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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when I was a boy the story I liked best was one about wolves in Russia. 我小时候最喜欢的故事,是关于俄罗斯狼群的。 Some Russians in a sleigh were driving across the snow, when they were attacked by a pack of hungry wolves. 一些俄

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And so back home once more after a trip Around the World in more than 400 pages! 经过四百多页的环球旅行之后,我们终于再次回到了家。 Home, Sweet Home! 家啊,温馨的家! Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be i

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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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But it isnt rough weather that the captain fears most of all. 但船长最担忧的并不是恶劣的天气。 It is a sea fog, especially when he knows there are other ships near,for when there is a fog he cannot see his way at all. 他怕的是海上

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Chapter 24 The Bridge Across the Ocean 第24章 越洋之旅 When you go to Europe you have to take two things with you besides your ticket and your luggage. 要去欧洲的话,除了车票和行李之外,你还得带两样东西。 I wonder if y

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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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Many people fill a bottle with some of the muddy water and take it home to use as holy water, 很多人还用瓶子装上一些约旦河浑浊的河水,带回家,当做圣水使用, or in order to baptize their children with water from the same

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Other animals looking for food will come along too and must be scared away from the bait or killed. 其他寻找食物的动物也会出现,见到诱饵一定会被吓跑或被猎杀。 The first animal to come along is usually the hyena. 最先出现

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Have you ever been to the zoo or the circus? 你去过动物园或马戏团吗? How would you like to live in a zoo where the animals were not in cages? 如果有个动物园,动物都不关在笼子里,你愿意住在里面吗? The land in A

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There they signaled a passing ship and asked that his body be taken to England. 在海边,他们向一艘过往的船发出信号,请求将利文斯通的尸体带回英国。 In England he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where the famous and gr

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I have told you of a White Sea and a Black Sea. Here is a Red Sea. It is a long, narrow sea bordering Arabia. 我介绍过白海和黑海,现在要讲红海了,它是与阿拉伯毗连的一个狭长的海。 I don't know why it's called Red, unl

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Once upon a time there was a king in the old days long ago when kings could put to death whomsoever they wished. 在很久以前的古代,国王可以任意处死他不喜欢的人。 This king had a wife whom he was going to put to death the next

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Their stockings are like mittens with a place for the toe, 他们的袜子像连指手套,四脚趾相连与脚拇指分开。 and they would no more think of stepping on the mats with their shoes on than you would of getting into bed with your sho

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A hundred years ago people knew little or nothing about this part of Africa. 一个世纪以前,人们对非洲的这块地方所知甚少或一无所知。 It was an unhealthful and a dangerous country for the white man. 对白人来说,这是一个

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This mud is very rich soil in which the Egyptians grow wheat and a very fine kind of cotton. 这种泥土成了非常肥沃的土壤,埃及人就在上面种植小麦和一种优质棉花。 In the olden times the Nile used to overflow the banks on

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A pickled man is called a mummy, and the mummies of many such rulers of Egypt are now in museums. 一个用防腐剂处理后的人叫做木乃伊。许多这样的木乃伊埃及曾经的统治者现在就存放在博物馆里。 One of the Seven Wo

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All the continents begin with an A except one. 地球上所有大洲的英文名字,除一个洲之外,都是以A开头的。 Asia is the largest continent. Africa is the next largest. 亚洲是最大的洲。非洲是第二大洲。 But Africa w

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A picture of two Japanese carrying a big bucket on a pole which rests on their shoulders. 两个日本人用一根杆子抬着一个大水桶, In the tubI couldn't see them but I knewthere are live fish. 画中那只桶里虽然我看不见,但是我

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