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Tales From The Thousand And One Nights词汇提示1.eunuch 太监2.blemish 瑕疵3.anguish 痛苦 4.smashing 打碎5.collapsed 倒塌6.castrated 阉割7.concubine 妃子8.rags 破布9.mosque 清真寺10.dehydrated 脱水的11.chamber 房间12.dizzy 发晕13.fainted 昏厥14.eloquent 有口才的原文Story 15: Tale of the Second Eunuch, KafurThere was once a slave named Kafur.He told one lie every year and caused problems for his owners.The slave-traders told the buyer about his blemish, that he told a lie every year.On the twelfth month with his new owner, he was asked by his owner to go home from the fields and get something from his wife.The slave went to the house and told the wife that an old wall fell on her husband and his friends in the field.The wife and daughters cried and screamed.In her anguish, she destroyed her home and furniture.Kafur helped her, smashing plates and cups.He ran to tells his owner in the field that his wife and children were dead.He said that a wall had collapsed on them in the house.It was discovered that Kafur tricked them both.The owner was very upset.Kafur reminded him that he was purchased with a known fault, that of being a liar.The owner was so nervous about what else the slave could do or say to make his life worse.The slave was taken to the Governor.He was beaten, bruised, his head shaved and he was castrated.He was made a eunuch and sold for a profit.Eventually he ended up in the palace.His name was now Ghanim.He shared his story with two other slaves.The third slave shared a story about a box that contained riches and it was still not buried.Very early the next morning Kafur found the box and opened it.Inside the box there was a beautiful young lady who was drugged.She seemed to be asleep.She was wearing expensive jewelry.Her name was Kut al-Kulub.He took her out of the box and the fresh air made her cough.She woke up.He helped her return home.<p...

Tales From The Thousand And One Nights词汇提示1.sharpers 骗子2.jeweler 珠宝商3.genealogist 谱系学家4.smashed 打碎5.lineage 血缘6.bushy 浓密7.immunity 豁免8.adulterer 奸夫9.swindle骗子原文Story 10: The Story of the Three SharpersAlong time ago there were three sharpers.Everyday they searched through the garbage piles to find some coins or pieces of silver.Every night they spent everything they found on food, drugs and a candle.Three days passed and they found nothing.They were very hungry.They decided to beat each other up outside of the palace to get attention.The guards saw them and brought them in.The King questioned them.They said they were masters of special skills.One said he was a jeweler, one said he was a genealogist of horses, and one said he was a genealogist of humans.The King decided to test them.He gave them apartments and food.When the time came for them to prove their skills, he called for them, one by one. The jeweler was asked to examine a precious stone.He told the King there was a worm, or defect in the stone.The King ordered the stone to be smashed and they discovered there was really a defect.The King asked how he knew this and the jeweler said, "The sharpness of my sight."Next,the King was given a black horse.He asked the horse specialist if the horse was a pure breed.He said no, the mother was a buffalo cow.The King asked how he knew this and he said, "The horse's hoof is round and the hooves of bison are long and shaped like a duck."The King asked the third sharper about the genealogy of his wife, the Queen.He told the King that the Queen's mother was a gypsy.The King asked how could he have known this and he answered that he noticed her lineage from the shape of her eyes and her bushy eyebrows.The King asked to know about his own lineage.The third Sharper made the King promise him immunity if he told him.The King agreed.The King was told he was not true King; he was the son of a cook.The King's mother confessed it was true, saying she could not get pregnant from her husband the King, so she took the cook as a lover to get pregnant.The King, her husband, never knew.The King said, "I am not fit to be a king, I am the son of an adulterer."He gave his king...

Blackbeard's Treasure by Jenny Dolly词汇提示1.skull 头骨2.cheat 欺骗3.stocks 手足枷4.First Mate 大副5.crow's nest 桅杆瞭望塔6.rectangular 矩形原文Chapter IV: Blackbread's True LoveThe men on Captain Pike's ship were very different from the British sailors of the Queen Anne.They played cards all night, and if they lost, they fought with each other.They were only sailing to the Bermuda Triangle to find Blackbeard's treasure and steal anything else they could.Their ship looked like the Queen Anne, except for the flag flying above the sails.It was black, with a white skull and cross bones on it.This was the mark of the pirates.Some of the men were about to throw a man into the sea for cheating at cards when Captain Pike stopped them."What's going on here? Are you trying to kill each other before we find the gold?""This one was trying to cheat us at cards. We can't have that, can we?""That we can't my friend, but we're waiting for a treasure much bigger than the one you play cards for. Put him in the stocks for a day and let him think about things there."The stocks were two pieces of wood with three round holes in them.The men placed the prisoner's head and hands in the holes.Then,they lowered the top and they locked him inside.He had to stand up the whole time.Captain Pike was standing next to his First Mate, Santiago, at the wheel of the ship.Santiago asked him about the danger of finding Blackbeard's Treasure."They say no one can take Blackbeard's treasure. Why do you think you can?""I think that Blackbeard and I are the same kind of pirate. He wanted everything,and he knew how to get it. When I see that treasure, when I put my hands on it,there's nothing that can make me lose it."There was a pirate in a small seat above the sails, looking at the ocean through a telescope.This was called the crow's nest, and he was the first to see Blackbeard's ship sailing ahead of them.He whistled to the men below:"Ship,straight ahead!"Captain Pike put a telescope up to his eye.He saw Blackbeard's empty ship, then yelled to the man who was steering."Go straight for it! This is what we're looking for!"Captain Pike and some of his men went aboard the empty ship, but they couldn't find any treasure.Santiago thought they made a mistake."Maybe this isn't Blackbeard's ship. It could be a ship lost at sea.""There's only one way to find out."Captain Pike went below to Blackbeard's cabin and Santiago followed him.It was dark and the captain had to light a candle.He walked with the candle to one of the cabin walls where there was a round, old picture of a woman.<p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto...

听前提示一、三遍英文,一遍中文,再一遍英文。二、从听懂的词入手,理解句子含义。三、根据中英文意思,听不懂的多听几遍。原文181.With your approval, I would like to offer him the job.如果您同意,我想给他这份工作。182.This book is for students whose native language is not Japanese.这本书是给母语不是日语的学生写的。183.I don't want to work under these conditions.我不想在这些条件下工作。184.She was more beautiful than all the others.她比其他人都漂亮。185.Where do you suppose you'll spend your vacation?你觉得你会去哪儿度假?186.She bought six yards of cloth fora dress.她买了六码的布做衣服。187.Don't be afraid of making mistakes when you speak English.当你说英语的时候不要怕犯错。188.I don't want to hear any more of your complaining.我不想再听你抱怨了。189.She may be a nurse. I am not sure.她可能是护士。我不太肯定。190.The air is thin at the top of a high mountain.山顶上空气稀薄。

词汇提示1.minstrel 吟游诗人2.dialect 方言3.melodies 旋律4.folk songs 民歌5.moderately 适当地原文Stephen Foster ? American SongwriterBefore radio and television, movies and recordings, entertainment was often a family or community matter.Someone in the family could play a musical instrument, or a neighborhood musician would play for small gatherings.In addition, there would be travelling groups of musicians, actors and clowns who would go from town to town.In nineteenth century United States, one of the most popular forms of entertainment was the minstrel show.Black slavery was still permitted in the southern states until 1865.Even after that date, the lives of many blacks working on large farms or plantations did not change much.They did hard physical labor in the fields, had little control over their lives, and very little time to relax with their friends.Foster,who was born in 1826, made this situation the background for many of his songs.White musicians would try to imagine the feelings of black men and women working on the plantations.They would write songs in the dialect or speech patterns that they thought black slaves used.In these songs, the black people would be talking about their hardships, falling in love, playing music and dancing, and finally growing old and dying.They would play musical instruments, like the banjo, a small four-stringed guitar, which black people played often.As a small boy, Stephen Foster had sometimes been taken to a black church by his family's black servant, Olivia Pise.Here he first heard the melodies that inspired his own songs.Only a couple of Foster's songs are based directly on "Negro spirituals;" but many of his songs have the natural simplicity and emotional power of folk songs.The youngest member of a large family, Foster showed his musical talent at an early age.Growing up in an energetic business family Stephen was expected to become a businessman.And,for a while, he worked as a book keeper.Foster attended minstrel shows and tried to get the performers to sing his songs.Sometimes the performers would steal his songs and publish them under their own names.Copyright laws were weak and rarely enforced,so some music publishers would just go ahead and publish a song without paying the songwriter.Since Foster hoped to make a living as a songwriter, this was a problem.Foster's first hit song was "Oh!Susanna" published in 1848.It became popular with the thousands of men from all over the United States who were heading west to the Californian gold-rush of 1849.Unfortunately,as an unknown song writer Foster received no money from his early songs.He seems to have given them out right to the music publishers, just to establish his reputation.Foster's name, however, was soon widely known,and in 1849 he was able to afford to give up book keeping, and marry the daughter of a Pittsburgh physician.During the next five years, he earned a moderately good income from songwriting.In 1851, a daughter Marion was born.Foster wrote many of his best-known songs at this time - "Old Folks at Home"in 1851;"My Old Kentucky Home" in 1853, and "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair" in 1854.Difficulties in Foster's marriage began fairly soon.<p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font...

听前提示一、每期提供10个单词,每个单词都会有2-3个例句,方便理解记忆。二、每个单词和句子都会重复5遍,其中第2遍为慢速,有助于识别。三、本材料的整体难度较低,可以用来听力磨耳朵和单词查漏补缺。Day 321.Accommodation 住宿We need accommodation for seven adults and two children.我们需要为七名成人和两名儿童提供住宿。Hotel accommodation is included in the price of the tour.旅游价格中包含酒店住宿。They're not sure they could provide accommodation for the whole group.他们不确定他们能否为整个团体提供住宿。22.Accompany 陪伴May I accompany you home?我可以陪你回家吗?He suggested that I accompany him to the party.他建议我陪他去参加聚会。Are you sure you don't want me to accompany you?你确定你不想让我陪你吗?23.According to 根据Everything proceeds according to plan.一切都按计划进行。I did everything according to your instructions.我按照你的指示做了所有事情。According to the weather forecast, it will rain tomorrow.根据天气预报,明天会下雨。24.Account 帐户Here's my account number.这是我的账号。They don't have a bank account.他们没有银行账户。I'd like to open a savings account.我想开一个储蓄账户。I withdrew $200 from my savings account.我从储蓄账户中提取了200美元。25.Accurate 准确的He is very accurate in his work.他的工作非常准确。This data isn't accurate at all.这些数据根本不准确。Your analysis of the situation is accurate.你对情况的分析是准确的。<p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-heigh...

在喜马拉雅已支持实时字幕关注公众号“高效英语磨耳朵”获取文稿和音频词汇提示1.archduke 大公2.assassinated 刺杀3.dispute 争端4.intensely patriotic 强烈爱国5.enthusiastically 热情地6.filthy trenches 肮脏的战壕7.eagerness 渴望原文How the First World War StartedDuring the summer of 1914,many people in the Europe felt very optimistic about the future.Modern technology was improving people's lives.Political freedom was gradually increasing in many countries.New artistic styles and scientific discoveries were being made.But later the summer,a terrible war begun.In the early twentieth century,the various countries of Europe competed with each other in an attempt to be the most powerful country on the continent.In each country,many of the political leaders wanted to control more land,more people,and more resources.The First World War began when the archduke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated.Austria-Hungary wanted to punish the assassin,who was from the small country of Serbia.This led to a serious dispute,and soon other countries were involved.Within a few weeks,a war had began.On one side were Germany and Austria-Hungary,and on the other side were Russian,France and Britain.The people in these countries at first welcomed the news of a war.Many people were intensely patriotic,and supported the war effort with thinking carefully about the reasons for the war.Some people thought that the war would bring adventure and glory to their lives,and they cheered enthusiastically in the streets.After the war started,it soon became clear that it was a terrible disaster.In the Western part of Europe,the opposing side fought many bloody battles.Soldiers in both sides lived in filthy trenches that had been dug out of the ground.Sometimes,hundreds of thousands of men were killed in battles that lasted only a few days.In most cases,these battle did not result in large gains or losses of territoryThe war continued for more than four years.When the war was finally over,millions of people finally had been killed.Many people realized that their eagerness to fight against other countries had led them into a greater disaster.This disaster did not end when the war ended in 1918.During the next thirty years,there would be many violent revolution in Europe,and a second major war that would be even more worse than the first.Today,people in most European countries no longer view other countries as enemies.They have no interest in fighting war with their neighbors.<p style="color:#333333;font-weight:n...