美国学生世界地理教材 第175期:产生《一千零一夜》的国家(4)

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

美国学生世界地理教材 第173期:产生《一千零一夜》的国家(2)

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

美国学生世界地理教材 第208期:人造山(4)

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

美国学生世界地理教材 第206期:人造山(2)

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

美国学生世界地理教材 第203期:风景明信片(4)

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

世界小史 第150期:亚历山大大帝

It would never have occurred to the Romans to do what Alexander the Great had done. 罗马人从未有过类似于亚历山大大帝那样的想法。 They had no wish to turn the lands they conquered into a single, vast empire in which everyone was

世界小史 第117期:布克法罗斯

His father once bought a beautiful stallion that no one could tame. 有一次他父亲买了一匹特别漂亮的公马，谁也驯服不了这匹马，His name was Bucephalus. Whenever anyone tried to mount him they were thrown off. 这匹马叫布克

世界小史 第102期:公元前2500年

But at the time I am going to talk about, around 2,500 years ago,我要讲述的那个时期里，大约在公元前2500年，all this was yet to come, though China was already a vast and ancient kingdom. 这一切还全都没有，虽然当时的中国

世界小史 第48期:富庶的埃及

You may know how the story goes on: how there was a famine throughout the land, and how Joseph's brothers traveled to Egypt to buy corn. 你知道，这故事后来如何继续，一场大饥荒如何肆虐全国以及约瑟的兄长们如何进入富庶

世界小史 第47期:巴比伦

But that isn't all the Bible has to say about ancient Babylon. 但是这不是《圣经》所讲述的有关巴比伦的唯一的一件事。 Do you know the story of the Tower of Babel, 你知道得巴别塔的故事吗？ when the people of a great

世界小史 第46期:旧约全书

You may have already guessed who these strange and powerless herdsmen were. 也许你已经猜到了，这个奇怪的、弱小的游牧民族是谁。 They were the Jews. 他们就是犹太人。 And the songs of their deeds, which were the deeds of

世界小史 第49期:睿智和公正的国王

And finally, after long, cruel and bloody battles, they succeeded. 经过长期残忍的流血战斗，他们终于成功了。 So now they had their own small kingdom, with its capital: Jerusalem. 就这样，他们有了一个自己的小小的国家

世界小史 第60期:缴纳贡品

Speaking of labyrinths, have you ever heard the story of the evil Minotaur, half man, half bull, 说到迷宫，你听说过凶恶的人身牛首怪物的传说吗？他一半是人一半是公牛， who lived in a labyrinth and made the Greeks send

世界小史 第56期:巨人和女巫

下载MP3到电脑 批量下载MP3和LRC到手机 英中对照 中英对照 英文在前 中文在前 只看英文 只看中文 He read Homer over and over again, and longed to see all the beautiful places described by the poet. 此人反复阅读荷马

世界小史 第33章:阿肯纳顿

The ancient temples were shut down, and King Akhenaton and his wife moved into a new palace. 古老的庙宇被关闭，阿肯纳顿和他的妻子一道迁进一座新宫殿。 Since he was utterly opposed to tradition, and in favor of fine new idea

世界小史 第45期:引导者

All other peoples prayed to many godsyou remember Isis and Osiris, Baal and Astarte. 所有其他的民族全都向许多的神祈祷你还记得伊西斯和俄西里斯，巴尔和阿斯塔耳忒吧。 But these herdsmen only prayed to one god, thei

世界小史 第40期:亚述人

For both the Babylonians and the Assyrians worshipped the sun and the moon, and also the stars. 因为巴比伦尼亚人和亚述人都把太阳、月亮和星星当作他们的神祈祷， On clear, warm nights, throughout the year and over centurie

世界小史 第30章:象形文字

Now then, think what a job it must have been to decipher all that Egyptian writing when people became interested in hieroglyphs again, 200 years ago. 那么现在想一想，当人们在200年前重新对象形文字产生兴趣，要读懂所有的古

世界小史 第28章:彩色画像

Next to these brightly colored paintings you often see lots of tiny pictures of all sorts of things, 在这一排排彩色画像的旁边，你往往会看到许多画着各种各样的东西的小画像， such as owls and little people, flags, flow

世界小史 第18章:原始人

Now let's take a last look at these people dressed in skins, 现在让我们一起最后再看一看这些身上穿着动物毛皮的原始人， as they paddle their boats made of hollowed-out tree trunks towards their villages of huts on stilts, br