澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-20

Ireland has moved a step closer to accepting an emergency bailout from European banks by admitting it needs help. The country's central bank says Ireland is willing to accept tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans to show markets it has the c

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-08 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—11

His memory would be obliterated by events which would create Ireland's first and most enduring cult of personality. It is the story of a spiritual revolution born in an age of imperial collapse. Since the beginning of the fifth century, barbarian att

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-05 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—10

This type of inscribed stone is usually found only in Ireland or the far western fringes of Britain. These lines represent the oldest form of the Irish language. Michael, what is this stone? Well, it is a small Roman column, but what's very different

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-03 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—9

It seems the Romans did briefly contemplate an invasion until trouble in Scotland called the legions away. And so Ireland was never subordinated to Roman law or government. But they didn't need to dispatch an army to exert an influence that extended

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-01 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—8

A geographer living under Caesars rule described the Irish as a cannibal race who deemed it commendable to devour their deceased fathers and who lived a miserable existence because of the cold. But Mediterranean traders had long been immune to such d

英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-29 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—7

The murdered man from the Meath bog reveals something of how the Irish lived several hundreds years before Christ. Their gods were the gods of nature whom they appeased with sacrifice. They had developed a social organisation with kings at the pinnac

英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-25 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—5

-You always ask me difficult questions. -Well, that's my job. -Well, this does at least tell us somebody comes from Northern Europe here with this material in quite considerable amounts. -Well, somebody may not have come. Somebody may have been handi

英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-27 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—6

-We can see he has this very unusual hairstyle. The front of the forehead was shaved, and then the rest of hair was bundled up a bit like a Mohawk. And that was held in place with a hair gel, which was made using resin imported from the Pyrenees. -Th

英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-15 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—1

There is an Ireland shrouded in clich, of heroes and villains, lost battles and sad songs. Perched on the margins of Europe, a claustrophobic island cut off from the world, its people turned in upon themselves, victims of their own ancient hatreds an

英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-18 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—2

Here they constructed a memorial which celebrated revolution, faith and an idealized ancient world. At its center, this sculpture of the mythical Children of Lir condemned by an evil stepmother to wander the oceans as swans until the coming of Christ

英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-20 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—3

-I remember one kid said, Sir, that doesn't make any sense? I said, How do you mean it doesn't make any sense? I said, Carson wanted the union of Ireland and Britain, he wanted what, for him, was the best thing for Ireland. Now can you say that he is

英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-22 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—4

-Why would they build something like this? What were they trying to say? -I think for early farmers, the notion of ancestry, that's really the central focus of this world. The monuments themselves contain selected bones of the ancestors. This is the

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-29 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—20

The Vikings who would eventually descend on Ireland had their ancestral roots here in Norway. From these fjords, they created a maritime empire that stretched from the shores of America in the west to central Russia in the east. The Viking world of t

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-12 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—13

Tell me what happens when the monks arrive. Well, they would have, first of all, made their way to the local king, the local lord, or something like that, because you couldnt just arrive off the next available flight and announce, hi, Im your new loc

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-15 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—14

And this is the great settlement of Clonmacnoise. As you sweep around this turn in the river Shannon, you get the round towers, the churches and everything. You get the first idea that this is a really substantial monastic foundation. How did we arri

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-17 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—15

What it says is that the Irish are the centre of the world. Theyre not a small insignificant people. It was woven together in the 11th century from earlier sources as a statement of Irish uniqueness. They didnt want to be seen as peripheral people li

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-24 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—18

For the monasteries were still producing great works of art. He might have been less enamoured at the political maneuvering. The status of clergy could have much to do with their alliances and family ties with the local aristocracy. Indeed, from the

英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-31 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—21

For over 40 years, the Vikings raided Irelands coastal villages and monasteries, carrying off plunder and slaves in their long boats. They struck suddenly and caught the Irish unawares. So the Vikings became bolder and began to sail down the rivers o

英语听力：探索发现 2012-09-05 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—23

Brian did not see himself as a king among equals but as high king of all Ireland, and with a mighty army he set about trying to control the island. In the only statement of his that we know about, he describes himself as Imperator Scottorum, Emperor

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I have a video for you today. It is about Terry and his wife, who is also called Terry (Terry is a name which both men and women can have). Together they tell the story of how they first met, and how over 50 years later they got married. Terry (the m