英语畅谈世界文化100主题(附赠Mp3录音光盘)
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本书以世界五大洲24个国家的100个文化标志作为谈论话题。对话部分信息丰富、观点独特、激发兴趣，注重表现熟悉话题的新亮点。对话语言秉承生动、简洁、有效的原则，有丰富的固定搭配和短语帮助你掌握口语表达法；注释部分挖掘对话中的趣味点，扩展历史人文知识；每课的词汇表提炼出重要的口语表达法。通过本书及附赠的MP3对话录音，你可以进行口语、听力、语音、听写、口笔译、词汇等各种练习。无论用于课堂口语教学还是自学，本书都具有相当大的伸展度和灵活性。
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Nick Stirk，英国人，毕业于英国贝尔法斯特大学和剑桥大学；先后在北京大学、清华大学、中国人民大学和北京语言文化大学讲授研究生口语与写作课程；曾在台湾地区和韩国讲授从高中到研究生的英语课程；在中国大陆参与编写多部英语教材。
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argentina 阿根廷
1 maradona 马拉多纳
2 eva perón 伊娃·庇隆
3 tango 探戈
australia 澳大利亚
4 sydney opera house 悉尼歌剧院
5 aborigines 土著居民
6 kangaroos 袋鼠
7 great barrier reef 大堡礁
8 boomerang 回飞棒
austria 奥地利
9 mozart 莫扎特
10 sissi and schonbrunn 茜茜公主和美泉宫
brazil 巴西
11 pele 贝利
12 rio carnival 里约热内卢狂欢节
canada 加拿大
13 the mounties 加拿大骑警
14 maple leaf 枫叶
15 spirit of raven 乌鸦精灵
1 maradona 马拉多纳
2 eva perón 伊娃·庇隆
3 tango 探戈
australia 澳大利亚
4 sydney opera house 悉尼歌剧院
5 aborigines 土著居民
6 kangaroos 袋鼠
7 great barrier reef 大堡礁
8 boomerang 回飞棒
austria 奥地利
9 mozart 莫扎特
10 sissi and schonbrunn 茜茜公主和美泉宫
brazil 巴西
11 pele 贝利
12 rio carnival 里约热内卢狂欢节
canada 加拿大
13 the mounties 加拿大骑警
14 maple leaf 枫叶
15 spirit of raven 乌鸦精灵
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Cowboys 牛仔
S1: Student 1S2: Student 2
S1: I want to write about something which is truly American, what do you think? A president or a businessman?
S2: Neither, you should write about cowboys. They are a true symbol of the USA.
S1: Like in the movies?
S2: No, the life of a cowboy was anything but glamorous—it entailed hard work and long, lonesome hours.
S1: What about the clothes? Do they really wear jeans, cowboy boots and Stetson hats?
S2: Cowboy clothing is an everyday part of their wardrobes. Today they are remembered in “Spaghetti Westerns”, movies and TV shows which started a craze during the 1950s and 60s. Some are still popular today, but most people’s attraction shifted to space travel, maybe because of the moon landing in 1969.
S1: Many country and western songs try to capture the true cowboy spirit. This fascination with the “Old West” is still popular today. I think lots of Americans like country and western music. But you think movies, music and television tells us nothing about the true cowboy?
S2: Yes, but music especially has made cowboys more and more popular. The cowboy’s real job isn’t singing though, it’s looking after cattle. Hence the name “cowboy”.
S1: The cowboy’s reign in the Wild West was quite short, about 30 years, why are they such a big part of American history?
S2: Well, when the Civil War ended, many of the soldiers had no home to return to and started drifting to the West on horseback.
S1: I see, then ranch owners hired these hard working men as ranch hands and they were the first cowboys.
S2: And when the time came to sell the beef, the hands would round-up the cattle from the open prairie and take them to market.
S1: So why was their reign in the Wild West so short?
S2: It was short because the West stopped being wild. Barbed wire was invented and soon it was almost impossible to roam around freely as they had done before.
S1: So as Western America developed, the cowboys’ jobs became less and less. Nowadays no one thinks of these original cowboys, only the ones we see in the movies.
S1: Student 1S2: Student 2
S1: I want to write about something which is truly American, what do you think? A president or a businessman?
S2: Neither, you should write about cowboys. They are a true symbol of the USA.
S1: Like in the movies?
S2: No, the life of a cowboy was anything but glamorous—it entailed hard work and long, lonesome hours.
S1: What about the clothes? Do they really wear jeans, cowboy boots and Stetson hats?
S2: Cowboy clothing is an everyday part of their wardrobes. Today they are remembered in “Spaghetti Westerns”, movies and TV shows which started a craze during the 1950s and 60s. Some are still popular today, but most people’s attraction shifted to space travel, maybe because of the moon landing in 1969.
S1: Many country and western songs try to capture the true cowboy spirit. This fascination with the “Old West” is still popular today. I think lots of Americans like country and western music. But you think movies, music and television tells us nothing about the true cowboy?
S2: Yes, but music especially has made cowboys more and more popular. The cowboy’s real job isn’t singing though, it’s looking after cattle. Hence the name “cowboy”.
S1: The cowboy’s reign in the Wild West was quite short, about 30 years, why are they such a big part of American history?
S2: Well, when the Civil War ended, many of the soldiers had no home to return to and started drifting to the West on horseback.
S1: I see, then ranch owners hired these hard working men as ranch hands and they were the first cowboys.
S2: And when the time came to sell the beef, the hands would round-up the cattle from the open prairie and take them to market.
S1: So why was their reign in the Wild West so short?
S2: It was short because the West stopped being wild. Barbed wire was invented and soon it was almost impossible to roam around freely as they had done before.
S1: So as Western America developed, the cowboys’ jobs became less and less. Nowadays no one thinks of these original cowboys, only the ones we see in the movies.
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