看新地图册谈谈世界上的国家，世界各国有哪些有趣的建筑

今天的这段对话，在讨论书，

看新地图册谈谈世界上的国家，世界各国有哪些有趣的建筑

来听今天的讲解:

Beginner

A: what book is that?

那是什么书？

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

我刚买了一本新地图册。我正在看这张世界地图。看看俄罗斯！那是一个幅员辽阔的国家。

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

加拿大、中国和美国也很大。

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

世界上也有几个小国。像摩纳哥这样的国家比许多城市都小。

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.

与俄罗斯相比，这些小国是微观的。欧洲国家相对较小。法国在欧洲看起来相当大，但与其他大陆的许多国家相比，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.

英国的面积只有法国的一半，但大不列颠仍然是世界上最大的岛屿之一。

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.

大国的问题是，它们通常有大片无用或几乎没有使用的土地。俄罗斯和加拿大有大片的冰和森林。

Intermediate

A: that looks like an interesting book.

那本书看起来很有趣。

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。它有来自世界各地的有趣建筑的照片，并简要描述了它们是如何建造的，它们的用途等等。

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。很容易看出它们是怎么得名的！不过它们的侧面并不光滑。

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.

他们现在没有，但大多数人最初都是这样做的。这是美国五边形的照片。它的五个侧面非常独特。

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

看看那栋圆柱形的办公楼。我以前从来没有见过那种形状的。

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

是的。通常只有塔是圆柱形的。

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

电视塔通常底部比顶部厚。它们不是完美的圆柱形。

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

这是世界上最大的体育场。它是一个巨大的椭圆形。

A: what sports do they play there?

他们在那里做什么运动？

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

这里说它主要用于大型足球比赛和田径比赛。

A: is that building a perfect cube?

那是一个完美的立方体吗？

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?

根据书中的说法，是的。我从来没有见过一座建筑是完美的立方体。看看这座建筑。从空中看，它看起来像一个四边各有一个半圆的正方形。它是什么样的建筑？

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.

据说这是一座战争纪念碑。现在，布鲁塞尔有一个独特的结构——原子。看到了吗？它由几个圆柱体连接而成。我相信你可以在里面上下移动。