2009-10-19 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Child toymaker I

Like all children, rich kids love their toys. Unfortunately, this means that poor children, with their tiny hands, have to work in sweat shops to make them.
But it found that the

2009-10-19 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Child toymaker II

Thousands of children worked and were abused in this way for years, with no chances of escape or of bettering themselves. A sorry reminder that suffering continues even through th

2009-10-19 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

The Vanished City Of The Pharaoh 消失的法老城市

This magnificent ancient capital was built 3000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great, but long ago the it disappeared. When finally r

2009-10-19 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

消失的法老城市

This magnificent ancient capital was built 3000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great, but long ago the it disappeared. When finally rediscovered by early archaeologis

2009-10-19 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

You might think this would make the search for Pi-Ramesse easy. But you'd be wrong.

Well, the big problem of finding Pi-Ramesse was the problem of the eastern branch of the Nile which we know it l

2009-10-19 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

So we have the whole thing reading Ra-Messe-Shu marry Amon, or Ramesses, beloved of Amon. Pi-Ramesse, we know, had major temples, particularly dedicated to the god Amon. Any site we should claim to be

2009-10-19 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Montet's destination was Tanis in the northeastern corner of the Nile Delta. Tanis was a very remote site at the end of a very long track set in a landscape that looks like the surface of the moon. W

2009-10-19 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

He published journals and identified the remains of a massive temple dedicated to the God Amon. As Montet's work progressed, his fame and reputation spread across the world. The more his teams excava

2009-10-19 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

And then, other strange anomalies began turning up. Puzzling finds from other places suggesting Piramesse might lie elsewhere. Show me.
He says it was dug up about 30 kilometres from here. He claimes

2009-10-19 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Manfred Bietak was interested in the role played by the Nile in ancient times when he stumbled upon the strange truth about Piramesse. He was trying to trace the lost river beds and waterways of the N

2009-10-18 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Kelp Harvester

Have you ever wondered how this little chemical thing which sparks our drinks is produced?
It’s not a job as sparkling as that of the winking bubbles.
Here is a Christmas riddle

2009-10-18 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Limelighter

Though the sparkling light produced by blending different gas may hold the tension of the pantomime and take your breath at the same time, however, the work of limelighting is never a n

2009-10-18 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Actors in a pantomime cow

Have you ever tried Chinese “舞狮？ If so, you can get to know how difficult this job can be.
By the 19th century, the festive season was getting much closer to our mode

2009-10-18 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

The Yule log feller

The Yule log is specialized to satisfy the demand of cooking in Medieval Christmas. However, to fall the pine is never an easy job to take.
Medieval Christmas was a weird mix

2009-10-18 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Fagoter

If Mai Tan Weng, the Old Charcoal seller, has ever won your sympathy, you are not going to miss the fagoter who used to gather winter fuel in Christmas season.
Hither, page, and stand by

2009-10-18 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Bell Ringer on Christmas Eve

It is a blessing to ring the bell on New Year 's Eve in China. Here, we have this bell ringer who works on the eve of Christmas. Let's take a glance at his job and t

2009-10-18 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

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2009-10-18 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

The Roman feast of Saturnalia 农神节的盛宴

Is christ born at Christmas?
Is drinking and eating the real spirit of christmas?

Host Tony Robinson goes in search of the not-so-happy holidays spent

2009-10-17 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

By sixteen hundred, the long forgotten ideas of Aristarchus had been rediscovered. Johannes Kepler constructed elaborate models to understand the motion and arrangement of the planets---the clockwork

2009-10-17 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

(The) intricate and subtle way that the universe is put together. Genius flourished here. In addition to Eratosthenes, there was the astronomer Hipparchus who mapped the constellations and established

2009-10-17 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

(The Big Bang is at upper left in the first second of January 1st, 15 billions years later, is our present time,) the last second of December 31st.

Every month is one and a quarter billion years lo

2009-10-17 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

The papyrus reed grows in Egypt. It’s the origin of our word for “paper”. And each of those million volumes which once existed in this library were handwritten on papyrus manuscript scrolls.

Wh

2009-10-17 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

(The city was chosen to be the capital of his empire by Alexander) the Great on a winter's afternoon in 331 BC.

A century later, it had become the greatest city of the world. Each success of civil

2009-10-17 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

It is about 50 kilometres west of what was once one of the great cities of the world, Alexandria. In Alexandria at that time, there lived a man named Eratosthenes. One of his envious contemporaries ca

2009-10-17 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

(They also) make sense on a flat Earth. But how could it be, Eratosthenes asked, that at the same instant there was no shadow at Syene and a very substantial shadow at Alexandria. The only answer was