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

世界小史 第194期:日耳曼公主

Only two years later, in 453, Attila married a German princess and died on the same night. 此后不久阿提拉便死了，死于453年，死在他与一位日耳曼公主成婚的那一天。 Had the Pope not saved the Roman Empire of the West on t

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

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

美国学生人类历史 第96期:罗马帝国的故事(6)

As for Sulla, he became Dictator, which meant sole and supreme ruler of all the Roman possessions. He ruled Rome for four years, and he died quietly in his bed, having spent the last year of his life tenderly raising his cabbages, as was the custom o

美国学生人类历史 第100期:罗马帝国的故事(10)

Octavian remained in Rome, but Antony went to Egypt to be near Cleopatra with whom he too had fallen in love, as seems to have been the habit of Roman generals. 渥大维留在罗马，而安东尼去了埃及。似乎罗马将军都有爱江 山更爱

英语听力：自然百科 埃及艳后

Her name is synonymous with beauty, power, intrigue and ultimately tragedy. In 69 BC, Cleopatra was born into Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, a dynasty in decline and under the protection of Rome. At the age of 18, she assumed the throne along with her yo

【英语语言学习】克莉奥帕特拉七世

Im Christopher Cruise. And Im Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the life of one of the most famous and powerful women in history. She was a goddess, a queen, and a skilled diplomat and negotiator. She was a g

世界小史 第156期:普通城市居民

As you can imagine, many tried. If two rivals fought for power, 你可以想象，许多人都做过这样的尝试。 one might have the army and the patricians on his side while the other had the support of the plebeians and poor peasants. 有时一个

美国学生人类历史 第90期:罗马帝国的兴起(3)

All the little citystates once more began to quarrel with each other as they had done in the good old days. 所有的希腊城邦再度陷人无休止的相互争吵中，一如它们在光荣的旧时代的所为。 The Romans, who had little unders

世界小史 第181期:神奇的人物

Among them were some remarkable men, one of whom was the Emperor Trajan. 其中也不乏神奇的人物，如皇帝图拉真， He lived about 100 years after Christ and, long after his death, people were still talking about his justice and his gentl

世界小史 第180期:边境要塞

Among the frontier guards any number of gods were worshipped the Persian sun god Mithras, for example, and not long after, the unique and invisible god of the Christians. 此外这些驻守边境的军队也崇拜基督徒的惟一的看不见的神。

世界小史 第174期:基督徒

If you weren't a Christian, a Jew or a close relative of the emperor, life in the Roman empire could be peaceful and pleasant. 谁不是基督徒，不是犹太人或不是皇帝的近亲，谁就能在当时的罗马帝国过上很安逸很舒适的生

美国学生人类历史 第82期:罗马和迦太基(10)

The war which followed (the so-called first Punic War) lasted twentyfour years. It was fought out on the high seas and in the beginning it seemed that the experienced Carthaginian navy would defeat the newly created Roman fleet. Following their ancie

美国学生人类历史 第85期:罗马和迦太基(13)

They wanted action. Something must be done and must be done quickly. A popular hero by the name of Varro, the sort of man who went about the city telling everybody how much better he could do things than slow old Fabius, the Delayer, was made command

美国学生人类历史 第88期:罗马帝国的兴起(1)

Chapter 23 第23章 The rise of 罗马帝国的兴起 Rome How Rome happened 罗马帝国是如何形成的 The Roman Empire was an accident. No one planned it. 罗马帝国的产生纯属偶然。没有人策划它， It happened.No famous general o

美国学生人类历史 第110期:罗马帝国的衰亡(3)

But they were not willing to engage in warfare for the benefit of an ambitious emperor who aspired to glory by way of a foreign campaign in the land of the Parthians or the Numidians or the Scots. 但他们不愿为罗马帝国打仗，因为那不过是

美国学生人类历史 第114期:教会之兴(1)

Chapter 27 Rise of the church 第二十七章 教会之兴 How Rome became the center of the Christian world 罗马如何成为基督教世界的中心新教徒到来 The average intelligent Roman who lived under the Empire had taken very little inte

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