美国学生世界地理教材 第123期:一英里高的一堆灰(1)
Lesson 37 第37章 A Pile of Ashes a Mile High 一英里高的一堆灰 A PILE of ashes is not usually very beautiful, and if it is in your back yard it is usually very ugly. 一堆灰,通常是不美的。如果它在你家后院里,通常会觉得
美国学生世界地理教材 第124期:一英里高的一堆灰(2)
The rock that the volcano melts flows over the top like a pot boiling over and runs down the sides in streams that gradually harden into rock as they cool off. 那些被熔化了的岩石,就像因沸腾而溢出水壶的开水,小溪般从山顶四
美国学生世界地理教材 第125期:一英里高的一堆灰(3)
No one knows when Vesuvius may do the same thing again, but the people in Naples never seem to think of such a thing; 没有人知道维苏威火山会在哪一天再次制造这样的悲剧,但是那不勒斯人似乎从不考虑这件事, they
美国学生世界地理教材 第126期:战争和童话故事(1)
Lesson 38 第38章 Wars and Fairy-Tales 战争和童话故事 Though Italian is the language of music, the people of Germany are quite as musical as the Italians. 尽管意大利语是音乐的语言,德国这个民族像意大利人一样喜爱音乐
美国学生世界地理教材 第127期:战争和童话故事(2)
Most of these castles are now in ruins, because it is too hard to get to them and to keep them in repair, 现在,这些城堡大部分已经成为废墟,因为很难再到城堡对它们进行维修, and no longer can any one treat the poor peo
美国学生世界地理教材 第128期:战争和童话故事(3)
There are millions of birds called auks which fly so low and so thick over the land that the Eskimos catch them with a net as you would catch butterflies. 那里有一种叫海雀的海鸟,非常多,成百上千万,它们成群成群地飞得很低
美国学生世界地理教材 第129期:战争和童话故事(4)
The winds are so terribly strong in parts of Greenland that a tent has to be anchored down by heavy stones to keep it from blowing away. 在格陵兰岛,有些地方会刮剧烈的大风,所以你得用很重的石头来固定帐篷以免它被风刮
美国学生世界地理教材 第130期:鱼儿峡湾瀑布和森林(1)
HAVE you a good imagination? 你的想象力丰富吗? I mean, when there are clouds in the sky, can you see giants or galloping horses or rabbits with long ears or other things? 我是指,当天上有云朵时,你能看出是巨人?飞奔的骏
美国学生世界地理教材 第131期:鱼儿峡湾瀑布和森林(2)
The Norwegian people catch herring in nets, then they salt, smoke, or dry them to make sure they will keep almost forever without spoiling. 挪威人用网打捞鲱鱼,然后,用盐腌制、用烟熏制、或晒干风干,用各种方法保存鲱鱼
美国学生世界地理教材 第132期:鱼儿峡湾瀑布和森林(3)
In the warm water of the fiords the herring schools have a fine recess until a whale or a fisherman comes along. 峡湾温暖的水域就成了大群鲱鱼的安乐窝,直到鲸或渔民的到来。 The northest city in the World is in Norway and t
美国学生世界地理教材 第133期:鱼儿、峡湾、瀑布和森林续(1)
THE fishiest city in the World is in Norway on a fiord. 世界上最有鱼味的城市就在挪威的一个峡湾里, The city and the fiord are both called Bergen. 这个城市和这个峡湾都叫卑尔根。 The fishermen from the Lofoden Is-lan
美国学生世界地理教材 第134期:鱼儿、峡湾、瀑布和森林续(2)
Leif Ericson lived about a thousand years ago. 莱弗.埃里克松生活在一千年前, He and his men sailed across the ocean and landed in America five hundred years before Columbus discovered America, 他和他手下的人早在哥伦布发现美
美国学生世界地理教材 第135期:鱼儿、峡湾、瀑布和森林续(3)
On the tops of the mountains there are vast fields of snow and ice like frosting on a huge cake, 山顶有大片大片雪和冰,就像一块巨大的蛋糕上撒满了糖霜。 but as this snow and ice sinks down to the valleys it melts and the wat
美国学生世界地理教材 第136期:极昼之地(1)
IN Through the Looking-Glass the story of The Walrus and the Carpenter starts this way: 在《镜中奇缘》这部童话小说里,海象与木匠故事的开头是这样的: The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: And this wa
美国学生世界地理教材 第137期:极昼之地(2)
The land at the top of the World is often called The Land of the Midnight Sun, because the sun shines at midnight. 世界之巅常常被称作午夜太阳之地,因为午夜时分太阳依然在天空; It might just as well be called The Land of