罗布·霍普金斯Rob Hopkins:不用石油的转变世界

罗布?霍普金斯Rob Hopkins提醒我们：世界赖以生存的石油即将耗尽。为转变到没有石油的世界，他给出了自己的解答-转变响应。过没有石油的生活，牺牲我们的舒适生活，建立一个完全不依靠石

广告大餐 Budlight开启赛车世界

欣赏独具创意的英语广告！边听边看边学，品味世界名牌的风范，从细微之处感受英美社会的文化。

经典英文歌曲：《Wild World》狂野的世界

Wild World是二十世纪七十年代英国民谣摇滚歌手Cat Stevens(凯特斯蒂文斯)的代表作，也是传唱度最广的一首，出自1970年的经典专辑《Tea for the Tillerman》(农夫的茶)，许多歌手翻唱过这首歌，并演绎

美国学生世界地理教材 第215期:动物王国(2)

Other animals looking for food will come along too and must be scared away from the bait or killed. 其他寻找食物的动物也会出现，见到诱饵一定会被吓跑或被猎杀。 The first animal to come along is usually the hyena. 最先出现

美国学生世界地理教材 第214期:动物王国(1)

Have you ever been to the zoo or the circus? 你去过动物园或马戏团吗？ How would you like to live in a zoo where the animals were not in cages? 如果有个动物园，动物都不关在笼子里，你愿意住在里面吗？ The land in A

美国学生世界地理教材 第202期:风景明信片(3)

Their stockings are like mittens with a place for the toe, 他们的袜子像连指手套，四脚趾相连与脚拇指分开。 and they would no more think of stepping on the mats with their shoes on than you would of getting into bed with your sho

美国学生世界地理教材 第205期:人造山(1)

All the continents begin with an A except one. 地球上所有大洲的英文名字，除一个洲之外，都是以A开头的。 Asia is the largest continent. Africa is the next largest. 亚洲是最大的洲。非洲是第二大洲。 But Africa w

世界小史 第149期:富贵还是贫穷

Now they were carefully collected and valued twice as highly as before. 现在人们将它们收集起来并加倍珍惜它们。 And to become a government official, you had to know them all. 想成为一名中国政府官员，你必须熟读这些古

世界小史 第131期:亚历山大

Alexander only went east. Although 'only' may not be quite the right word! 亚历山大只向东方进军。只当然并非是个正确的词！ But the lands that lay to the west of Greece did not tempt him just a couple of Phoenician and Greek colo

世界小史 第130期:多里安人和伊安尼尔人

Egypt was then governed by a family of generals the Ptolemies. 接着一个将领家族统治了埃及托勒密王室。 The Seleucids ruled Mesopotamia, and the Attalids Asia Minor. 塞琉古王室统治了美索不达米亚，安提克王室统治了

世界小史 第126期:原路返回

Of course it would have been far the simplest thing to do, since those regions had already been conquered. 当然原路返回要省事得多，因为沿路各地区都已被占领。 But Alexander wanted new sights and new conquests. 但是亚历山大

世界小史 第120期:戈尔迪乌姆城

It went like this. 故事是这样的。 In the city of Gordium there was a temple, and in it an old chariot whose shaft was held fast by a strap that was tightly and intricately knotted. 在戈尔迪乌姆城的一座神庙里有一辆旧马车，辕杆

世界小史 第119期:马其顿人

A king like this was soon as popular with the Greek soldiers as he was with the Macedonians. 军队里的希腊人不久便和马其顿人一样喜爱这样一位国王。 They were more than willing to fight for him. 他们乐意为他而战斗。 S

世界小史 第118期:科林斯市广场

So he had given away everything he owned and now sat, almost naked, in a barrel in the market square in Corinth where he lived,所以他散尽了全部家产，几乎赤身裸体地坐在科林斯市广场上的一只桶里。他居住在那里，as

世界小史 第112期:国家在战斗

As is usually the case with wars, not only Athens but the whole country was exhausted by the conflict, and the victors were no exception. 正如战争中常会发生的那样，不仅是雅典，整个国家在战斗中耗尽了精力，胜利者也是

世界小史 第111期:艰苦的战争

Greece's age of splendor was short-lived. 希腊的辉煌时期很短暂。 The Greeks could do everything but live in peace with one another. 希腊人什么都能，但是他们不能与其他城邦和睦相处。 Above all, it was Athens and Spart

世界小史 第107期:礼仪

He thought that everything in life ran more smoothly if people did. 他认为如果人们这样做了什么事情就都好办了。 Almost by itself, as it were, without the need to think too hard about it. 它简直就是自动进行的，用不着许

世界小史 第97期:摆脱苦难

Suddenly he realized what he had been seeking all those years. 他突然意识到他在这些年里寻找的是什么。 It was as if an inner light had made everything clear. 这就像一种内心的光亮，使一切清晰起来。 Now, as the 'Enl

世界小史 第92期:森林里冥想

But it would be wrong to say that the Indians were a cruel people. 但是说印度人是一个残忍的民族是错误的。 On the contrary, their priests were serious and profound thinkers,相反，他们的祭司是很严肃、深沉的思考者，

世界小史 第79期:当地居民

Let us now take a closer look at two of Greece's most important cities: Sparta and Athens. 现在让我们仔细看看希腊两个最重要的城市：斯巴达和雅典。 We already know something about the Spartans: they were Dorians, who, when th