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世界小史

   (A Little history of the World),是英国艺术史家恩斯特·贡布里希(E. H. Gombrich)写给儿童的一本通俗历史读物。该书集知识性与趣味性于一体, 语言通俗易懂、生动有趣。全书总共不到20万字, 却为读者展示了5000年的世界风貌

  • 世界小史 第1章:从前 第一章 从前 All stories begin with Once upon a time. 所有的故事都以从前 开头。 And that's just what this story is all about: what happened, once upon a time. 那恰好是这个故事所要讲的:从前发生了什么? Once you we
  • 世界小史 第2章:起源 Have you ever tried standing between two mirrors? You should. 你可曾试着站立在两面镜子之间?你不妨试一试。 You will see a great long line of shiny mirrors, each one smaller than the one before, 你会看见发亮的镜子的一条
  • 世界小史 第3章:档案馆 It's like a bottomless well. Does all this looking down make you dizzy? 它就像一个无底的深井。从上往下看,你会头晕目眩吗? It does me. So let's light a scrap of paper, and drop it down into that well. 我会的。那么让我们
  • 世界小史 第4章:记忆之光 But we only catch glimpses, because our light is now falling faster and faster: 1,000 years, 5,000 years, 10,000 years. 但是我们只在一瞬间看见了这情景,因为我们的火光越坠越快,越坠越快,1千年,5千年,1万年。
  • 世界小史 第5章:尾巴 And how do we know that? We sometimes find their bones, deep in the ground. 我们怎么知道的?我们有时在地下深处找到它们的骨骼。 When I was a schoolboy in Vienna I used to visit the Natural History Museum, 当我在维也纳上小
  • 世界小史 第6章:巨型动物 Now, try to imagine 1,000 million years! 现在试着想象10亿年(有多长)! At that time there were no large animals, just creatures like snails and worms. 当时还没有巨型动物,只有蜗牛和虫这样的生物。 And before then t
  • 世界小史 第7章:回到地球 And before that? Before that, not even the sun, our good old sun, was there. 那么在那以前呢?在那以前,甚至太阳,我们可爱又古老的太阳也不存在。 Only weird and amazing giant stars and smaller heavenly bodies, whirling
  • 世界小史 第8章:伟大的发明家 Chapter 2 The Greatest Inventors of All Time 第二章 前所未有的最伟大的发明家 Near Heidelberg, in Germany, somebody was once digging a pit when they came across a bone, deep down under the ground. 有一次有人在德国海德堡附近挖
  • 世界小史 第9章:头盖骨 On another occasion, but still in Germany in the Neander valley a human skull was found. 在另一个地方,但仍在德国,在尼安德尔山谷,人们发现了一块人的头盖骨。 And this was also immensely interesting because nobody ali
  • 世界小史 第10章:下颌骨 But now you are going to say:Stop! That's not what we agreed. 但现在你一定会说,停!那不是我们当初同意的。 When did these people live, what were they like, and how did they live? 这些人生活在什么时候,他们长什么样
  • 世界小史 第11章:祖先 These were our ancestors who may have already been using stones as tools more than 150,000 years ago. 这是我们的祖先,他们也许在15万年前就已经开始用石头当工具了。 They were very different from the Neanderthal people who a
  • 世界小史 第12章:发明 Yet with all of these things there must have been a first time. 可是这一切必定有过第一次出现的时候。 Someone must have made the discovery. 这必定是某个人发明的。 Isn't it an amazing thought that, one day, a prehistoric ma
  • 世界小史 第13章:建造房屋 But people didn't yet know how to build houses. 但是人们当时还不知道如何建造房屋。 Not a pleasant thought, since at that time it was often intensely cold at certain periods far colder than today. 一想到这点令人很不愉快,因
  • 世界小史 第14章:疼痛 Of course animals also make noises they can cry out when they feel pain and make warning calls when danger threatens, 当然动物在感到疼痛时也会叫喊,在有危险时发出报警呼喊声, but they don't have names for things as human b
  • 世界小史 第15章:猎获品 Rather like when we say 'Talk of the devil!' when someone we've been talking about turns up unexpectedly. 就像我们说:说曹操, 曹操到。的时候,当我们正在谈论的人意外出现。 After all, these animals were their prey, and wi
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