When you land in France you see French flags flying; 到了法国,你就看到法国国旗在各处飘扬; they are red, white, and blue, the same colors as our own flag, but their flags have only three stripes and the stripes are up and down, 法国...
Chapter 28 Parlez-vous Franchise 第28章 你讲法语吗? I konw a boy who has never been to school and who has never had a French lesson in his life, but who can speak French fluently. 我认识一个小男孩,他从没有上过学,也从没有...
Most of the people of Northern Ireland are Presbyterians like the Scots or Episcopalians like the English, 北爱尔兰的大部分人像苏格兰人一样,是长老会教徒;或者像英格兰人一样,是圣公会教徒, for their ancestors...
The Scots have a peculiar musical instrument called a bagpipe. 苏格兰人有一种很独特的乐器叫做风笛。 Its a bag made of a pigs skin and it has a pipe to blow it up as you would a balloon, 风笛的主要部分是一个用猪皮做成的...
Chapter 27 The Englishmans Neighbors 第27章 英格兰人的邻居 Here is the longest name I know. It has fifty-eight letters. It is LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH. 下面是我所知道的最长的名字,共有58个字母...
Chapter 26 The Land of the Angles (continued) 第26章 盎格鲁人的土地(续) I once asked an Englishman if he lived in London.Why does every American think that every Englishman lives in London? 我曾经问过一个英国人是不是住在伦...
The oldest building in London, built long before the Great Fire, is one which from its name sounds like only part of a building. 伦敦有座最古老的建筑物在伦敦大火发生之前很早就建起了,它的名字听起来像某个建筑物的...
There is, however, another great building in London that does have a dome like our Capitol. 然而,在伦敦另有一栋大楼还真有和我们的国会大厦一样的圆屋顶。 But that building is a church and it is called St. Pauls. 但那个楼...
Chapter 25 The Land of the Angles 第25章 盎格鲁人的土地 England is an island. 英格兰是一个岛。 Angles once lived on the islandno, not Angelsbut people called Angles. 盎格鲁人曾经住在这个岛上不,不是天使,而是叫做...
But it isnt rough weather that the captain fears most of all. 但船长最担忧的并不是恶劣的天气。 It is a sea fog, especially when he knows there are other ships near,for when there is a fog he cannot see his way at all. 他怕的是海上...