Could you dig down as deep as the Washington Monument goes up? 你能在地下挖出华盛顿纪念碑那么高的深度吗? I thought perhaps I could, but I was a little doubtful for the Washington Monument seemed terribly high. 我想也许我能,

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Chapter 1 The World Through a Spy-Glass 第1章 透过小望远镜看到的世界 You may never have seen your own face. 你从来都没看过你自己的脸。 This may surprise you and you may say it isn't so but it is so. 这样说可能让你惊讶

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So we know that the distance must be about eight thousand miles, as twenty-five is a little more than three times eight. 那么我们就知道从世界一面到另一面的距离肯定是大约8000英里,因为25是8的三倍多一点。 That is no

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When some inquisitive child asked, What does the flat World like a mud pie rest on? 当某个好奇的孩子问道:这个平平的像泥馅饼的世界是放在什么上面的呢? they really truly said, It rests on the backs of four elephants. 他们

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Inside the shell of the cocoanut is white meat, and inside of that is a kind of milk. 椰子壳里面就是白色的椰肉,在椰肉里面有一种牛奶样的椰汁。 The natives eat the meat of the nut as we would bread, and drink the milk, so t

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Winners of games long ago used to be crowned with a wreath made of olive leaves, 古代,比赛获胜者都给戴上橄榄枝做成的花环, and in time of war, messengers bringing peace used to carry an olive branch. 在战争期间,带来和平

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Chapter 32 Castles in Spain (continued) 西班牙城堡(续) When I was a boy I once climbed over a fence into a field, and before I knew it a bull was dashing toward me. 我小的时候有一次爬过篱笆,跑到一块田里。还没等我反应

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Chapter 30 The Land Below the Sea 低于海平面的国家 Bells and Battle-fields dont seem to go together, but north of France is a land of Bells and Battle-fields, called Belgium. 钟和战场似乎并不匹配,但是在法国北面有一个与钟

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Many of these beautiful works of art are kept in buildings that used to be palaces. 这些美丽的艺术品,其中很多都存放在原本是宫殿的建筑物里。 The palaces in Florence look more like prisons than palaces. 佛罗伦萨的宫殿看

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Im sick, said Mr. B. Mr. G. knows so much about building a dome, let him go on with it. 我病了,布先生说,吉先生很擅长建造圆顶,让他继续建下去吧。 So the people went back to Mr. G. and told him to go ahead. 于是人们回到

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It is like a jam of people all trying at once to get through a door: they get so wedged in that none can go through. 就像一大群人都要同时过一个门:他们就挤在一起了,谁也动不了,结果一个人也过不去。 But the dome

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Lesson 35 第35章 The Gates of Paradise and the Dome of Heaven 天堂之门和天国的穹顶 Down the length of Italy like the back of a sea monster is a ridge of mountains called the Apennines. 有一条山脉的山脊从北向南纵贯整个意大利

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On the tops of the mountains there are vast fields of snow and ice like frosting on a huge cake, 山顶有大片大片雪和冰,就像一块巨大的蛋糕上撒满了糖霜。 but as this snow and ice sinks down to the valleys it melts and the wat

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Leif Ericson lived about a thousand years ago. 莱弗.埃里克松生活在一千年前, He and his men sailed across the ocean and landed in America five hundred years before Columbus discovered America, 他和他手下的人早在哥伦布发现美

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No one knows when Vesuvius may do the same thing again, but the people in Naples never seem to think of such a thing; 没有人知道维苏威火山会在哪一天再次制造这样的悲剧,但是那不勒斯人似乎从不考虑这件事, they

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The rock that the volcano melts flows over the top like a pot boiling over and runs down the sides in streams that gradually harden into rock as they cool off. 那些被熔化了的岩石,就像因沸腾而溢出水壶的开水,小溪般从山顶四

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Chapter 23 Silver Land and Sliver Land 第23章 白银之国和棉条之国 We give babies names when they are born, but sometimes when the babies grow up the names do not fit them. 孩子出生了,就要取个名字,但有些孩子长大后,名字

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When the World was young and people believed in sea-serpents they used to say there was a huge sea-serpent a thousand miles long in the sea near China. 在人类历史的早期阶段,人们相信世界上有海蛇怪,他们常说在中国海域附近

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After the Japanese were beaten in the war they were not allowed to have a big army nor to build war machines like battle-ships, tanks, and guns. 日本人战败之后,被禁止拥有一支庞大的军队,也禁止建造诸如战舰、坦克和枪炮

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The one for the boys is on the fifth day of the fifth month, that is May fifth. It is called Flag Day or Kite Day. 另一个是男孩子的节日,在第五个月的第五天,也就是5月5日,叫做国旗节或风筝节。 Big paper kites in th

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