高中英语必修3课文翻译

高中英语必修3课文翻译

篇一：高中英语必修3课文翻译

What Is a Tornado?

龙卷风是什么?

A tornado is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground.

龙卷风是一种旋转的气流柱从一场雷雨在地上。

The most violent have winds of more than 400 kilometres per hour.

最暴力的有的风速超过400公里每小时。

Almost all of them occur in the US, in the area from Texas in the southeast to South Dakota in the north.

几乎所有的车都发生在美国,在该地区东南来自德克萨斯州到南达科塔州在北方。

Tornadoes can pick up cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street—or even in the next town.

龙卷风可以捡到的汽车、火车,甚至的房屋,把它们记在接下来的street-or甚至在邻近的城镇。

They can take the fur off the back of a cat and the feathers off a chicken.

他们能够获得皮毛从后面的那片羽毛,一只猫从鸡。

They can destroy houses, but leave the furniture inside exactly where it was.

他们可以破坏房屋,但离开里面的家具到底在哪里。

On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year, causing about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries.

平均来说,有800个龙卷风在美国每年造成约80人死亡,1500伤害。

The worst tornado of all time occurred in 1925, affecting three US states: Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.

最严重的飓风发生在1925年的,影响了三名美国状态:密苏里州,伊利诺斯州和印第安那州的初选。

By the time it ended, more than 700 people had been killed and 2,700 had been injured. 在那个时候结束

后,700多名乘客被打死,2700人受伤。

What Is a Hurricane?

什么是飓风?

Hurricanes are strong tropical storms, and they usually occur in the southern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

飓风强热带风暴,他们通常发生在南大西洋,加勒比海和墨西哥湾。

There are violent winds of 120 kilometres per hour or more, which cause huge waves, heavy rain and floods.

有强风120公里的时速或更多,造成巨浪,大雨和洪水。

There are on average six Atlantic hurricanes each year and they usually affect the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine.

关于平均为6大西洋飓风,每年他们通常影响美国东海岸,从德克萨斯州一直延伸到缅因州。

The worst hurricane disaster of all time occurred on the 8th September 1900 in Galveston, Texas.

最严重的飓风灾难所有的时间出现在9月8日在得克萨斯州加尔维斯敦市1900年。

Winds of 200 kilometres per hour and five-metre high waves hit the city.

风力每小时200公里five-metre巨浪袭击了城市。

The disaster killed 6,000 people in a population of 37,000 and destroyed 3,600 buildings. 这场灾难的6000

人死亡人口中有三万七千人,毁坏了3600建筑。

An Extraordinary Event

一个不同寻常的事件

This is a story about the 1900 Galveston hurricane.

这个故事是关于1900年的加尔维斯顿飓风。

Charles Coghlan was a nineteenth-century Irish actor who went to live in Canada.

查尔斯Coghlan是一个19世纪的爱尔兰演员去住在加拿大。

He then moved to New York, where he became famous.

然后他搬到纽约,在那里他成名了。

By the late 1890s, he had moved to Galveston, where he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane struck.

到了1890年代末期,他就搬到加尔维斯顿,拿破仑死于1899年的前一年,飓风袭击。

The cemetery where Coghlan was buried was destroyed by the hurricane and Coghlan's coffin ended up in the sea.

这个公墓,许多Coghlan葬被毁坏的Coghlan的棺木飓风,最终在海中。

Eight years later, the coffin was found by fishermen

in the sea near his home on Prince Edw 8年之后,棺材是渔民们在海上发现他家附近Edw王子

篇二：人教版高中英语必修三课文翻译

Unit 1 Festivals around the world

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节日和庆典

自古以来，世界各地就有各种各样的节目和庆典。大多数古老的节日总是庆祝严寒的结束，春季的种植和秋天的收割。有时，在猎人捕获猎物后，也举行庆祝活动。在那个时代，如果