教材 第130期:鱼儿峡湾瀑布和森林(1)

HAVE you a good imagination? 你的想象力丰富吗？ I mean, when there are clouds in the sky, can you see giants or galloping horses or rabbits with long ears or other things? 我是指，当天上有云朵时，你能看出是巨人？飞奔的骏

美国学生世界地理教材 第137期:极昼之地(2)

The land at the top of the World is often called The Land of the Midnight Sun, because the sun shines at midnight. 世界之巅常常被称作午夜太阳之地，因为午夜时分太阳依然在天空； It might just as well be called The Land of

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84期:盎格鲁人的土地(2)

There is, however, another great building in London that does have a dome like our Capitol. 然而，在伦敦另有一栋大楼还真有和我们的国会大厦一样的圆屋顶。 But that building is a church and it is called St. Pauls. 但那个楼

美国学生世界地理教材 第71期:南美洲北部(4)

Have you ever heard of a man named Simon Bolivar? 你听说过一个叫做西蒙 ?玻利瓦尔的人吗？ Probably not, but in South America every boy and girl knows him as you know George Washington. 大概没有，但在南美洲，每个男孩女孩

美国学生世界地理教材 第69期:南美洲北部(2)

In British Guiana far back in the wilds is a waterfall nearly five times as high as Niagara, 在英属圭亚那偏远的荒野有一个瀑布，几乎有尼亚加拉瀑布五倍高， yet so far away from everything that hardly any white men have eve

美国学生世界地理教材 第68期:南美洲北部(1)

Chapter 21 North South America 第21章 南美洲北部 South American looks like a carrot, a turnip, a top, a funnel, a leaf, a fig, 南美洲看起来像一只胡萝卜、一个芜菁、一个陀螺、一个漏斗、一片叶子、一个无花果、

美国学生世界地理教材 第66期:海盗的海洋(3)

Another two days sailing south and I was on another island called Nassau, the capital of a group of islands called the Bahamas. 乘船往南又航行两天我就到了另一个叫做拿骚的岛屿，它是巴哈马群岛的首都。 In Nassau sponge

美国学生世界地理教材 第64期:海盗的海洋(1)

Chapter 20 Pirate Seas 第20章 海盗的海洋 I was once on a train leaving Baltimore when a man asked me where I was going. I told him I was going to Baltimore. 我有一次坐火车正要离开巴尔的摩，这时一个男子问我到哪去。我告

美国学生世界地理教材 第165期:确切地点(1)

There are three most famous places in Palestine. 在巴勒斯坦，有三个最有名的地方。 The first is the place where Christ was born, the second is the place where Christ lived, and the third is the place where Christ died. 第一个是耶稣

美国学生世界地理教材 第162期:丰饶之国(2)

Often a traveler buys something in a Damascus bazaar only to find on it later the tell-tale words Made in Birmingham. 游客常常在大马士革街市上买一件纪念品，后来却发现上面有伯明翰制造的标志。 A white picture painted

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