How Art Made The World 人、艺术、世界 -04

And then came an even more exciting find, in a cave called Lascaux, a gallery of pictures of breathtaking beauty. As more and more paintings came to light, they revealed prehistoric artists had painte

How Art Made The World 人、艺术、世界 -05

Henri Breuil was a French priest, but he was also the foremost expert on cave art for much of the 20th century. He believed, perhaps not surprisingly, that the paintings were about hunting. Prehistori

美国学生世界地理教材 第128期:战争和童话故事(3)

There are millions of birds called auks which fly so low and so thick over the land that the Eskimos catch them with a net as you would catch butterflies. 那里有一种叫海雀的海鸟，非常多，成百上千万，它们成群成群地飞得很低

美国学生世界地理教材 第127期:战争和童话故事(2)

Most of these castles are now in ruins, because it is too hard to get to them and to keep them in repair, 现在，这些城堡大部分已经成为废墟，因为很难再到城堡对它们进行维修， and no longer can any one treat the poor peo

金融世界 第二十二讲(有声)

在这一讲中我们要继续向您介绍 World Trade Organisation, 世界贸易组织。 在以前的节目中我们为您介绍过世界贸易组织的前身是 General Agreement on Tariffs and Tra

金融世界 第二十一讲(有声)

上一讲中我们介绍了两个重要的国际组织：International Monetary Fund－国际货币基金组织和 World Trade Organisation－世界贸易组织。 这两个在二次大战期间和之后

美国学生世界地理教材 第100期:低于海平面的国家(2)

Another city of Belgium beginning with a B is Bruges. 比利时还有一个以B开头的城市是布鲁日（Bruges）。 Bruges has many streets of water with bridges crossing them, and boats instead of carts, although there are paved streets also. 布

美国学生世界地理教材 第95期:你讲法语吗?(4)

Before Christ was born people believed there were many gods who were like good and bad fairies, 在基督诞生之前，人们相信世界上有很多神，这些神有的像善良的仙子，有的像邪恶的精灵， and statues were made of them

美国学生世界地理教材 第136期:极昼之地(1)

IN Through the Looking-Glass the story of The Walrus and the Carpenter starts this way: 在《镜中奇缘》这部童话小说里，海象与木匠故事的开头是这样的： The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: And this wa

美国学生世界地理教材 第91期:英格兰人的邻居(3)

Most of the people of Northern Ireland are Presbyterians like the Scots or Episcopalians like the English, 北爱尔兰的大部分人像苏格兰人一样，是长老会教徒；或者像英格兰人一样，是圣公会教徒， for their ancestors

美国学生世界地理教材 第89期:英格兰人的邻居(1)

Chapter 27 The Englishmans Neighbors 第27章 英格兰人的邻居 Here is the longest name I know. It has fifty-eight letters. It is LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH. 下面是我所知道的最长的名字，共有58个字母

美国学生世界地理教材 第81期:越洋之旅(3)

The captain knows from the way the compass points which way he must go to reach England. 船长通过罗盘指的方向知道要去英国应走哪个方向。 He doesnt follow the way the compass pointsthat would bring him to the Magnetic pole. 他并不

美国学生世界地理教材 第74期:橡胶和咖啡之国(3)

Men go through the Selvas and wherever they find a rubber-tree they cut notches in the tree trunk and fasten a cup underneath to catch the trees sap, 人们在热带雨林中穿行，无论在哪里，只要发现橡胶树，他们就在树干上刻一

美国学生世界地理教材 第65期:海盗的海洋(2)

But many of those ships bearing treasure never reached Spain. Piratessea robberslay in wait to rob the land robbers. 但是很多装满金银财宝的轮船永远没有到达西班牙。海盗海上的强盗埋伏以待，抢劫那些陆地上的强盗

美国学生世界地理教材 第62期:近在咫尺 远在天涯(2)

Why did ships want to get from one ocean to the other, anyway? 轮船为什么非要从一边海洋到另一边海洋去呢？ Why shouldnt those on one side stay on that side, and those on the other side stay on the other side? 为什么两边的轮船

美国学生世界地理教材 第67期:海盗的海洋(4)

Almost all vegetables and fruits in the World have sugar in their juice; they are sweet. 世界上几乎所有的植物和水果的汁液里都含糖，是甜的。 Some have a great deal, some have very little. 有些含有大量的糖分，有些则含

美国学生世界地理教材 第163期:丰饶之国(3)

There is a town at the top of the Holy Land with a name like a boy'sDan. 圣地的顶端有一个小镇，镇的名字像一个男孩子的名字但； Down at the bottom of the Holy Land is another town called Beersheba; 圣地的底端还有一个城

美国学生世界地理教材 第157期:沙漠之舟(2)

The camel follows the leader, almost as in the game, 骆驼具有模仿领头人的习性， for wherever the leader goes he goesso when a number of camels are used to carry loads long distances they are tied head to tail in a line, 差不多就像我们

美国学生世界地理教材 第169期:伊甸园(1)

Of course, you have heard of the Garden of Eden, haven't you? 你肯定听说过伊甸园，对不对？ When-I-was-a-boy I thought that when I was old enough to travel I should like to go and see it for myself. 小时候，我就想，长大了，能去

美国学生世界地理教材 第171期:伊甸园(3)

Though Nineveh and Babylon are gonetheir names are not even on the mapthere are today two big cities on the Tigris that are very much alive, with people living in them. 尽管尼尼微和巴比伦已经不存在了连它们的名字在地图上也找不