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...
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...
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...
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、...
Almost all vegetables and fruits in the World have sugar in their juice; they are sweet. 世界上几乎所有的植物和水果的汁液里都含糖，是甜的。 Some have a great deal, some have very little. 有些含有大量的糖分，有些则含...
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...
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...
Chapter 20 Pirate Seas 第20章 海盗的海洋 I was once on a train leaving Baltimore when a man asked me where I was going. I told him I was going to Baltimore. 我有一次坐火车正要离开巴尔的摩，这时一个男子问我到哪去。我告...
This doctor found out that what made the Isthmus so unhealthful waswhat do you suppose?nothing but little mosquitos. 这个医生发现造成地峡如此有害于健康的罪魁祸首是你猜是什么呢？竟然只是小小的蚊子。 These mosqui...
Why did ships want to get from one ocean to the other, anyway? 轮船为什么非要从一边海洋到另一边海洋去呢？ Why shouldnt those on one side stay on that side, and those on the other side stay on the other side? 为什么两边的轮船...
