看新地圖冊談談世界上的國家，世界各國有哪些有趣的建筑

今天的這段對話，在討論書，

看新地圖冊談談世界上的國家，世界各國有哪些有趣的建筑

來聽今天的講解:

Beginner

A: what book is that?

那是什么書？

B: I just bought a new atlas. I’m looking this map of the world. Look at Russia! That’s a vast country.

我剛買了一本新地圖冊。我正在看這張世界地圖。看看俄羅斯！那是一個幅員遼闊的國家。

A: Canada, China, and the USA are huge too.

加拿大、中國和美國也很大。

B: there are several tiny countries in the world too. Countries like Monaco are smaller than many cities.

世界上也有幾個小國。像摩納哥這樣的國家比許多城市都小。

A: those small countries are microscopic compared to Russia. European countries are relatively small. France looks quite big in Europe, but compared to many countries in other continents, it’s not very large at all.

與俄羅斯相比，這些小國是微觀的。歐洲國家相對較小。法國在歐洲看起來相當大，但與其他大陸的許多國家相比，它根本就不是很大。

B: britain is half the size of france, but great Britain is still one of the largest islands in the world.

英國的面積只有法國的一半，但大不列顛仍然是世界上最大的島嶼之一。

A: the thing with large countries is that often they have vast areas of land that are useless or hardly used. Russia and Canada have enormous areas of ice and forest.

大國的問題是，它們通常有大片無用或幾乎沒有使用的土地。俄羅斯和加拿大有大片的冰和森林。

Intermediate

A: that looks like an interesting book.

那本書看起來很有趣。

B: it is. It’s got pictures of interesting building from all over the world, with brief descriptions of how they were build, their purpose, and so on.

是的。它有來自世界各地的有趣建筑的照片，并簡要描述了它們是如何建造的，它們的用途等等。

A: there are the pyramids. It’s easy to see how they got that name! they don’t have smooth sides though.

那里有金字塔。很容易看出它們是怎么得名的！不過它們的側面并不光滑。

B: they don’t now, but most of them did originally. There’s picture of the pentagon in the united states. It’s very distinctive with its five sides.

他們現(xiàn)在沒有，但大多數(shù)人最初都是這樣做的。這是美國五邊形的照片。它的五個側面非常獨特。

A: look at that cylindrical office building. I’ve never been seen one that shape before.

看看那棟圓柱形的辦公樓。我以前從來沒有見過那種形狀的。

B: yes. Usually only towers are cylindrical in shape.

是的。通常只有塔是圓柱形的。

A: tv towers are usually thicker at the bottom than at the top. They’re not perfectly cylindrical.

電視塔通常底部比頂部厚。它們不是完美的圓柱形。

B: this is the world’s largest sports stadium. It’s a massive oval.

這是世界上最大的體育場。它是一個巨大的橢圓形。

A: what sports do they play there?

他們在那里做什么運動？

B: it says here that it’s mainly used for big football matches and athletics meetings.

這里說它主要用于大型足球比賽和田徑比賽。

A: is that building a perfect cube?

那是一個完美的立方體嗎？

B: according to the book, it is. I’ve never seen a building that is a perfect cube. Look at the building. From the air, it looks like a square with a semi-circle attached to each of its four sides. What kind of building is it?

根據(jù)書中的說法，是的。我從來沒有見過一座建筑是完美的立方體?？纯催@座建筑。從空中看，它看起來像一個四邊各有一個半圓的正方形。它是什么樣的建筑？

A: is says here that it’s a war memorial. Now, there’s a distinctive structure-the atomium in Brussels. See? It consists of several connected by cylinders. I believe you can go up and down inside it.

據(jù)說這是一座戰(zhàn)爭紀念碑?，F(xiàn)在，布魯塞爾有一個獨特的結構——原子。看到了嗎？它由幾個圓柱體連接而成。我相信你可以在里面上下移動。