《地球的故事》英语简介

The Feelings I Want to Express You
• 1."Van Loon's Geography" is a great geographical book. • 2.If you are interested in geography, you can try to read it, I believe it's good for you; if you don't like or even you hate geography, you can try to read it as well, maybe you will be interested in geography. • 3.Believe or not, good books will make you kinder and wiser.
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Anam ['æ næ m] 安南（越南东部地区的旧称） Malacca [mə'lækə] 满喇国（马六甲） China ['tʃaɪnə] 中国 Korea [kə'riə,kɔ(:)'riə] 朝鲜半岛 Mongolia [mɔŋ'gəuliə; 'mɔngəuliə] 蒙古 Manchukuo ['mæ n'tʃu:'kwəu] 满洲国（由日本帝国扶植的傀儡政 权，现已不存在） The Japanese Empire [ðə ,dʒæpə'ni:z 'empaiə] 日本帝国 the Philippines [ðə 'filipi:nz; ðə fili'pi:nz] 菲律宾 the Dutch East Indies [ðə ,dʌtʃ i:st 'indiz] 荷属东印度群岛 Australia [ɔ:'streiljə; ɔ'streljə] 澳大利亚 New Zealand [nju: 'zi:lənd] 新西兰 The Islands of the Pacific [ði 'ailənds ɔv ðə pə'sifik] 太平洋群岛 Africa ['æfrikə] 非洲 America [ə'merikə] 美国
About the Writer : Van Loon
• Name: Hendrik Willem van Loon • Nationality: American Dutch • Occupation: Author, teacher, editor, journalist, announcer • Date of Birth: January 14th, 1882 • Date of Death: March 11th, 1944 • What his book about: History, geography, civilization, science, ect. • Bibliography: "Van Loon's Geography"( "The Story of the World")（《房龙地理》，即《地球的故事》）, "The Story of the Pacific"（《太平洋的故事》）, "The Story of Mankind"（《人类的故事》）, "The Story of the Bible"（《圣经的故事》）, "Tolerance"（《宽容》）
Countries and Territories
• • • • • • • • • • • • Greece [gri:s; gris] 希腊 Italy ['itəli] 意大利 Spain [spein] 西班牙 France [fræ ns] 法国 Belgium ['beldʒəm] 比利时 Luxemburg ['lʌksəmbə:g; lju:ksɔŋ'bu:r] 卢森堡 Switzerland ['switsələnd] 瑞士 Germany ['dʒə:məni:; 'dʒəməni] 德国 Austria ['ɔstriə] 奥地利 Denmark ['denma:k] 丹麦 Iceland ['aislənd] 冰岛 the Scandinavian Peninsula [ðə ,skændi'neiviən pi'ninsjulə] 斯 堪的纳维亚半岛 •荷兰 • Russia ['rʌʃə] 俄国（俄罗斯帝国）
New Words and Phrases
• • • • • • • • • • • condition [kən'diʃən] noun 条件；情况verb 训练；决定 application [,æ pli'keiʃən; ,æplə'keiʃən] noun 应用 manner ['mænə] noun 举止；方式；习俗；礼貌 datum ['deitəm] noun 数据；资料 (pl. data ['deitə]) population [,pɔpju'leiʃən; ,pɔpjə'leiʃən] noun 人口 area ['eəriə; 'eriə] noun 面积；地区；区域 survivorship [sə'vaivə,ʃip] noun 生存 suffer ['sʌfə] verb 遭受；受到 punishment ['pʌniʃmənt] noun 惩罚 die out 灭绝 geographical [dʒiə'græfikəl] adj. 地理的；地理学的
Countries and Territories
• • • • • • • • • • • • • Poland ['pəulənd] 波兰 Czechoslovakia [,tʃekəsləu'vɑ:kiə] 捷克斯洛伐克 Yugoslavia [,ju:gəu'slɑ:viə] 南斯拉夫 Bulgaria [bʌl'geəriə] 保加利亚 Rumania [ru:'meiniə; rəu'meiniə] 罗马尼亚 Hungary ['hʌŋɡəri] 匈牙利 Finland ['finlənd] 芬兰 the Central Asiatic Highlands [ðə 'sentrəl ,eiʃi'ætik 'hailəndz] 亚 州中部高原 the Great Western Plateau of Asia [ðə greit 'westən 'plætəu ɔv 'eiʃə] 亚洲西部高原 Arabia [ə'reibiə] 阿拉伯半岛 India ['indiə] 印度 Burma ['bə:mə] 缅甸 Siam [sai'æ m; 'saiæ m] 暹罗
Van Loon's Geography The Story of the World 房龙地理 地球的故事
New Words and Phrases
• • • • • • • • • • • American Dutch 美籍荷兰人 author ['ɔ:θə(r)] noun 作家；作者 announcer [ə'naunsə] noun 宣告者；广播员 civilization [,sivilai'zeiʃən; -li'-] noun 文明；文化 bibliography [,bibli'ɔgrəfi] noun 著作；书目；文献学 Pacific [pə'sifik] noun 太平洋 adj. 太平洋的 mankind [,mæ n'kaind; 'mæ n,kaind] noun 人类 Bible ['baibl; 'baibəl] noun 圣经 tolerance ['tɔlərəns] noun 宽容；忍耐力 relationship [ri'leiʃən'ʃip] noun 关系；关联 territory ['teritəri; 'terə,təuri] noun 地区
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Countries and Territories
The Specials of the Book
• What the Book about: Human Geography, such as the condition of the people there, why they live there, where they come from, and what they do. Just wrote down the information which is cared by humans. • Specials: Expresses the habits, customs and manners of the world and the people of the countries and territories which the author wrote, and not only introduces the data of the population and area. • Others: It's describes the relationship between human's survivorship and the condition of environment, and it says if humans won't protect the environment, we will suffer the punishment from the earth and even we'll die out.
About the Book
• Name: Van Loon's Geography • Writer: Hendrik Willem van Loon • Aims to: Describe the world, discuss the relationship between human and the world, try finding the way to live a happy life together, introduce and describe several countries and territories • Example: It introduces the applications of the maps, and the causes and happenings of the season