英国部分
1.The Thames River 2.The High Landers
3.The British Commonwealth 英联邦
4.Cockney伦敦佬 5.Eisteddfodau
6.The Maritime Climate 海洋性气候
7.The English Channel 8.The Chunnel英吉利海峡隧道 9.“pea soup” fogs伦敦雾 10.British isles 11.Stonehenge: 巨石阵 12.Thomas becket:托马斯 13.Geoffrey Chaucer 14.Joan of arc:圣女贞德 15.lollards:罗拉德派 16.The Puritans清教徒 17.Julius Caesar
18.The Hardrian's Wall 哈德连长城
19.Heptarchy七王国 20.St.Augustine 21.Witan 贤人会议 22.Alfred the Great 豆瓣 23.William the Conqueror 威廉征服
24.The battle of Hastings 25.The Danelaw 施行丹麦法的地区
26.Norman Conquest 诺曼征服 27.Domesday Book 英国国王1806年颁的土地调查清册 28.The Black Death黑死病 29.the divine rights of kings君权神授
30.The Wars of Roses玫瑰战争(考过)
31.the Spanish Armada:西班牙无敌舰队
32.The Glorious Revolution of 1688光荣革命
33.The Gunpowder Plot of 1605
火药阴谋案
34.Blood Mary血腥玛丽 35.rotten boroughs衰败选区 36.Mrs Pankhurst潘克赫斯特太太是女权的主要倡导者之一。 37.the league of nations国际联盟 38.the blitz闪电战 39.the beatles甲克虫乐队 40.Thatcherism撒切尔主义 41.balance of payments收支平衡 42.john Maynard Keynes 43.visible trade and invisible trade 44.European union欧盟 45.Monetarist policies(货币主义政策)
46.The Trade Union Act of 1871工会法
47.Agribusiness农业产业 48.British disease英国病 49.Constitutional monarchy君主立宪制
50.Privy Council枢密院
51.Common law公共法 52.the state opening of parliament 53.The Civil list 英国王室费(考过)
54.the civil service公务员(考过) 55.life peer终身贵族 56.acquittal无罪裁决 57.cross-examination 58.The Crown Court刑事法庭 59.probation缓刑 60.capital punishment死刑 61.the metropolitan police force 62.The National Health Service英国国民保健制度
63.national insurance 社会保险 64.general practitioner(GP) 65.social worker 66.the salvation army 67.Comprehensive schools 68.Reuters 路透社
69.grant-maintained(GM)Schools有公费保证的学校
70.eleven-plus(升学考试) 71.BBC
72.Rupert murdoch 73.the british museum 74.Pilgrims Thanksgiving Day Ireland(爱尔兰) 美国部分
1.Amerigo Vespucci 2.the Mississippi 3.Hispanics 4.WASPS 5.baby boom 6.the great lakes 7.Ellis island
8.\9.the Emancipation Proclamation 10.no
taxtation
without
representation
11.the Chinese Exclution Act 12.Indentured servants
13.boston tea party(考过) 14.continental divide 15.federalists
16.the gettysburg address 17.the ku klux klan 18.muckrakers黑幕揭发者 19.intolerant nationalism 20.the red scare
21.the progressive movement 22.overload 23.The New Deal 24.the truman doctrine 25.the marshall plan 26.the smith act
27.the civil rights act of 1964 28.the poverty line 29.poverty 30.monopoly 31.oligopoly
32 checks and balances 33.winner-take-all
34. the free enterprise system
35. the federal system 36.separation of powers 37. private school 38.school district 39. global education 40. poor richard's almanac 41.transcendentalism 42. jazz
43.knickerbockers era 44. father's day 45.mother's day
46. congressional medal of honor 47.UNICEF 48. Great Canyon 49. New England 50.Hispanic Americans 51. Chicanos 52.Puerto Ricans 53.Federalist Papers
54.The First Continental Congress 55.Manifest Destiny 56.The Black Thursday
57.New Frontier 58.Port Huron Statement 59.NOW 60.Counterculture 61.American Corn Belt 62。 American Corn Belt 63。Three giants in American automobile industry 64.Electoral College
65 US presidential inauguration 66 community college 67 new basics 68 Knickerbockers 69 Leaves of Grass 70 Harlem Renaissance 71 Halloween 72 independence Day
英国概况名词解释(全部版)
1.The Thames River
The Thames River is the second largest and most important river in Britain. It is 336 KM
long, rising in southwest England and flowing through England and out into the North Sea. It flows rather slowly, which is very favorable 自由联合体。
4.Cockney伦敦佬
for water transportation.
2.The High Landers
They are the Scots who live in the mountainous regions of the Highlands in Northern Scotland. They are a proud, independent and hardy people who maintain their strong cultural identity. They mainly live by farming sheep in mountain areas or fishing on the coasts and islands.
3.The British Commonwealth 英联邦
The British Empire was replaced by the British
Commonwealth
or
the Commonwealth of Nations in 1931.It is a free association of independent countries that were once colonies of Britain. Member nations are joined together economically and have certain trading arrangements. The Commonwealth has no special powers. The decision to become a member of the Commonwealth is left to each member nation. At present there are 50 members counties whit in the commonwealth (1991).
是曾为英国殖民地，但现在已经独立构成的
A cockney is a Londoner who is born within the sound of Bow Bells-the Bells of the church of St. Mary-LeBow in east London
5.Eisteddfodau
festivals of song and dance and poetry celebrated by the welsh through the year. By this way the welsh keep the welsh language and welsh culture alive.
6.The Maritime Climate 海洋性气候
The type of climate when winter is mild, not too cold and summer is cool, not too hot, and it has a steady reliable rainfall throughout the whole year.
7.The English Channel
A Channel that separates Britain from the rest of France is quite narrow. A channel tunnel under this channel was built in 1994 to join the two countries together.
8.The Chunnel英吉利海峡隧道
In 1985 the British government and French