美国学生世界地理教材 第13期:世界的内部(1)

Chapter 3 The Inside of the World 第3章 世界的内部 When I was a very little boy I was very inquisitive. 小时候就是个非常好奇的孩子， At least that's what my nurse called me. 至少我的保姆是这样说的。 One day when I was

美国学生世界地理教材 第7期:透过小望远镜看到的世界(3)

These patches which look like shadows are really land and are called by a long name: continents. 这些看起来像阴影的斑块实际上是土地，它们有个很深奥的名字：大陆。 These continents have names, and if their names were pri

美国学生世界地理教材 第1期:前言(1)

This book is for the child who: thinks heaven is in the sky and hell is under the ground; 这本书是写给这样的孩子：他认为天堂在天上，地狱在地下； has never heard of London or Paris and thinks a Dane is a kind of dog. 他从未

美国学生世界地理教材 第2期:前言(2)

The World was an orange when I went to school, 我上学的时候，世界对我来说就像一个橙子， and there were only three things I can remember that I ever learned for sure that the Dutch children wore wooden shoes, 我记得只有三个细

美国学生世界地理教材 第3期:前言(3)

Casually I asked if any one could tell me why it was called the Bridge of Sighs. 我随口问了一句：有谁知道它为什么叫叹息桥吗？ One boy said, Because it is of big size A little girl scorning his ignorance, said, Because it has sid

美国学生世界地理教材 第4期:前言(4)

In the little town where I was born, there lived an old, old man 在我出生的小镇上，住着一位很老的老人， whose chief claim to distinction was the fact that he had never in his whole life been ten miles away from home. 他在镇上很有

美国学生世界地理教材 第8期:透过小望远镜看到的世界(4)

The part of the World that isn't patches of shadow or snow is water. 环绕着大陆的水叫做海洋， The water all around the continents is the ocean, and though of course there are no walls nor fences dividing it into different parts, 尽管并没

美国学生世界地理教材 第9期:世界是圆的 我围着它绕了一圈(1)

Chapter 2 The World Is Round, for I've Been Round It 第2章 世界是圆的，我围着它绕了一圈 Did you ever run away from home? 你曾离家出走过吗？我有过，有一次在我比你还小的时候。 I didonce upon a timewhen I was yo

美国学生世界地理教材 第10期:世界是圆的 我围着它绕了一圈(2)

If a man could start out when the sun rose in the morning and keep up with it all day long, 如果一个人能在早晨太阳升起的时候出发，一整天都跟着太阳走， go over the side of the world when the sun set and keep up with it on

美国学生世界地理教材 第11期:世界是圆的 我围着它绕了一圈(3)

Someday rocket ships will probably carry men on trips to the Moon or even to the planet Mars. 也许有一天宇宙飞船可以载人飞行到月球上或是火星上。 How would you like to go exploring in a rocket ship beyond the World's atmospher

美国学生世界地理教材 第12期:世界是圆的 我围着它绕了一圈(4)

But the world kept getting cooler and cooler until at last the steam turned to water and fell on the worldrain, rain, rain, 但是世界还在持续冷却，直到最后水蒸气变成了水落到地球上那就是雨，雨不停地下， until there

美国学生世界地理教材 第51期:仙境(3)

Still farther north, a hop, skip, and a jump from the Colorado Canyon, in the corner of the State of Wyoming, 拉多大峡谷再往北不远处是怀俄明州，在怀俄明州的西北角有块地方， is a place that looks on the map like a little

美国学生世界地理教材 第48期:大篷车(3)

People who thought their farms had been spoiled by oil found that the oil was worth a fortune, 那些以为农田被油毁掉的人发现这种油有巨大的价值， worth much more than what they could make out of chickens and pigs, or corn and wh

美国学生世界地理教材 第21期:十三俱乐部(3)

Now thirteen is generally considered an unlucky number, but these 13 States were not afraid of bad luck. 现在13通常被认为是个不吉利的数字，但是这13个州并不害怕什么坏运气。 In fact, as the new country had to have a flag,

美国学生世界地理教材 第20期:十三俱乐部(2)

As the initials of the United States are U.S., someone said they stand for Uncle Sam, so the old fellow dressed in a flag we call Uncle Sam. 美国的首字母是U.S,于是有人说它代表山姆大叔（Uncle Sam,首字母同U.S.),我们因此就把那

美国学生世界地理教材 第19期:十三俱乐部(1)

Chapter 5 The 13 Club 第5章 十三俱乐部 A man may pay millions of dollars to have a hospital, a library, 一个人也许要花上几百万美元才能让一家医院、一个图书馆 or a museum named after him, and another who has paid nothin

美国学生世界地理教材 第43期:青春泉(1)

Chapter 12 The Fountain of Youth 第12章 青春泉 Birds go south in the winter to get warm. Some people in the cold Northern States do the same. 冬天鸟类飞到南方过冬取暖。美国北部冬天极冷，一些人也去南方过冬。 The fa

美国学生世界地理教材 第37期:扬基人的定居地(3)

In New Hampshire there are mountains called the White Mountains, and one of these White Mountains, named after our First President, is Mount Washington. 在新罕布什尔州有一些山叫做怀特山脉，其中有一座山是以美国第一任总统

美国学生世界地理教材 第155期:新月之国(4)

An inlet from the Bosporus cuts into Istanbul in the shape of a horn. 有一个牛角形状的小水湾，从博斯普鲁斯海切入到伊斯坦布尔， It is called the Golden Horn, and across the entrance a great chain used to be stretched to kee

美国学生世界地理教材 第197期:一条巨大的海蛇怪(2)

They are curious or inquisitive and they want to know and see why there is No Admittance. 他们很好奇，对别人的私事爱刨根问底。他们就想知道和弄明白为什么禁止入内。 So, over a hundred years ago, an American naval off