Learn English from USA History. no.2

Learn English from USA History.  no.2

来源《U.S.A HISTORY IN BRIEF》p3

 

The early America

 

     The most recent Ice Age was about 35,000 years ago. Much of the world's water was frozen into big sheets of ice. A land bridge--as wide as 1,500 kilometers--joined Asia and North America. By 12,000 years ago, humans lived throughout much of what now are the Americas.

     The first "Americans" crossed the land bridge from Asia. Historians believe that they lived in what now is Alaska for thousands of years. They moved south into today's mainland United States. They lived by the Pacific Ocean in the Northwest, in the mountains and deserts of the Southwest, and along the Mississippi River in the Midwest.

 

 

远古的美洲

 

      最近的一个冰河世纪是三万五千年以前，那时世界上的大部分水都被冻成了一大块冰凌。一个宽约一千五百公里的大陆架，连接了亚洲大陆和北美大陆。一直到一万两千年以前，人们穿越大陆架来到了当今的美洲大陆生活。

      第一个美洲人来自于穿越大陆冰架的亚洲大陆。历史学家相信这些美洲人一开始在现今的阿拉斯加居住了几千年。随后他们向南部搬迁，一直迁移到如今的美利坚联合众国的腹区。他们居住的范围西北以太平洋为界，在美洲大陆中西部沿着密西西比河，在西南部的山川和沙漠中生活。

 

      以上就是第一章-远古的美洲，第一段的原文和翻译。最后一句关于远古美洲人的居住区域翻译的不好，希望大家给帮助一下，谢谢！

 

                                                  elemark

                                      2010年6月11日11:27:31