英語(yǔ)國(guó)家概況精講系列(二十五)

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英語(yǔ)國(guó)家概況精講系列(二十五)
    美國(guó)部分開(kāi)始
    chapter 13 geography 地理位置
    1.Alaska and Hawaii are the two newest states in American.Alaska northwestern Canada,and Hawaii lies in the central Pacific.
    阿拉斯加和夏威夷是最近加入美國(guó)的兩個(gè)新州。阿拉斯加在加拿大的西北部,夏威夷位鄰中太平洋。(本細(xì)節(jié)還有考“一句話簡(jiǎn)答”的可能)
    2.The U.S has a land area of 9.3 million square kilometres.It is the fourth largest country in the world in size after Russia,Canada and China.
    就面積而言,美國(guó)是世界第四大國(guó),就人口而言,美國(guó)是世界是第三大國(guó)。
    3.Of all states of American,Alaska is the lagest in area and Rhode Island the smallest.But on the mainland Texas is the largest sate of the country.
    所有州中,阿拉斯加是面積的州,羅得島最小,在美國(guó)大陸,的州是得克薩斯州。
    4.The Rockies,the backbone of the North American Continent,is also known as the Continental Divide.
    落基山脈是北美大陸的脊梁,也被成為大陸分水嶺。
    5.The two main mountain ranges in American are the Appalachian mountains and the Rocky mountains. The Appalachians run slightly from the northeast to southwest and the Rocky mountains run slightly from the northwest to southeast.
    阿巴拉契亞山脈和落基山脈是美國(guó)的兩座大山脈。(本細(xì)節(jié)有考“一句話簡(jiǎn)答題”的可能)
    6.The Mississippi River is the largest river in American,over 6000 kilometers.The Mississippi has been called father of watersor old man river
    密西西比河是美國(guó)最長(zhǎng)河流,有被稱作“眾水之父”或“老人河”。
    7.The Ohio river has been called the American Ruhr,As in Germany, the area along the river is rich in valuable deposits of high-grade coking coal and is well known for its steel industry.The river provides cheap water transportation for raw materials.
    俄亥俄河被稱作美國(guó)的魯爾河,就像德國(guó)一樣,沿河有豐富的高品千周的焦煤,并且因其鋼鐵而。另外,該河還為原材料提供了廉價(jià)的水路運(yùn)輸。
    8.On the Pacific side there are two great rivers:the Colorado in the south and the Columbia ,which rises in Canada.
    太平洋沿岸有兩大河:科羅拉多河及哥倫比亞河。
    9.The Rio Grande River forms a natural boundary between Mexico and the United States.
    格蘭德河是美國(guó)和墨西哥之間的開(kāi)然界河(本細(xì)節(jié)考選擇和簡(jiǎn)答可能性大)
    10.the most important lakes in the United States are the Great Lakes. They are Lake Superior,which is the largest fresh water lake in the world, Lake Michigan ,the only entirely in the U.S.,Lake Huron,Lake Eire and Lake Ontario.They are located between Canada and the United States except Lake Michigan.
    美國(guó)最重要的湖泊是五大湖:蘇必利爾湖,密歇根湖,休倫湖,伊利湖和安大略湖,其中,蘇必利爾湖為世界淡水湖,密歇根湖完全是美國(guó)境地內(nèi)。