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It was the year 1751 in England. Mr. Blandy slowly ate his food. He was not feeling well. His daughter Mary sat quietly with him. She was his only child. Mr. Blandy was an important lawyer and town of...

那是 1751 年的英格兰。布兰迪先生慢慢地吃着他的食物。他感觉不舒服。他的女儿玛丽静静地坐在他身边。她是他唯一的孩子。布兰迪先生是伦敦以西约 55 公里的亨利镇的一名重要律师和镇官员。但他的体力不足以工作。他的头剧烈疼痛。他的肚子疼。他非...

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For Luma Mefleh the Fugees were like a family. Luma grew up in Jordan, in the Middle East. She came to the United States for school. After she finished university, Luma did not know what she wanted. S...

对Luma Mefleh来说，难民就像一家人。卢马在中东的约旦长大。她来美国上学。大学毕业后，Luma不知道自己想要什么。她尝试了许多工作，搬到了许多不同的地方。最后，她搬到了格鲁吉亚。但她仍然感到不满意。直到有一天，她看到一群孩子在街上踢...

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Shamsoun Dikori was born in the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan in the early 1980’s. He remembers his home as a beautiful place. It was filled with fruit trees and grass fields. As the oldest of six c...

Shamsoun Dikori于20世纪80年代初出生在苏丹中部的努巴山脉。他记得他的家是个美丽的地方。里面种满了果树和草地。作为六个孩子中最大的一个，Shamsoun也有一个庞大而充满爱心的家庭。“我妈妈关心每个人。她总是想给她的孩子最好...

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The year was seventeen seventy-five. Colonists in Massachusetts had fought battles with British troops in the towns of Lexington and Concord.War had not been declared.But citizen soldiers in each of t...

那一年是1775年。马萨诸塞州的殖民者曾在列克星敦和康科德与英国军队作战。战争尚未宣战。但13个美国殖民地的公民士兵都准备战斗。谁打算把殖民者组织成一支军队？这是第二届大陆会议代表5月在宾夕法尼亚州费城开会时面临的第一个问题。代表们决定，这...

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Obesity means that someone weighs so much that their health is in danger. They are at risk from heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. In Tonga, celebrations like the one with the cooked ...

肥胖意味着一个人的体重太重，以至于他们的健康处于危险之中。他们有患心脏病、高血压和糖尿病的风险。在汤加，像煮猪这样的庆祝活动可能会导致人们体重增加很多。但汤加人只在特殊时候吃这种食物。然而，他们其余时间吃的食物也是一个大问题。他们通常吃进口...

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We look at the start of the American Revolution.The road to revolution in the late seventeen hundreds took several years.There were protests against the British policy of taxing the colonies without g...

我们来看看美国独立战争的开始。十七世纪末的革命之路历经数年。有人抗议英国在没有议会代表权的情况下对殖民地征税的政策。为了避免麻烦，英国向马萨诸塞州最大的城市波士顿派遣了数千名士兵。马萨诸塞州历史学会教育和公共项目主任Jayne Gordon...

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Huge amounts of gold.Enough gold to make a person extremely rich.Our story begins in an area called the Klondike in the Yukon Territory of western Canada.The discovery took place on a warm August dayi...

大量的黄金。足够的黄金让一个人变得极其富有。我们的故事始于加拿大西部育空地区的克朗代克地区。这一发现发生在1896年8月的一个温暖的日子里。乔治·卡马克和他的两个印度朋友Skookum Jim Mason和Dawson Charlie在加拿...

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Some people are walking in a beautiful stone building. Tall windows let the bright sunshine light up the rooms. A large number of paintings hang on the walls. All the pictures show the same thing - so...

有些人在一座美丽的石头建筑里散步。高高的窗户让明亮的阳光照亮了房间。墙上挂着许多画。所有的照片都显示了同样的事情——一些花漂浮在一个小湖上。在每种情况下，画家都使用了不同的颜色。在一些图片中，很难看到一种颜色在哪里停止，另一种颜色从哪里开始...