6500词床头灯英语6

出版时间：2009-5  出版社：航空工业出版社  作者：（美）莫里斯 原著，（美）汉瑞特 改编，毛红，李小艳 译注  页数：397  
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内容概要

公元前，在莱茵河与易北河生活着20多个部落，称为日尔曼人。罗马帝国经过多年征战，于公元前58年将疆域拓展到莱茵河。当时的日耳曼人，在赫曼（Hermann）的领导下团结一致，于条顿堡森林（Teutoburg Forest）大败罗马军队，历史遂以条顿（Teuton）称呼这个民族。    公元2～3世纪，日尔曼部族从散居状态逐渐形成了撒克逊、法兰克、巴伐利亚、图林根、黑森等较稳定的部落。3世纪时。查理曼（Charlernagne）帝国几乎统一了日耳曼诸族。    814年查理大帝去世，形成了东西两个王国，其分界线大致与德语和法语之间的语言界限相当。讲法语的西法兰克王国后来演变成今天的法国，而讲德语的东法兰克王国的居民开始用德意志来称呼自己的语言和民族。    919年，撤克逊公爵亨利一世即位，正式创立德意志早期封建国家，这是严格意义上的德国历史的开始。这时的王国大致包括今日的荷兰、德国、瑞士、奥地利。14世纪中期，德国出现封建割据，分裂成几百个邦国。    15、16世纪，意大利掀起文艺复兴运动，其在德国的影响就是1517年由马丁·路德领导的宗教改革，这场宗教改革使德国分裂了天主教。新旧教派之间的矛盾；中突引发了1618～1648年的战争，德意志复又处于四分五裂的状态。    18世纪初，在腓特烈大帝（Friedrich the Great）的统治下，日耳曼诸邦中的普鲁士王国（Prussia）兴起。1870年，普法战争爆发，普鲁士战胜法国。1871年，普鲁士国王威廉一世在凡尔赛宫接受加冕，成为德意志皇帝。从此，德国作为一个统一的近代民族国家在欧洲崛起。    本书共讲述了25个故事，内容跨越了罗马帝国时期一直到19世纪末德意志帝国统一的历史阶段，故事涉及到德国历史上的最重大事件和最重要人物。    这些篇章虽属于历史故事，读之却像《三国演义》，人物栩栩如生，描写生动形象，情节曲折引人入胜，令人读之不忍释卷。故事的主人公除了毫无人性的暴君以及阴险诡诈的小人，许多至今仍值得人们怀念与敬仰。他们之中有的犹如诸葛亮般足智多谋，以少胜多，以弱胜强；有的犹如秦皇汉武壮志凌云，雄视天下；有的坚忍不拔百折不挠，为了信仰舍生取义；有的为了国家独立，大义凛然，前仆后继，视死如归。    这些故事大致按照德国历史的时间顺序记述，每一个故事都是一个历史片断。把这些故事串成一条线，虽然还不能构成完整的德国历史，但管窥蠡测可见这一千年间德国人文、风俗、宗教信仰以及政治、经济、军事等的变迁与发展的轨迹。

作者简介

作者：(美国)查尔斯·莫里斯(Charles Morris) 注译：毛红 李小艳 改编：(美国)汉瑞特(Edgar Melville) 丛书主编：王若平 合著者：杨守忠

书籍目录

德国英雄赫尔曼阿尔伯因和约瑟蒙德格雷蒙德的事业维特金德，撒克逊爱国者哈托主教的人生之旅莱茵河的鼠塔恩斯特公爵的不幸经历奥托二世之治亨利四世弗雷德里克·巴巴罗萨大帝与米兰弗雷德里克二堂的十字军威廉·泰尔与瑞士爱国者黑死病和鞭身者一个疯狂的皇帝盲武士杰土卡路德与特赦农夫与再洗礼派教徒华伦斯坦的命运两个伟大战士的结局青年时代的弗雷德里克大帝伏尔泰与弗雷德里克大帝七年战争的壮丽场面蒂罗尔的爱国者新旧帝国

章节摘录

hastily made camp. But it was impossible for them to remain there. Their provisions were lost or exhausted, thousands of enemies sur- rounded them, and their only hope lay in immediate and rapid flight.Sun rise came. The soldiers had recovered somewhat from the fa- tigue of the day before. Setting fire to what baggage remained in their hands, they began a retreat fighting as they went, for the pitiless ene- my disputed every step. The first part of their route lay through an open plain, where they marched in orderly ranks. But there were mountains still to pass, and they quickly found themselves in a wood- ed and pathless valley, in whose rugged depths defense was almost impossible. Here they fell in thousands before the weapons of their enemies. It was but a small body of survivors that at length escaped from that deadly pass and threw up camp for the night in a more open spot.With the dawn of the next day they resumed their progress, and were at no great distance from their stronghold of Aliso when they found their progress arrested by fresh tribes, who attacked them with great violence. On they struggled, fighting, dying, marking every step of the route with their dead. Varus, now reduced to despair, and see- ing only slaughter or captivity before him, threw himself on his sword, and died in the midst of those whom his blind confidence had led to destruction.No more terrible disaster had ever struck the Roman army. Many prisoners had been taken, among them certain judges and lawyers, who were the chief objects of Hermann's hate, and whom he devoted to a painful death. He then offered sacrifices to the gods, to whom he gave the captured goods, the dead, and the leading prisoners, numbers of them being killed on the altars of his gods. These religious cere- monies completed,prisoners who still remained were distributed a- mong the tribes as slaves. The effort of Varus to force Roman customs and laws upon the Germans had led to a fearful retribution.When the news of this dreadful event reached Rome, that city was filled with grief and fear. The heart of Augustus, now an old man, was stricken with dismay at the slaughter of the best soldiers of the empire. With neglected dress and person he wandered about the rooms and halls of the palace, his piteous appeal,  "Varus, give me back my soldiers！"  showing how deeply the disaster had pierced his soul.Meanwhile, the Germans, satisfied, as it seemed, with expelling the Romans from their country, destroyed their forts and military roads, and settled back into peace.For six years peace continued. Augustus died, and Tiberius be- came emperor of Rome. Then, in the year 14 A.D., an effort was made to retake Germany, an army commanded by the son of Drusus, known to history under the name of Germanicus, attacking the Marsi, when intoxicated and unarmed after a religious feast. Great numbers of the defenseless tribesmen were killed, but the other tribes sprung to arms and drove the invader back across the Rhine.In the next year Hermann was again brought into the conflict. Segestus had robbed him of his wife, the beautiful patriot Thusnelda, who up until then had been his right hand in council in his plans a- gainst the Roman enemy. Hermann besieged Segestus to regain pos- session of his wife, and pressed the traitor so closely that he sent his son Sigismund to Germanicus, who was again on the German side of the Rhine, imploring aid. The Roman leader took instant advantage of this promising opportunity. He advanced and forced Hermann to raise the siege, and himself took possession of Thusnelda, who was destined soon afterwards to be made the leading feature in a Roman parade. Segestus was rewarded for his treason, and was given lands in Gaul, his life being not safe among the people he had betrayed. As for the daughter whom he had yielded to Roman hands, her fate troubled little his base soul.Thusnelda is still a popular character in German legend, there being various stories concerning her. One of these relates that, when she lay concealed in the old fort of Schellenpyrmont, she was warned by the cries of a faithful bird of the coming of the Romans, who were seeking quietly to approach her hiding place.The loss of his beloved wife roused Hermann's heroic spirit, and spread anger among the Germans, who highly esteemed the noble- hearted woman. They rose hastily in arms, and Hermann was soon at the head of a large army, prepared to defend his country against the attacking hosts of the Romans. But as the latter proved too strong to face in the open field, the Germans retreated with their families and property, the country left by them being laid waste by the advancing armies.Germanicus soon reached the scene of the late slaughter, and caused the bones of the soldiers of Varus to be buried. But in doing this he was obliged to enter the mountain passes in which the former army had met its fate. Hermann and his men watched the Romans in- tently from forest and hilltop. When they had fairly entered the narrow valleys, the adroit chief appeared before them at the head of a small troop, which retreated as if in fear, drawing them onward until the whole army had entered the pass.Then the fatal signal was given, and the revengeful Gernmas fell upon the armies of Germanicus as they had done upon those of Varus, cutting them down in great numbers.

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用户评论 (总计20条)

•   文笔很好，语言写的原汁原味，建议学英语的人看看
•   本书介绍的德国历史内容很详细。
•   厚厚的400页，而且是历史知识，很多单词都不认识。但是收获很大，不错！
•   中英文对照的，要克制自己不看中文~
•   书不错，推荐大家买。
•   内容丰富、值
•   厚厚的一本才十几元，大体看了几页貌似不错
•   好看，丰富
•   不错的书，既可以了解德国的历史，又可以学英文。给儿子买的，今年他会去德国，希望能对他有帮助。
•   故事比较生动，推荐购买
•   我已经读过此书了。很好，我很喜欢，
•   随便翻了一下 一般
•   孩子正在读初二，疯狂地迷上了欧洲历史，所以趁势买一本英语的德国史以帮助其熟悉地名和人名，也顺带学学英语。
  难度对孩子是个挑战。
  纸张好一点就更好了，太透，看起来不干净。
•   不得不知道的德国历史故事 德国 一个很好的国度
•   看网上的评论还不错,所以才订的,拿到后有点失望, 有关德国的历史就在19世纪结束了, 连介绍普鲁士帝国的卑斯麦铁血宰相的历史故事都没有,甚至连20世纪的历史大事件和其臭名昭著的希特勒都没有,与书名出入较大. 不推荐这本书!!
•   先不说内容如何，收到了一本2手书的外观，让我的阅读兴趣已经大减了。。。。边边全部翘起。。。。明显是外面2手书摊里面，论斤卖的图书嘛~~如果是这么旧的书，就把价格再卖低点。。。。内容，看完后再来评价
•   很好的英文书，中英对照，适合学英文，还有空白做笔记
•   我很喜欢里面的故事，一口气读下来很通畅。不过一读就会发现一些新的词汇量的拓展，比如描绘这种中世纪的斗争什么的，有一些生词比如复仇、荣耀、血统等等，就会频繁出现。所以扩展词汇量的好办法就是扩展阅读量啊~~~~美中不足的是故事就到启蒙运动前后。再往后的德国近代故事就没有了。
•   本来想买一本德国史书。结果是一本故事书，无语了，比较适合学习英文的人
•   讲故事而不是讲历史,有点失望.如果想了解德国历史的,千万不要买.