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

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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

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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、

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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Since that time roads and railroads have been made all the way across the country; 从那时起公路和铁路开始修建起来,横贯整个国家; great cities have been built where once was only wilderness;and the wild Indians have been tamed.

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People who thought their farms had been spoiled by oil found that the oil was worth a fortune, 那些以为农田被油毁掉的人发现这种油有巨大的价值, worth much more than what they could make out of chickens and pigs, or corn and wh

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Chapter 14 Wonderland 第14章 仙境 ALICE IN WONDERLAND is a fairy-tale, but there is a real Wonderland out in the West. One of the wonders is a river. 爱丽丝漫游仙境是一个童话故事,但是远在西部真有一个充满奇迹的仙境。

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A giant hop and skip north from the Grand Canyon would bring one to the State of Utah, 离大峡谷的北面不远处就是犹他州, where there is a great lake, but this Great Lake is different from the five Great Lakes. 那里有一个很大的湖

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Still farther north, a hop, skip, and a jump from the Colorado Canyon, in the corner of the State of Wyoming, 拉多大峡谷再往北不远处是怀俄明州,在怀俄明州的西北角有块地方, is a place that looks on the map like a little

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Chapter 15 The Est, Est West 第15章 之最最多的西部 A LAND where they have the b-est, the bigg-est, the fin-est, the highest, 据说有个地方,那里有最好、最大、最优、最高、最美的东西, the loveli-est of everythingso

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Besides Death Valley, California has another valleybut this is one of the loveliest valleys. 除了死亡谷,加利福尼亚还有一个山谷但这个是最美丽的山谷之一, It is called the Yosemite. It is a very deep trough, and streams o

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The city of San Francisco on the coast north of Los Angeles is nearly as large as Los Angeles. 洛杉矶北面的沿海城市圣弗朗西斯科市(旧金山)几乎和洛杉矶一样大。 It might have been larger, but not so many years ago a ter

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Chapter 16 The Est, Est West (continued) 第16章 之最最多的西部(续) Here is a riddle for you. What is it that has no legs and yet can jump as high as the Washington Monument? Ill tell you the answer in a minute. 有个谜语给你猜:什

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The oldest fruit in the World is the apple. It is the fruit that grew in the Garden of Eden, 世界上最古老的水果是苹果。它是长在伊甸园里的水果, but people believe the apple that Eve gave Adam was a very poor one compared to t

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