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London&New York听歌学 1 Englishman in New York" by Sting I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on the side And you can hear it in my accent when I talk I'm an Englishman in New York See me walking down Fifth Avenue A walking cane here at my side I take it everywhere I walk I'm an Englishman in New York I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York If "manners maketh man" as someone said Then he's the hero of the day It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile Be yourself no matter what they say I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety You could end up as the only one Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society At night a candle's brighter than the sun Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run If "manners maketh man" as someone said Then he's the hero of the day It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile Be yourself no matter what they say I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York New York Introduction For travelers, Upstate New York is a great place to unwind: The mountains of the Cats kills and the Adirondacks provide cool greenery to those weary of big-city concrete; Sar atoga Springs offers restorative spas and a place where high society and high culture c an settle down beside the rich dirt of the racetrack; and the tranquil waters of the Fing er Lakes present the perfect vista to contemplate over a glass of New York wine. Not every corner of Upstate is intended as relaxation therapy, though. You can go dow nhill skiing on the state's many slopes or exercise your learning skills at museums and historic sites. And merely trying to see Niagara Falls from every available vantage point will require vacationers to be in top-notch sightseeing condition. Immigrants from all over Europe flooded into the city, spreading through the state and the nation. And as commerce and the population swelled, it became the nation's large st city, with towering skyscrapers and crowded streets. Throughout the 20th century, it was the pacesetter for urban America. In this century, following the terrorist attack th at brought down the World Trade Center, the world could see the mettle, determination and heart of the people who have made New York City the amazing place it is. London Introduction If you're a first-timer, you may arrive in London expecting a city that overflows with p omp and pageantry. And yes, we'll admit it: We did tear up the first time we stepped i nto St. Paul's Cathedral. But that's only a small slice of today's London. This cosmopolit an city has everything from Bengali markets to Belgian restaurants to hand-penned Bea tles lyrics. at the British Library. You can ogle orchids at Kew Gardens, crown jewels at the Tower and spectacular views of the city from a London Eye "pod" -- all in a day. I t may help to have an interest in the arts or royalty, but you don't have to be an avid theatergoer or a history buff to thoroughly enjoy yourself. Best of all, London is the ki nd of place you will want to visit again and again, and each time you return, it will ha ve something new to offer. Paris听歌学英语 2 Francis Cabrel/Octobre Paris Introduction Most visitors to the "City of Light" describe it in superlatives: Its atmosphere is the mo st romantic, its shops are the most chic, its restaurants beyond compare. We agree. To us, there are very few cities in the world as wonderful as Paris. Whether you're in Paris for work or for fun, this is the one city where it's a sin not to i ndulge yourself. How can an art lover pass up the Musee d'Orsay or a day at the Louv re? How can a serious shopper not make a pilgrimage to Rue du Faubourg St. Honore -- or perhaps to the Marais? And how can anyone who enjoys food not plan at least on e very special meal? chic n.别致的款式(尤指妇女的服饰) adj.别致的 ==================== indulge v.纵容 ==================== Louvre 罗浮宫[法国巴黎](或译卢浮宫现为国立美术博物馆) ; n.<英>=louver ==================== pilgrimage n.朝圣 vi.朝拜, 朝圣 ==================== faubourg n.郊外, 近郊 Norway听歌学英语 3 Place Nearby by Lene Marlin from Norway I entered the room Sat by your bed all through the night I watched your daily fight I hardly knew The pain was almost more than I could bear And still I hear Your last words to me. Heaven is a place nearby So I won't be so far away. And if you try and look for me Maybe you'll find me someday. Heaven is a place nearby So there's no need to say goodbye I wanna ask you not to cry I'll always be by your side. You just faded away You spread your wings you had flown Away to something unknown Wish I could bring you back. You're always on my mind About to tear myself apart. You have your special place in my heart. Always heaven is a place nearby So I won't be so far away. And if you try and look for me Maybe you'll find me someday. Heaven is a place nearby So there's no need to say goodbye I wanna ask you not to cry I'll always be by your side. And even when I go to sleep I still can hear your voice And those words I never will forget Norway Introduction Norway is Europe's great parkland: a dramatic mix of mountains, seas, forests and fjor ds. While the country has tidy cities, historic buildings and distinctive artists, nature is clearly its prime attraction. We think it's one of the loveliest countries in the world, su mmer or winter, and the prime travel destination in Scandinavia. The country has astonishing variety: The serene rural landscapes around Oslo are nothi ng like the deep fjords along the western coast, and the countryside along the zigzaggi ng roads to Bergen could not be more unlike the stark, barren land around Alta or the sunny coves of the south coast. Petra听歌学英语 4 Enigma---Beyond The Invisible Petra Introduction This ancient rose-colored city in the Wadi Musa Canyon is one of the Middle East's grea test historical and architectural treasures. Carved from solid red sandstone by the Naba taeans some 5,000 years ago, it's unlike anything you have ever seen (unless, of cours e, you've seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which case you'll recognize it im mediately -- much of the movie was shot around Petra). Once you've arrived in the area by car or bus, you'll need to leave your vehicle and w alk or ride a horse or camel through a 2-mi/3-km narrow pass called the Siq. The pass (or wadi) leads you to more than 800 tombs and other impressive structures. Don't m iss the temple, the treasury (Il Khaznech), the monastery and the Royal Tombs. A 45- minute walk into the desert will bring you to the High Place of Sacrifice, an ancient sac rificial altar as stately and fearsome as its name. (Bring plenty of water if you plan to t ake this hike.) The pathway is dotted with all kinds of other structures -- obilisks, tom bs, altars, etc. Another worthwhile walk is a loop that passes the Lion Fountain, Tomb of the Roman Soldier and Triclinium (be sure to go inside), and the Garden Tomb -- all ow an hour and a half. Be sure to stop and take in the view from the top of the last h ill. Bedouins who live at the ruin site often sell souvenirs and beverages in the most un likely nooks and crannies of the complex. Even if you opt out of these mini-excursions, a visit to Petra demands a minimum of s everal hours. Fortunately, there are a number of nearby hotels (some fairly luxurious) and rest houses, so you can take your time seeing the sprawling old city. We prefer to spend at least a full day at Petra so we can enjoy the dramatic views that occur durin g early morning and late evening light. (If possible, stay overnight during a full moon - - it's a fabulous sight.) Just north of Petra are a number of other places of archaeological and historical signific ance. Al Barid, often called a "miniature Petra," is another complex of tombs, temples, residences and other carved-rock buildings that were used by the Nabataeans and the r egion's traveling merchants. At Beidha is an excavated village dating back several thou sand years. Some scholars believe that its settlers were among the first humans to evo lve beyond the primitive hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Farther up the road is the hilltop castle of Shobak, a 12th-century fortress built by the Crusaders. Within its crumbling walls are ruins of churches, wells, baths and even an ol ive press. The Dana Nature Reserve, outside of Shobak, is one of Jordan's rare green a reas (with more than 500 species of flora) and is home to gazelles, hyena, jackal and other animals. The park contains campgrounds and hiking trails. Petra is 120 mi/195 k m south of Amman. sandstone n.[地] 沙岩 ========== Petra 约旦的皮特拉 ========== treasury n.财政部, 国库 ========== altar n.祭坛, (基督教教堂内的)圣坛, 祈祷祭拜的地方 ========== Bedouin n.贝多因人(一个居无定所的阿拉伯游牧民族) ========== excavate v.挖掘, 开凿, 挖出, 挖空 ========== crusader n.十字军战士, 改革者 ========== Jordan n.约旦(位于西南亚的国家), 约旦河 ========== campground n.野营地, 露营场所 ========== 玫瑰城 rose-colored city ========== Hawaiian Islands听歌学英语 5 Blue Hawaii 小野丽莎 On our last visit to the Big Island, we stood at twilight and watched glowing red lava fl ow into the ocean just a short distance away. It was a close-up look at the way these islands were formed -- and the way they are still forming. With volcanoes like Mt. Kilauea squirting out new land like toothpaste out of the tube, Hawaii, quite literally, is growing. In fact, there's an expanding volcano near the Big Isl and that's not far below the surface of the ocean. One day it will become the newest H awaiian island. That will take some time. Meanwhile, there's already enough beauty and activity in Ha waii to fill more vacations than we could ever take. With so much to choose from, first -time visitors need to be selective. Our recommendation is to settle first on the Hawaii you want to see. It might be beaches, luaus and nightlife; it might be rare orchids and hikes in the rain forest; it might be quiet countryside, small towns and scenic drives. Whatever the combination, there will likely be an island or islands best suited to your d esires. Japanese Ryokan听歌学英语 6 Japanese Ryokan For westerners whose idea of luxury is usually tied up with crescent drives, liveried ser vants, and grand stairways, a first-class Japanese inn may seem almost perverse in its simplicity and understatement. Often the entrance is nothing more than a sliding door at the end of a stone path, or perhaps a broad opening along one side of a cobbled all eyway. Inside, the room for which you may have paid $800 a night is defined by clean, uncomplicated lines: rectilinear straw mats; a table surrounded by cushions; a recesse d alcove with a hanging scroll as centerpiece. Unlike even the most basic American inn these days, the ryokan offers no swimming pool or weight room; no chocolates on yo ur pillow; no concierge for help with your dinner reservations. It is less a full-service h otel than a kind of spa for the senses. True, the room may be bare almost to the point of minimalism; but just as we can bes t see a flower in all its beauty when it rises out of the simplest dish, the surroundings truly do take on a kind of purity: the straw smell of the tatami mats on the floor; the clack of the sliding door against its stop; the crisp cleanliness of the inn’s cotton robe against your skin. While the maid serves green tea and perhaps a sweet on a leaf-shap ed wooden dish, your eyes rest themselves beyond the paper screens slid open to reve al the beautiful outdoor scene. It may be a garden, miniature in scale, where stepping- stones lead to a carp pond an arm’s reach away; it may be a vista of cliffs with the se a beyond, or snow-capped Fuji in the distance. But it is always utterly private, no thre at of human intrusion. Tranquility and repose are the inn’s principal offerings. And then there is the bath: sometimes separate public baths for men and women, but often a private bath of cedar in a little cedar room, where drops of moisture from the steam glisten on the ceiling. You wash first, crouched upon a tiny wooden stool on the tile floor. When you finally venture to put your foot in, the water is so hot you are una ble to bear it for long—so hot, in fact, that when you take your foot back out, you see m to be wearing a red sock. Over the course of a determined minute or two, you lowe r yourself into the water, which pours over the side in a smooth tongue onto the floor; afterward, when you rinse with cold water, you will feel that same glow that follows a massage. And of course, dinner—which, along with breakfast, is included in the price of your roo m. Around dusk the maids come to arrange the table: lacquered chopsticks on a porcel ain rest; beer glasses and sake cups; the steaming towel, rolled tight as a cigar, to wi pe your hands and face. The food come s, dish by dish on a variety of ceramics and lac querware, in an almost endless succession of delicate tastes. Then the table is cleared, and while you brush your teeth, the futons with their crisp white sheets are laid in th e center of the room. There in the dark, with the straw smell of the mats and the drone of cicadas, you may even struggle to stay awake; not that you aren’t tired, but to sleep is to give it all up, to bring on the following morning, when you must leave. Like one of those paradoxes from a Zen fable, solitude can be its own kind of stimulation. crescent n.新月, 月牙 adj.新月形的, 逐渐增加的 ================= understatement n.保守的陈述, 掩饰 ================= tranquility n.宁静 ================= lacquer n.漆, 漆, 漆器 vt.用漆涂于...,使面光泽 ================= sake n.日本米酒 ================= chopsticks n.筷子 ================= lacquerware n.[总称]漆器 ================= futon n. 蒲团 ================= drone n.雄蜂, 嗡嗡的声音, 懒惰者, 靶标 vi.嗡嗡作声, 混日子 vt.低沉地说出 ================= cicada n.蝉 ================= paradox n.似非而是的论点, 自相矛盾的话 ================= Venezuela's Tepuis听歌学英语 7 Angle's wings by Westlife I would die for you Lay down my life for you The only thing that means everything to me 'Cause when you're in my arms You make me prouder Than anything I ever could achieve And you make everything that used to seem so big Seem to be so small since you arrived On Angel's Wings, an angelical formation Angel's wings, like letters in the sky Now I know no matter what the question Love is the answer, it's written on Angel's Wings And I often wonder why, someone as flawed as I Deserves to be as happy as you make me So as the years roll by I'll be there by your side I'll follow you wherever your heart takes me Cause you make everything that used to be so big Seem to be so small since you arrived On Angel's Wings, an angelical formation Angel's wings, like letters in the sky Now I know no matter what the question Love is the answer, it's written on Angel's Wings Now anyone who's felt the touch of heaven in their lives Will know the way I'm feeling looking in my baby's eyes That's why I can't bear to be too far away I know that God must love me cause he sent you to me on Angel's Wings Venezuela's Tepuis "The unearthly vegetation was...fleshy and lurid, so green the air was green." —David Nott It’s often called the lost world, after Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 fantasy novel. By any name, eastern Venezuela’s tepui country is indeed rich in fantasy and adventure, in str ange and spectacular scenery, in legend and legendary treasure. There’s a primeval, ot her-worldly feel to tepuis—huge, flat-topped, sheer-walled table mountains that tower o ver a 500-mile area of rumpled green savanna and forest. Imagine mesas of the Ameri can Southwest ballooned to mile-high size and gone to bush: wrapped in spun-sugar cl ouds, fringed with the exotic foliage of the tropics, and fractured by hundreds of waterf alls. Some have yet to feel the tread of human feet. In Conan Doyle’s novel, adventure-scientists discover a tepui inhabited by dinosaurs, ap elike “missing links,” and other evolutionary leftovers. Fiction, obviously, but possessing a certain logic. To Conan Doyle, these table mountains were islands in time, so walled off from the world that, like the Galapagos, life evolved here on its own terms, immun e to evolutionary battles that raged elsewhere. In fact, tepuis do harbor unique species: tiny toads that neither swim nor hop, insectivorous pitcher plants, and other flora and fauna that occur nowhere else. The area’s exotic topography has also nourished enduring tales of fist-sized gold nugget s and diamonds waiting to be plucked. Conquistadors searched here for such treasure o ver four centuries ago, as did Sir Walter Raleigh. In the 1920s, American bush pilot Ji mmy Angel claimed to have gathered 75 pounds of nuggets from a single tepui-top str eam in a few days; he spent the rest of his life vainly trying to relocate that river. In t he process, he came across the waterfall that bears the name —the worlds highest, at 3, 212 feet—and got his single-engine plane mired in muck after landing above it on the t undralike top of Auyan-tepui. Though flat, the tops of Auyan-tepui are sometimes corrugated into sandstone mazes s o intricate that you could get lost in them. Some boast sculpture gardens: balanced sla bs in gravity-defying arrays and multi-ton monoliths named for their shapes—the Nun, Crocodile, the Shaman. Pools, caves, and enormous sink-holes draw climbers and spelu nkers bold enough to take them on; hikers can challenge sharp and abrasive rock, shin -bashing bromeliads, numbingly cold sloughs. Little wonder that, today, many tepui visi tors come and go by helicopter. I’ve stood atop Auyan-tepui—Roaring Mountain, in the language of the local Pemón Indi ans—and straddled the stream that feeds Angel Falls, watching it break free from its ro cky girdle to plunge more than half a mile, straight down. I’ve seen clouds race up Au yan’s awesomely sheer sides while the water streams down. Even thought I’ve been th e first to stand there, I sensed the area’s Edenic feel, its primeval allure. And at the talus-lined base of Auyan-tepui, I walked to the very bottom of Angel Falls, looked up...and barely felt a mist. The drop is so great that all that falling water basic ally vaporizes on the way down. And so, a metaphor for tepui country: Stony reality or gossamer fable? Like its surroundings, Angel Falls evaporates into sheer magic. Sahara听歌学英语 8 tears/齐豫 All alone I have started my journey To the darkness of darkness I go With a reason,I stopped for a moment In this world full of pleasure so frail Town after town on I travel Pass through faces I