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,

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This book is for the child who: thinks heaven is in the sky and hell is under the ground; 这本书是写给这样的孩子:他认为天堂在天上,地狱在地下; has never heard of London or Paris and thinks a Dane is a kind of dog. 他从未

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In the little town where I was born, there lived an old, old man 在我出生的小镇上,住着一位很老的老人, whose chief claim to distinction was the fact that he had never in his whole life been ten miles away from home. 他在镇上很有

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Still farther north, a hop, skip, and a jump from the Colorado Canyon, in the corner of the State of Wyoming, 拉多大峡谷再往北不远处是怀俄明州,在怀俄明州的西北角有块地方, is a place that looks on the map like a little

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People who thought their farms had been spoiled by oil found that the oil was worth a fortune, 那些以为农田被油毁掉的人发现这种油有巨大的价值, worth much more than what they could make out of chickens and pigs, or corn and wh

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More US Students Choose College Overseas 更多美国学生选择海外大学 For VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Hunter Bliss, like more and more American students, left the United States to go to college. He told the BBC that th

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Chapter 1 第一章 The Setting of the Stage 人类历史舞台的形成 We live under the shadow of a gigantic question mark. 人类一直以来都生活在一个巨大问号的阴影下面 Who are we? 我们是谁? Where do we come from? 我们从哪

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When I was twelve or thirteen years old, an uncle of mine who gave me my love for books and pictures promised to take me upon a memorable expedition. 当我十二三岁的时候,我的那位引导我爱上书籍和图画的舅舅,答应带我做一

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In the hallowed halls of the most prestigious universities in the nation, there is an even more exclusive series of secret student societies that tap prospective members to join their prestigious organizations. The cause of numerous conspiracy theori

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去年,中国公民赴美签证成功率高达85%,美国共向中国公民签发各种签证超过80万个,并且对中国人签证没有配额。由于拒签率相当低,因为逾期滞留率相当低的缘故,所以美方能够给予更多签

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Chapter 5 第五章 The Nile Valley 尼罗河河谷 The beginning of civilization in the valley of the Nile 人类文明发源于尼罗河河谷 The history of man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food. 人类的历史也是一部人们四

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Chapter 25 第二十五章 Joshua of Nazareth 拿撒勒的约书亚 The story of Joshua of Nazareth Whom the Greeks Called Jesus 拿撒勒人约书亚,也就是希腊人所称的耶稣的故事 In the autumn of the year of the city 783 (which would

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Chapter 3 第三章 Prehistoric man 史前人类 Prehistoric man begins to make things for himself. 史前人类开始为自己制造工具 Early man did not know what time meant. 早期的人类不懂得时间的含义, He kept no records of birth

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Chapter 30 The Norsemen 第三十章 北欧人 Why the people of the tenth century prayed the lord to protect them from the fury of the Norsemen 为什么10世纪的人们会祈祷上帝保护他们免遭北欧人怒火的侵害 In the third and four

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Incidentally it explains why even to-day Moslem soldiers will charge into the fire of European machine guns quite indifferent to the fate that awaits them and why they are such dangerous and persistent enemies. 这一点也能解释,为什么到了今

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His descendants, the Merovingians, had continued to take little bits of imperial territory 他的子孙建立起墨罗温王朝,并一点一滴地蚕食罗马帝国的领土。 until the year 486 when king Clovis (the old French word forLouis) felt

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Twice the Carolingian lands were divided, by the treaties of Verdun in the year 843 and by the treaty of Mersen-on-the-Meuse in the year 870. 卡罗林王朝的国土被两次瓜分,一次是根据公元843年的凡尔登条约,一次是根据公元

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The Danes had been driven away and now (it was early in the eleventh century) another Saxon king, Edward the Confessor, was on the throne. 丹麦人终于被赶走,一个撒克逊人做了国王,他被叫做忏悔者爱德华。 But Edward was no

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These dukes and counts and barons had sworn to be faithful to the king who had given them their feudum (hence our word feudal,) 这些公爵、伯爵、男爵们统统宣誓效忠于封邑 的国王(封邑为feudum,这也是封建制(feudal)一

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Chapter 28 Mohammed 第二十八章 穆罕默德 Ahmed, the camel-driver, who became the prophet of the arabian desert and whose followers almost conquered the entire known world for the greater glory of allah,the only true god 赶骆驼者阿哈默德

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