世界小史 第19章:尼羅河畔的國家

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Chapter 3 The Land by the Nile

第三章 尼羅河畔的國家

Here - as I promised - History begins.

歷史--我答應(yīng)過你--將從這里開始。

With a when and a where.

以一個"什么時候"和一個"哪里"，

It is 3,100 BC, that is, 5,100 years ago, when, as webelieve, a king named Menes was ruling over Egypt.

公元前3100年，也就是5100年前，我們認(rèn)為那時有一位名叫美尼斯的國王統(tǒng)治著埃及。

If you want to know exactly where Egypt is, I suggest you ask a swallow.

如果你想了解埃及的詳細(xì)位置，我建議你問一只燕子。

Every autumn, when it gets cold, swallows fly south.

它在每年秋季天氣變冷的時候飛往南方。

Over the mountains to Italy, and on across a little stretch of sea, and then they're in Africa, inthe part that lies nearest to Europe.

越過群山飛向意大利，然后飛越狹窄的海域，然后它就來到了非洲，來到了非洲的那個離歐洲最近的部分。

Egypt is close by.

那兒的附近處就是埃及。