美国学生世界地理教材 第14期:世界的内部(2)

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，

世界节假日博览 第23期:世界结婚日

Marriage is forever. Until death do us part. At least thats what people promise at the altar when they say I do. World Marriage Day (WMD) is celebrated on the second Sunday in February. It is for peopleto think about their marriage and perhaps renew

有声英文阅读-世界中的世界

Worlds within Worlds First of all let us consider the earth (that is to say, the world) as a planet revolving round the sun. The earth is one of mine planets which move in orbit round the sun. These n

更美的世界02-微笑的世界

[00:00.00]World of Smiles 微笑的世界 [00:06.17]About ten years ago [00:09.12]when I was an undergraduate in college, [00:11.42]I was working as an intern at my Universitys Museum of Natural History. [00:15.90]One day while working at the cash regist

世界小史 第15章:猎获品

Rather like when we say 'Talk of the devil!' when someone we've been talking about turns up unexpectedly. 就像我们说：说曹操, 曹操到。的时候，当我们正在谈论的人意外出现。 After all, these animals were their prey, and wi

世界小史 第14章:疼痛

Of course animals also make noises they can cry out when they feel pain and make warning calls when danger threatens, 当然动物在感到疼痛时也会叫喊，在有危险时发出报警呼喊声， but they don't have names for things as human b

双语有声阅读:Worlds within Worlds 世界中的世界

First of all let us consider the earth (that is to say, the world) as a planet revolving round the sun. The earth is one of mine planets which move in orbit round the sun. These nine planets, together with the sun, make up what is called our solar sy

世界小史 第138期:贸易站和城市

But at a cost: he lost so many of his men that he is said to have cried out, One more such victory and we are lost! 但是代价很大：他的士兵战死的有如此之多以至据说他曾说：第二个这样的胜利我再也承受不了了! Whi

世界小史 第106期:孔夫子

So I am sure you will be interested in the teachings of Confucius or K'ung Fu-tzu, as he was called in Chinese. 所以我确定你会对孔子或汉语中叫孔夫子的学说感兴趣。 They aren't hard to understand. Nor to remember. 它们不难懂

世界小史 第52期:神圣的经文和歌

The idea that each sign might represent one sound, 每个符号表示一个音， and that just 26 of those signs were all you needed to write every conceivable word, 二十六个这样的符号就是你所有需要的去写每个可以想象的单词：

世界小史 第31章:书卷

They wrote on long strips of this papyrus, which were then rolled up into scrolls. 他们写在这种莎草纸的长条片上，然后卷成书卷。 A whole heap of these scrolls has survived. 一大堆这样的书卷被保存下来了。 And when w

世界小史 第32章:齐阿普斯

Only rarely in the course of all that time did people turn against this strict conformity. 在这整个漫长的时期中人们只对这种严格的老一套反对过两次。 Once was shortly after the reign of King Cheops, about 2,100 BC, when the

世界小史 第34期:星期

There are seven days in a week. 一星期有七天。 I don't need to tell you their names because you know them already. 我不必告诉你他们的名字因为你已经知道了。 But have you any idea where and when it was that the days were each

世界小史 第35期:辽阔的平原

Picture a vast plain, crossed by these two rivers. 你想象一个极其辽阔的平原，这两条河流经这个平原。 A land of heat and swamp and sudden floods. 这个平原上的土地又热又湿，有时洪水突如其来。 Here and there

世界小史 第36期:美索不达米亚

Unlike Egypt, Mesopotamia was rarely ruled by just one king. 美索不达米亚（两河流域）不像埃及，它很少由一位国王统治，Nor did any single empire survive long within firm frontiers. 也没有一个王朝的统治延续长久、

世界小史 第37期:齐阿普斯金字塔

A great number of tombs were also found that appeared to date from the same time as Cheops's Great Pyramid in Egypt. 人们在这里找到了一大批墓穴，它们大约跟埃及的齐阿普斯金字塔建造的时期相同。 But while the pyramid

世界小史 第39期:巴比伦国王

One of the first Babylonian kings to rule over the whole region left a long and important inscription, engraved in stone. 统治全国的头一批巴比伦国王中有一个国王留下了一段这样的重要铭文，它被凿在一块石头上。 I

世界小史 第44期:肥沃的牧场

Between Egypt and Mesopotamia there is a land of deep valleys and rich pastures. 在埃及和美索不达米亚之间有一片土地，那里有深谷和肥沃的牧场。 There, for thousands of years, herdsmen tended their flocks. 好几千年之久，

世界小史(MP3+中英字幕) 第27章:古埃及人

But the Egyptians knew what they were doing. 但是古埃及人知道他们在做什么。 Every detail is clear: how they used great nets to catch ducks on the Nile, 每一个细节都一目了然：他们如何在尼罗河畔用大网捕鸭， how

哪个猝不及防的瞬间你爱上了这个世界

BBC对各行各业的人进行了一次问卷，结合过去一年内最难忘的经历，说出那个让你爱上世界理由。问卷对象有作家、厨师、音乐家、摄影师等等，他们都在某个并没有预料到的瞬间，爱上了这