The longest river in the world, the Nile, flows through the north-western area of Africa, and then into the Mediterranean Sea. Great civilizations have always flourished alongside rivers, but the Egyptian civilization, which started on the Nile, is t

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 旅游英语

A Russian passenger plane crashed Saturday in a mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, including 25 children. The plane disappeared from radar less than half an hour after taking off early Saturday from the reso

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Todd: Hey Leath! Do you want to go ahead and talk about the story you we're going to say? 嗨,利思!你接下来要讲一个故事吗? Leath: OK, um, yeah, this was about, I'd say a year and a half ago and it was in Harare, the capital, where

发表于:2019-01-15 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 实战口语情景对话

Finance and Economics 财经商业 Private equity and the Arab spring 私募股权和阿拉伯之春 Tentative steps 投石问路 Investor interest in the Middle East and north Africa remains cautious 投资者对中东、北非的兴趣依旧谨慎

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

Before he left Egypt to continue his campaign, he founded a new city by the sea and named it after himself: Alexandria. 在他撤离埃及继续作战之前,他在海边建立了一座城市并按他自己的名字命名:亚历山大。 It is sti

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 世界小史

Yet, under Cyrus's leadership, they succeeded, through courage and guile. 然而波斯人在居鲁士的统率下因其机谋和勇敢精神却终于成功了。 And so Cyrus became lord of that great realm. 于是居鲁士便成为统治整个国家的

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 世界小史

Chapter 3 The Land by the Nile 第三章 尼罗河畔的国家 Here - as I promised - History begins. 历史--我答应过你--将从这里开始。 With a when and a where. 以一个什么时候和一个哪里, It is 3,100 BC, that is, 5,100 years

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 世界小史

CAIRO, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) decided Wednesday to take part in Friday protests calling for cleansing the country's judicial authorities. The group, the main supporter of President Mohamed Morsi, said in a statement it d

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

古埃及金字塔是奴隶制帝王的陵墓,最宏大的当为吉萨三座大金字塔。塔基呈方形,每边长230米,高146米,用230余万块巨石(每块平均重达2.5吨)垒成,国王墓室用一块400吨重的石板垒成。整体规

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

埃及金字塔并非奴隶所建 New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves, as widely believed, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Sunday。 Films and media have long depicted sla

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Pollster Dalia Mogahed 分享了一些关于埃及人对于阿拉伯之春的态度的令人意外的数据主要集中于女性在导致变革中起到的角色。

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:告女性说

New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves, as widely believed, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Sunday. Films and media have long depicted slaves toiling away in the desert to build

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Sunday strongly condemned the upsurge of violence in Egypt, which reportedly left more than 70 people dead, and urged all Egyptian leaders to urge their supporters to show restraint. The secretary

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The number of tourists visiting Egypt plunged by a third in 2011 according to recently revealed data from the countrys state statistics body. The report stated that Tourist numbers fell to almost 10 million last year, from 14.7 million in 2010. CCTVs

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 时事新闻英语视频

12-year-old girl finds ancient Egyptian amulet 12岁女孩发现古埃及护符 An ancient Egyptian amulet was uncovered in Jerusalem by a young girl taking part in a family dig in the capital. 耶路撒冷小女孩参加圣殿山筛选项目考古活动

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(186) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

WASHINGTON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- The Obama administration has decided to suspend delivery of F-16 fighter planes to Egypt, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. Given the current situation in Egypt, we do not believe it is appropriate to move fo

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Africa suez canal, egypt 印度苏伊士运河 aswan high dam, egypt 印度阿斯旺水坝 nairobi national park, kenya 肯尼亚内罗毕国家公园 cape of good hope, south africa 南非好望角 sahara desert 撒哈拉大沙漠 pyramids, egypt 埃及

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

WASHINGTON - The United States and the European Union (EU) on Wednesday expressed concern about the dangerous stalemate in Egypt, as the country's interim president announced failed foreign mediation efforts. US Secretary of State John Kerry and EU's

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

HARI SREENIVASAN: The crash of a Russian jetliner in Egypt morphed into an international dispute today on whether a bomb was behind it. All 224 people on board were killed when the plane broke up Saturday, just 23 minutes after taking of from Sharm e

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

When the brothers went home that day, they told their father that Joseph had been carried off by a wild beast. 那天兄弟们回家的时候,他们告诉父亲约瑟被一只野兽叼走了。 As soon as the men who had bought Joseph reached Egypt

发表于:2019-03-11 / 阅读(194) / 评论(0) 分类 美国小学英语教材3