THE STORIES of ROME

These 1)skyscrapers are built of mud there in the Yemen. They're over 400 years old. The reason they're so tightly packed together is not because of the cost of 2)real estate, it's a protection agains

悉数伦敦与奥运会的渊源

Have the Olympic Games ever been held in your country? Have the Olympic Games ever been held in your city? Right now, people who live in London are getting ready for the 2012 Olympics next year. London has already hosted the Olympics twice before and

事实：条条大路通罗马-All Roads Lead To Rome

Pre-Listening Vocabulary figurative: having a symbolic or metaphorical meaning; not to be taken literally literal: having a straightforward meaning; exactly as it sounds efficiently: quickly and easily; in the least amount of time All Roads Lead To R

洪恩环境英语第一册练习 Review Two

[00:00.00]Review Two.Hi!Let's begin with some pronunciation practice. [00:21.08]say each word after me. [00:25.91]city cook taco newscaster [00:38.95]Let's try that one again. [00:45.71]news newscaster actor hot dog [00:58.98]Let's do that again. [01

I Wanna Talk-A Trip to Italy 一次去意大利的旅行

Passage Transcript this summer i went to, Italy for what turned to be a three week trip with a friend of mine from college. it was a really a good experience. i have never been out of the country before and, for years i wanted to go. i had always wan

【一起闲话英语】一次去意大利的旅行—A Trip to Italy

Passage Transcript this summer i went to, Italy for what turned to be a three week trip with a friend of mine from college. it was a really a good experience. i have never been out of the country before and, for years i wanted to go. i had always wan

【听听测测】Model Test 69

As a traveller on a tight____, I was pleased to____ Vietnam, ____its central and southern part, Meccas for cash____ tourists. I started my 12 -day trip in Ho Chi Ming city or Saigon , which is the country's largest city. From there, I____ to Dalat, a

The Rise 罗马崛起 - 02

Rome's savagery was matched by its size. When the Colosseum was built, Rome was a city of a million people and growing. Not until London of the 19th century would a city approach this size again. What

The Rise 罗马崛起 - 01

Over 1,000 years after Rome's fall, the armies of the French emperor Napoleon descend on the city. Napoleon's forces have already battled their way through Europe, take Rome seems an afterthought. By

The Rise 罗马崛起 - 09

【 collation 】 As it approached the 5th century BC, Rome was emerging from its legendary past into the real world of recorded history. It was now a thriving province of the Etruscan world ruled by

CNN 2010-09-15

For almost all of you, the ride to school is free. What if you had to pay 400 dollars for it? It's a question we're looking at today on CNN Student News. My name is Carl Azuz. Let's get going. First up, America pays tribute to the nearly 3,000 victim

Rome's Chinese Community Mourns Deaths

Rome's Chinese Community Mourns Deaths The Chinese community in Italy wants justice and more security. The brutal killing, last week, of Zhou Zeng and his baby, Joy, was too much even for people who are used to keeping to themselves and not complaini

VOA标准英语2012--Eternal City Shines in 'To Rome With Love'

Eternal City Shines in 'To Rome With Love' The film begins with the camera moving past ancient ruins, classic fountains and modern skyscrapers while the 1950's hit, Volare, plays in the background. A Roman policeman directing the notorious traffic tu

世界小史 第137期:井然有序

After the time of Alexander the Great, however, small wars against small towns ceased to satisfy them and they set about conquering the entire peninsula. 在亚历山大大帝以后的时期，他们不再满足于对小城邦进行小规模战争，他

世界小史 第133期:贵族

These were the patricians the word means something like 'city fathers' although in those days they weren't citizens as we know them, 这些人是patricians（贵族）这个词的意思大致相当于市议员但是你不可以把这个时代的市议员

世界小史 第153期:作战

War was their favorite pastime. 作战是他们得心应手的事。 After each victory they returned in triumph to Rome, led by their generals, with all their captives and their loot. 如果他们又一次打了胜仗，他们便在其统帅率领下，

世界小史 第173期:维斯佩申

They fought with extraordinary determination and courage against the legions who were forced to lay siege to each Jewish town in turn to defeat them. 他们以坚韧不拔的毅力和极大的勇气与罗马军团作战，这些军团不得不长期围

美国学生人类历史 第109期:罗马帝国的衰亡(2)

But the underlying causes of the decay of the State, of which I have told you in a former chapter, had not been removed and reform therefore was impossible. 不过正如我在上一章讲过的，罗马帝国的根基已经锈蚀，造成它衰败的深

美国学生人类历史 第112期:罗马帝国的衰亡(5)

In the year 402 the Emperor fled to Ravenna, which was a sea-port and strongly fortified, 公元402年，西罗马皇帝逃往拉维纳。 and there, in the year 475, Odoacer, commander of a regiment of the German mercenaries, 这里是一座海港，城

美国学生人类历史 第120期:教会之兴(7)

The Lombards and Saxons and Slavs who succeeded the Goths were weak and backward tribes. 继任哥特人统治意大利的伦巴德人、撒克逊人和斯拉夫人，他们属于实力较弱的落后部落。 Under those circumstances it was possibl