[00:00.00]A Better World 更美的世界 [00:04.66]This is the true joy of life, [00:08.05]being a force of nature to make the world a better place, [00:11.76]instead of a selfish little clot, [00:13.96]complaining that the world will not devote itself t

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Constantine no longer ruled the empire from Rome. 君士坦丁不再坐镇罗马进行统治。 In those days the chief threat came from the east, the Persians having once again become powerful. 当时帝国在东方受到最大的威胁,受到波斯

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But people didn't yet know how to build houses. 但是人们当时还不知道如何建造房屋。 Not a pleasant thought, since at that time it was often intensely cold at certain periods far colder than today. 一想到这点令人很不愉快,因

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And before that? Before that, not even the sun, our good old sun, was there. 那么在那以前呢?在那以前,甚至太阳,我们可爱又古老的太阳也不存在。 Only weird and amazing giant stars and smaller heavenly bodies, whirling

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It's like a bottomless well. Does all this looking down make you dizzy? 它就像一个无底的深井。从上往下看,你会头晕目眩吗? It does me. So let's light a scrap of paper, and drop it down into that well. 我会的。那么让我们

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Now, an ambitious new idea began to take hold in Lewis Williams' mind because he was aware that there were other rock paintings which were very similar to those painted by the San. These were many tho

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Here, for the first time, we've got a theory, which seems to solve many of the puzzles that've mystified experts in the past. It's a theory based not just on an investigation of the cave art itself, b

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On one side of the hill, archeologists discovered an area that had been used as a quarry . This is where the huge pillars that dominated Gobekli Tepe were cut from the limestone bedrock . Here's a pil

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The Wonderful World 多彩的世界 William B. Rands 威廉B兰德 Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world. 伟大、辽阔、美丽的多彩世界啊, With the wonderful water round you curled. 甘甜的水环绕着你, And the wonderful grass u

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白领英语晨读-116 Borderless World 无边界世界

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: How can we speak powerfully to make change in the world? 如何说话有力量且强大到可以改变整个世界?

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There they signaled a passing ship and asked that his body be taken to England. 在海边,他们向一艘过往的船发出信号,请求将利文斯通的尸体带回英国。 In England he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where the famous and gr

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A hundred years ago people knew little or nothing about this part of Africa. 一个世纪以前,人们对非洲的这块地方所知甚少或一无所知。 It was an unhealthful and a dangerous country for the white man. 对白人来说,这是一个

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Carthage was the richest and mightiest city for miles around and the Romans referred to its Phoenician inhabitants as Punics. 迦太基是远近一带最富有、最强大的城市,罗马将它的腓尼基居民称为布匿人。 Its ships went far

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It took all the money they had, but with their brand new fleet they defeated the Carthaginians, who were soon forced to cede Sicily to the Romans. 他们花费了他们的全部金钱造了这些船,但他们用这支崭新组建的船队战胜了迦

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He was that rare thing: a man who made war like a chess-player, carefully considering each move before he made it. 他是个不寻常的人:他是一个在战争中像一个棋手在下每一步棋前都深思熟虑的人。 But above all he was a

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They could practice their own religion and speak their own language, and in many ways they benefited from all the good things the Romans brought, such as roads. 他们可以保持自己的宗教并讲自己的语言。是的,罗马人也带给他们各

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There are many old and wonderful stories telling of the love Romans had for their native land and of their faithfulness to its laws. 有许多古老的、美好的故事讲述罗马人的这种对家乡的热爱和他们对法律的忠诚。 Stories

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His men shouted to him to jump back down. 士兵们向他大声喊叫,要他赶快跳回来。 Instead he leapt straight into the city and, with his back to the ramparts, defended himself with his shield against overwhelming odds. 但是他却一跃直

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What do you want of me? asked Alexander. Only that you treat me as befits a king. 你对我有什么要求?亚历山大问。我要你像对待君王那样对待我。 And that is all? That is all, came the reply, there is no more to be said. 没有别

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