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

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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

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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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In the warm water of the fiords the herring schools have a fine recess until a whale or a fisherman comes along. 峡湾温暖的水域就成了大群鲱鱼的安乐窝,直到鲸或渔民的到来。 The northest city in the World is in Norway and t

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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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The Valley of Paradise is in Chileonly it isnt what you would think Paradise would be. 智利有个天堂之谷只是它不是你想象中的那个天堂。 It is the chief seaport of Chile, and it is not very lovely and not very healthful. In Spanis

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The Andes Mountains separate Argentina from a very long and narrow country on the Pacific shore named Chile. 安第斯山脉把阿根廷和位于太平洋沿岸的一个非常狭长的国家分隔开来,这个国家叫做智利。 Argentina is call

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Argentina is so much like the United States in a great many ways that it is often called the United States of South America. 阿根廷在很多方面很像美国,所以常被叫做南美洲的美国。 Both countries are alike in thisthat they have

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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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This doctor found out that what made the Isthmus so unhealthful waswhat do you suppose?nothing but little mosquitos. 这个医生发现造成地峡如此有害于健康的罪魁祸首是你猜是什么呢?竟然只是小小的蚊子。 These mosqui

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