The first Chinese characters were drawings of physical objects. 第一批汉字是各种物体的线条图画。 Some characters have been simplified and others have been made more difficult over time. 随着时间的推移，有些汉字简化了，有...
Though these kinds of characters indicate meanings, one of their shortcomings is that they do not show how they should be pronounced. 尽管这些字可以表意，但缺点就是它们显示不出自己的发音。 Therefore, a method was developed...
The story of Braille 布莱尔的故事 Usually, when we talk about reading, we think of using our eyes to see letters written in ink on paper. 通常，我们说到阅读，想到的是用眼睛去看用墨水写在纸上的字母。 However, this i...
In 1821, a soldier visited the school and showed the students a system for passing messages at night during times of battle. 1821年，一名士兵访问了这所学校，向学生们展示了战争期间在夜间传递信息的方法。 His system u...
The blind can easily recognize Braille with the fingers. 盲人可以轻松地用手指辨别盲文。 They can also easily write in Braille with a special typewriter. 他们还可以通过一种特殊的打字机，轻松地用盲文写字。 Today,...
Lost civilizations 失落的文明 Day 1, 15th July 第1天－7月15日 I feel lucky to have won a place on this trip. 能够赢得这次旅行的一个名额，我感到很幸运。 We are in Italy now, and tomorrow we are visiting Pompeii. 我们现在...
Day 3, 17th July 第3天－7月17日 Today I saw the ancient Roman city of Pompeii as it was 2,000 years ago. How amazing! 今天，我亲眼看到了2000年前保存下来的古罗马城市--庞贝。真是令人称奇啊！ The city was forgotten f...
Years later, researchers were able to use these empty spaces to produce true-to-life figures of the people who had died in the disaster. 很多年以后，研究者可以用这些人形空当制造出与那些在灾难中死去的人十分逼真的塑像...
Day11, 25th July 第11天一7月25日 An scholar from the local cultural institute, Professor Zhang, told us that around the years 1900 the European explorer Sven Hedin discovered the ruins of the Loulan Kingdom. 当地文化研究所的一位学者张...
Ancient Greek statue found in Xinjiang 在新疆发现的古希腊雕像 Researchers announced the discovery of a small statue in northern Xinjiang, China, recently. 研究人员最近宣布了一个发现，在中国新疆北部发现了一个小塑像...
In 334 BC, he took his army, now with 42,000 men, into the Middle East and then Egypt, defeating every army that stood in his path. 公元前334年，他率领当时已达4万2千人的军队进入中东，接着是埃及，兵锋所至，所向披靡。...
Alexander the Great spread the Greek culture from Europe to Africa and Asia, influencing the world for centuries to come. 亚历山大大帝把希腊文化从欧洲带入非洲和亚洲，影响了未来几世纪的世界。 The statue of the Greek s...
The father of Western philosophy 西方哲学之父 The word 'philosophy' means 'love of wisdom'. 词汇哲学的意思是爱智慧。 Philosophy can be thought of as a way of looking at the world around us, or of answering the great queations of lif...
To understand how this can be true, we must understand how Socrates taught. 为了了解这是否是真实的，我们必须了解苏格拉底是如何教课的。 Socrates taught by asking questions. Through this, he challenged his students to devel...
