英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国：彩云之南-9

Ailaoshan is of the Hani tribe from the mountain village of Mengsong. Roasted, the tender shoots he gathers will make a tasty dish. The Hani have many uses for the different bamboos they grow and find in the forest around. Though flexible enough to b

英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国：彩云之南-10

Bamboo's tough reputation is such that another bamboo specialist was known by the Chinese as the iron-eating animal. The giant panda is famous for its exclusive diet. Giant pandas are thought to have originated in Southwest China millions of years ag

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-1

The eye of all the world， the ancients called it, the heart of a lost empire that had lasted for a thousand years and more. Saint Sophia, the church of the divine wisdom, this was their crowning glory---the glory of Byzantium. The vanished empire o

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-2

Istanbul, one of the very greatest of Islamic cities, the monuments of the conquering Turkish Sultans whod ruled here since 1453, dominating its skyline. Underneath there are much older ghosts, brushed each day by people of the living city, the ruins

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-3

A lonely ancient relic in a modern city. In the year of our Lord 330, on a lovely May morning, A great procession came down this road whichs the highway of an ancient city called Byzantium, and the procession was led by the great Roman Emperor Consta

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-4

This was the extent of Constantines ambition, the late Roman Empire, with Constantinople, not Rome, as its capital, and in the far north, in Germany, the city of Trier, a great imperial garrison. It still shows something of what ancient Constantinopl

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-5

Its only a little building, but it was actually the heart of ancient Palmyra. Its the senate, the Oval Office where government was conducted, where the town elders met, where plots were hatched, all that sort of thing. Of course, in Constantine's gre

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-6

Once though, Constantinople held the palace of all palaces, the palace of the Christian empire. Church, hippodrome and palace, Constantine had made a sacred engine that would power Byzantium for ever. To protect the holy city of Constantinople, the e

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-7

Southwest of Istanbul, three days sailing on an ancient slave ship, is the Isle of Marmara, its very name in stone. In the first centuries of Byzantium, slaves in their tens of thousands worked in these marble hills. How the Byzantines love marble! I

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-8

This was once a marble square on a highway at the middle of Constantinople. I didnt suppose the Turks on modern Istanbul think much about ancient Byzantine victories. Yet, therere still some fragments here of that great memorial column that made it a

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-9

Just like the people of modern Istanbul, the Byzantines loved fresh bread and fresh vegetables. While the bread，at least the grain for it, they brought from their province of Egypt, the vegetables they grew themselves, in little plots beside their

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-10

And they put it into this tank here. Now this tank has already got water in it. So as they pour the olive oil in, it flows to the surface, all of the impurities go down to the bottom. And see this little trench here? A vital piece of gourmet equipmen

英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国 -7

As well as the school, the cave houses eighteen families, together with their livestock. These could be the only cave-dwelling cows on earth. With schoolwork over, its playtime at last. In Southern China, caves arent just used for shelter; they can b

英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国 -10

Winding between Zhangjiajie's peaks, crystal clear mountain streams are home to what is perhaps China's strangest creature. This bizarre animal is a type of newt, the Chinese giant salamander. In China, it is known as the baby fish because when distr

英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国 -8

If catching fish in the dark is impressive, imagine eating a slippery minnow with no hands while hanging upside down. Dawn, over the karst hills of Guilin. These remarkable hills owe their peculiar shapes to the mildly acid waters of the Li River, wh

英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国 -5

The cave rivers course is channeled by the beds of limestone. A weakness in the rock can allow the river to increase its gradient to flow in, providing a real challenge for the cave explorers. The downward rushes halted when the water table is reache

英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国 -9

Geng's net is a strange tubular contraption with a closed-off end. More than a hundred fishermen make their living from the lake. Its mineral-rich waters are highly productive and there are nets everywhere. The next morning, Geng returns with his son

英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 10

The interior Beethoven, the private space Beethoven is a different Beethoven and the public space Beethoven, the concert hall Beethoven. And one of Beethoven's string quartets is said that this should never be played in public. These were pieces that

英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 08

It's in the Eroica that for the first time everyone is convinced this really is Beethoven's voice. The extraordinary thing about the premiere of Beethoven 3rd was that it was done of course in a very small room, in the Lobkowitz's palace, but I think

英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 07

In 1796 or 97, Beethoven had suffered a serious illness, possibly meningitis. My ears continue to hum and buzz day and night, He wrote, I can hear sounds, it's true, but can not make out the words. He first noticed that his hearing was going, when he