美国学生世界地理教材 第61期:近在咫尺 远在天涯(1)
Chapter 19 So Near and Yet so Far 第19章 近在咫尺,远在天涯 N-A-M-E-R-I-C-A and S-A-M-E-R-I-C-A are two names printed in large letters across my map of North America and South America. 我有一张北美洲和南美洲的地图,从地图的
美国学生世界地理教材 第62期:近在咫尺 远在天涯(2)
Why did ships want to get from one ocean to the other, anyway? 轮船为什么非要从一边海洋到另一边海洋去呢? Why shouldnt those on one side stay on that side, and those on the other side stay on the other side? 为什么两边的轮船
美国学生世界地理教材 第63期:近在咫尺 远在天涯(3)
This doctor found out that what made the Isthmus so unhealthful waswhat do you suppose?nothing but little mosquitos. 这个医生发现造成地峡如此有害于健康的罪魁祸首是你猜是什么呢?竟然只是小小的蚊子。 These mosqui
美国学生世界地理教材 第64期:海盗的海洋(1)
Chapter 20 Pirate Seas 第20章 海盗的海洋 I was once on a train leaving Baltimore when a man asked me where I was going. I told him I was going to Baltimore. 我有一次坐火车正要离开巴尔的摩,这时一个男子问我到哪去。我告
美国学生世界地理教材 第65期:海盗的海洋(2)
But many of those ships bearing treasure never reached Spain. Piratessea robberslay in wait to rob the land robbers. 但是很多装满金银财宝的轮船永远没有到达西班牙。海盗海上的强盗埋伏以待,抢劫那些陆地上的强盗
美国学生世界地理教材 第66期:海盗的海洋(3)
Another two days sailing south and I was on another island called Nassau, the capital of a group of islands called the Bahamas. 乘船往南又航行两天我就到了另一个叫做拿骚的岛屿,它是巴哈马群岛的首都。 In Nassau sponge
美国学生世界地理教材 第67期:海盗的海洋(4)
Almost all vegetables and fruits in the World have sugar in their juice; they are sweet. 世界上几乎所有的植物和水果的汁液里都含糖,是甜的。 Some have a great deal, some have very little. 有些含有大量的糖分,有些则含
美国学生世界地理教材 第68期:南美洲北部(1)
Chapter 21 North South America 第21章 南美洲北部 South American looks like a carrot, a turnip, a top, a funnel, a leaf, a fig, 南美洲看起来像一只胡萝卜、一个芜菁、一个陀螺、一个漏斗、一片叶子、一个无花果、
美国学生世界地理教材 第69期:南美洲北部(2)
In British Guiana far back in the wilds is a waterfall nearly five times as high as Niagara, 在英属圭亚那偏远的荒野有一个瀑布,几乎有尼亚加拉瀑布五倍高, yet so far away from everything that hardly any white men have eve
美国学生世界地理教材 第70期:南美洲北部(3)
They often fight, not with bows and arrows, but with huge blow-pipesas long as a man 他们经常打斗,使用的武器不是弓和箭,而是巨大的吹矢枪足有一人长 using clay balls or little darts which have been dipped in poison. 枪内
美国学生世界地理教材 第71期:南美洲北部(4)
Have you ever heard of a man named Simon Bolivar? 你听说过一个叫做西蒙 ?玻利瓦尔的人吗? Probably not, but in South America every boy and girl knows him as you know George Washington. 大概没有,但在南美洲,每个男孩女孩
美国学生世界地理教材 第72期:橡胶和咖啡之国(1)
Chapter 22 Rubber and Coffee Land 第22章 橡胶和咖啡之国 Moutains make rivers. If a continent were flatabsolutely flat and level like a tablethere would be no rivers. 山脉造就了河流。如果大陆是平的像桌面那样平坦那就没有
美国学生世界地理教材 第73期:橡胶和咖啡之国(2)
The land around the Amazon River is called Selvaswhich means woods. 亚马逊河附近的地区叫做热带雨林就是森林的意思。 It is not only woods but jungles and swamps, and it is very wild, hot, damp, and unhealthful. 不仅仅是森林,
美国学生世界地理教材 第74期:橡胶和咖啡之国(3)
Men go through the Selvas and wherever they find a rubber-tree they cut notches in the tree trunk and fasten a cup underneath to catch the trees sap, 人们在热带雨林中穿行,无论在哪里,只要发现橡胶树,他们就在树干上刻一
美国学生世界地理教材 第75期:白银之国和棉条之国(1)
Chapter 23 Silver Land and Sliver Land 第23章 白银之国和棉条之国 We give babies names when they are born, but sometimes when the babies grow up the names do not fit them. 孩子出生了,就要取个名字,但有些孩子长大后,名字