There are a few camels in Istanbul, but camels don't belong in Europe. 伊斯坦布尔有一些骆驼，但欧洲不产骆驼。 They have to be carried across the Bosporus from Asia, for a camel is said to be the only animal that cannot swim and can...
The Turks also built, close to each mosque, one or more candle-shaped towers, called minarets. 土耳其人还在每座清真寺旁建造至少一座形似蜡烛的塔楼，叫做宣礼塔。 About midway of a minaret is a balcony, and five times a d...
One dark night many years ago an army was approaching Constantinople, 很多年前，一个漆黑的夜晚，一支敌军正在接近君士坦丁堡。 but it was so dark the people in the city did not see it and did not know they were about to be at...
EVERY place is east of some other place. 每一个地方都在另一个地方的东边。 America is east of China. Europe is east of America. 美国在中国的东边，欧洲在美国的东边。 But the only place called THE East, with a capital T...
Long before the time of Christ, athletic meets used to be held in Greece once every four years. 在耶稣诞生前很久，希腊每四年举行一次体育大会， These were called Olympic Games, and champions in running and jumping and other spor...
Some one has said the reason the Greeks long ago made such beautiful statues and buildings was because they had such beautiful marble to work with; 有人曾说，希腊人很久以前就能创造出如此美丽的雕像和建筑物是因为有如此美...
They believed that there was a god of love and that there was a god of war and that there was a god of almost everything in the World. 希腊人相信有掌管爱情的神，有主管战争的神，还有主宰世界万物的神。 Greece is in two c...
THE first book I ever read was Aesop's Fables. 我读过的最早一本书是《伊索寓言》。 Aesop was a slave who lived in a little country called Greece. 伊索曾经是一个奴隶，生活在一个叫希腊的小国。 Aesop the slave wrote...
Bulgaria is an Iron Curtain country next to the Black Sea. 保加利亚是黑海边的一个国家， It has forests and mountains as well as farm land. 它有很多森林、山脉和农田。 In the forests live bears, wild-cats, and wild boars. 森林...
Fairy-tales and poems and music have been written about the Danube too. 也有童话故事、诗歌和音乐描写多瑙河， One of the most famous waltzes ever written is called The Blue Danube. 迄今为止最有名的华尔兹舞曲之一就是蓝...
