Lesson 37 第37章 A Pile of Ashes a Mile High 一英里高的一堆灰 A PILE of ashes is not usually very beautiful, and if it is in your back yard it is usually very ugly. 一堆灰,通常是不美的。如果它在你家后院里,通常会觉得...
There are no windows at all in the Pantheon, but there is a large hole in the top of the saucer called an eye 万神庙里没有一扇窗户,但是在茶碟的顶部有一个巨大的孔,这个孔朝向天,被称之为眼睛。 which looks towa...
St. Peters is so large that thirty services can be carried on at one time without one interfering with another. 圣彼得教堂大得可以一次同时举行三十个宗教礼拜仪式而不会彼此干扰。 Inside the church everything is huge, to...
Lesson 36 第36章 The Dead and Alive City 死亡而又活着的城市 Two thousand years ago you could start out on any road anywhere, and if you kept on going far enough 两千年前,如果你从地球上的任意一个地方的任意一条路出发...
Many of these beautiful works of art are kept in buildings that used to be palaces. 这些美丽的艺术品,其中很多都存放在原本是宫殿的建筑物里。 The palaces in Florence look more like prisons than palaces. 佛罗伦萨的宫殿看...
Im sick, said Mr. B. Mr. G. knows so much about building a dome, let him go on with it. 我病了,布先生说,吉先生很擅长建造圆顶,让他继续建下去吧。 So the people went back to Mr. G. and told him to go ahead. 于是人们回到...
It is like a jam of people all trying at once to get through a door: they get so wedged in that none can go through. 就像一大群人都要同时过一个门:他们就挤在一起了,谁也动不了,结果一个人也过不去。 But the dome...
Lesson 35 第35章 The Gates of Paradise and the Dome of Heaven 天堂之门和天国的穹顶 Down the length of Italy like the back of a sea monster is a ridge of mountains called the Apennines. 有一条山脉的山脊从北向南纵贯整个意大利...
The Venetians made their living in the first place out of two commonplace things right at handfish and salt. 威尼斯人最初用身边两样很普通的东西谋生鱼和盐,从此开始发迹。 That was the start of their fortune. There was als...
They are not live horses, yet they have traveled far. 它们不是活马,但却走过了很远的路。 They were made about the time of Christ, out of bronze, and they have been carried away by one ruler 这四匹马大约是在耶稣在世时用青...