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作者维吉尔·M·希利尔,东方神鸟 出品
出版社天津人民出版社
ISBN9787201145037
出版时间2019-03
装帧平装
开本32开
定价39.8元
货号26921814
上书时间2024-12-05
美国卡尔佛特学校前校长维吉尔·这本地理教材不同于一般课本的地方在于,以孩子将来真的会进行环球旅行为前提。这个与众不同的前提,使其在内容选取上不以
《写给学生的世界地理》为精校英文版,同时提供配套英文朗读音频免费下载。在品读精彩故事的同时,亦能提升英语阅读水平,下载方式详见图书封底博客链接。
维吉尔·M·希利尔(
01 THE WORLD THROUGH A SPY-GLASS
02 THE WORLD IS ROUND, FOR I’VE BEEN ROUND IT
03 THE INSIDE OF THE WORLD
04 THE ENDLESS PARADE
05 THE 13 CLUB
06 A CITY BUILT IN A SWAMP
07 MARY’S LAND, VIRGINIA’S STATE, AND PENN’S WOODS
08 THE EMPIRE STATE
09 YANKEE LAND
10 FIVE BIG PUDDLES
11 THE FATHER OF WATERS.
12 THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
13 THE COVERED WAGON
14 WONDERLAND
15 THE ’EST, ’EST WEST
16 THE ’EST, ’EST WEST (CONTINUED)
17 NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS
18 THE WAR-GOD’S COUNTRY
19 SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR
20 PIRATE SEAS
21 NORTH SOUTH AMERICA.
22 RUBBER AND COFFEE LAND
23 SILVER LAND AND SLIVER LAND
24 THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE OCEAN
25 THE LAND OF THE ANGLES.
26 THE LAND OF THE ANGLES (CONTINUED)
27 THE ENGLISHMAN’S NEIGHBORS.
28 PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAIS?
29 PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAIS? (CONTINUED)
30 THE LAND BELOW THE SEA
31 CASTLES IN SPAIN
32 CASTLES IN SPAIN (CONTINUED)
33 THE LAND IN THE SKY
34 THE BOOT TOP.
35 THE GATES OF PARADISE AND THE DOME OF HEAVEN
36 THE DEAD AND ALIVE CITY
37 A PILE OF ASHES A MILE HIGH
38 WARS AND FAIRY-TALES.
39 THE GREAT DANES.
40 FISH, FIORDS, FALLS, AND FORESTS
41 FISH, FIORDS, FALLS, AND FORESTS (CONTINUED)
42 WHERE THE SUN SHINES ALL NIGHT
43 THE BEAR
44 THE BREAD-BASKET
45 THE IRON CURTAIN COUNTRIES
46 THE LAND OF THE GODS
47 THE LAND OF THE NEW MOON
48 THE SHIP OF THE DESERT
49 A “ONCE-WAS” COUNTRY
50 A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY
51 THE “EXACT SPOTS”
52 THE GARDEN OF EDEN
53 THE LAND OF BEDTIME STORIES.
54 THE LION AND THE SUN
55 OPPOSITE-FEET
56 OPPOSITE-FEET (CONTINUED)
57 THE WHITE ELEPHANT.
58 WHERE THE THERMOMETER FREEZES UP
59 A GIANT SEA-SERPENT
60 PICTURE POST-CARDS
61 MAN-MADE MOUNTAINS.
62 AFRAID OF THE DARK.
63 ZOO LAND
64 THE END OF THE RAINBOW
65 FORTUNE ISLAND
66 CANNIBAL ISLANDS
67 JOURNEY’S END
美国卡尔佛特学校前校长维吉尔·这本地理教材不同于一般课本的地方在于,以孩子将来真的会进行环球旅行为前提。这个与众不同的前提,使其在内容选取上不以
《写给学生的世界地理》为精校英文版,同时提供配套英文朗读音频免费下载。在品读精彩故事的同时,亦能提升英语阅读水平,下载方式详见图书封底博客链接。
维吉尔·M·希利尔(
The World Through a Spy-Glass
You have never seen your own face.
This may surprise you and you may say it isn’t so-but it is so.
You may see the end of your nose.
You may even see your lips if you pout out—so.
If you stick out your tongue you may see the tip of it.
But you can’t go over there, outside of yourself, and look at your own face.
Of course you know what your face looks like, because you have seen it in a mirror; but that’s not yourself—it’s only a picture of yourself.
And in the same way no one of us can see our own World—all of it—this World on which we live.
You can see a little bit of the World just around you—and if you go up into a high building you can see still more—and if you go up to the top of a high mountain you can see still, still more—and if you go up in an airplane you can see still, still, still more.
But to see the Whole World you would have to go much higher than that, higher than any one has ever been able to go or could go. You would have to go far, far above the clouds; way, way off in the sky where the stars are—and no one can do that, even in an airplane.
Now you cannot see the World in a mirror as you can see your face. So how do we know what the World looks like ?
A fish in the sea might tell her little fish, “The World is all water—just a
huge tub; I’ve been everywhere and I know.” Of course, she wouldn’t know anything different.
A camel in the desert might tell her little camels, “The World is all sand—just a huge sand pile; I’ve been everywhere and I know.” A polar bear on an iceberg might tell her little polar bears, “The World is all snow and ice—just a huge refrigerator; I’ve been everywhere and I know.”
A bear in the woods might tell her little bear cubs, “The World is all woods—just a huge forest; I’ve been everywhere and I know.” In the same way, once upon a time, people used to tell their little children, “The World is just a big island like a huge mud pie with some water, some sand, some ice, and some trees on it, and with a cover we call the sky over us all; we’ve been everywhere and we know.”
When some inquisitive child asked, “What does the flat World like a mud pie rest on?” they really truly said, “It rests on the backs of four elephants.” But when the inquisitive child asked, “And what do the elephants stand on?” they really truly said, “On a big turtle.”
Then when the inquisitive child asked, “What does the turtle stand on?” no one could say—for no one could even guess farther than that—so the turtle was left standing—on nothing.
That’s the old story that parents long ago used to tell their children as to
what the World was like. But just suppose you could go way, way off above the clouds; way, way off in the sky, sit on a corner of nothing at all, dangle your feet over the edge and look down at the World far, far below. What do you suppose it would really look like? I know—and yet I have never been there. The World from way off in the sky and through a spy-glass would look just like a full moon—round and white; not round like a plate, but round like a huge snowball. Not exactly white, either, but bright—for the sun shines on this big ball, the World, and makes it light just as the headlight on an automobile shines on the road at night and makes the road light. Of course, the sun can shine on only one side of this big ball at a time; the other side of the World is dark, but the World keeps turning round and round in the sunlight.
If you looked at the World through a telescope—you know what a telescope is: one of those long spy-glasses that make things seem closer and bigger—as men look at the moon, you would see on one side of the World two big patches that look like queerly shaped shadows and on the other side of the World twice as many big patches, four queerly shaped shadows. These patches which look like shadows are really land and are called by a long name: con-ti-nents. These continents have names, and if their names were printed across them in letters a thousand miles high—which they are
not—so that the man with a spy-glass could read them, he would read on one side of the World
NORTH AMERICA
SOUTH AMERICA
and if he waited until the World turned round, until the other side showed in the sunlight, as I’ve seen the World do in “the movies, ” he would read on this continent EUROPE and on that continent ASIA and on the other continent AFRICA, and the smallest one would have the longest name, AUSTRALIA. At the very bottom would be ANTARCTICA.
We call one side of a piece of money “the head, ” because there is usually the head of some one on that side, and the other side we call “the tail, ” as that is opposite from the head. It would be easy to tell which side of the World was which if we could call one side heads and the other tails. But there are no heads or tails on the World—only these queer shadows— so we use two big words instead of “heads” and “tails” to tell which side of the World is which. We call one side the “Western Hemisphere” and the other side we call the “Eastern Hemisphere.” Whew! Why don’t they call it something easy?—well, let’s call it “Half-a-Ball, ” for that is what Hemisphere means. The Western Half-Ball has two continents and the Eastern Half-Ball has four continents.
The tip top and the very bottom of the World are called the Poles, although there are no poles. Around the top and bottom Pole it would be all white—snow and ice—for the Poles are so cold ther e is snow and ice there all the time.
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