英语国家概况名词解释

英语国家概况名词解释

1．亚美利哥维斯浦奇(amerigo vespucci)意大

and abroad. It granted each August and lasts for and the Welsh, And their Augustine, the Prior of St. freedom to all slaves in about a week. The languages are the basis Andrew’s Monastery in

利航海家，发现了亚马逊 areas still controlled by highlight of the festival is of both Welsh and Gaelic. Rome, to England to a navigator, proved that the Confederacy. competition for the best They religion was convert the heathen the land was not

5．epic poem about Wales Druidism. English to Christianity.

written and read in Welsh.

11．That year, St. Augustine

became the first

India,but a new continent. 英国

Therefore, the land was 清教徒----The Pilgrims The winner is crowned （对英格

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named America after. in 1620, 201 of them Board, considered the 兰）的军事征服----The Archbishop of

sailed to the New World supreme honour in Norman Conquest of Canterbury. Augustine

清教徒 were wealthy, in a ship called Wales. In this way the well-educated gentlemen. Mayflower. The first Welsh people keep the They wanted to purify the winter after their arrival Welsh language and Church of England and was very cold and when culture alive. threatened with religious spring came, half of them

8．伦敦

persecution, the Puritans were dead. Then the 人----A cockney is a leaders saw the New Indians came to their Londoner who is born world as the a refuge help and taught them within the sound of Bow provided by God for how to grow corn. They Bells-the Bells of the those He meant to save. had a good harvest that church of St. 3．year. So they invited the Mary-LeBow in east Indians and held the first L

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9．Madison introduced in in America to give thanks is a group of huge

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6．The Chunnel英

Slabs on salisbury plain of amendments which 吉利海峡隧道----In in Southwest England later were drafted into 1985 the British built as long ago as the twelve proposed government and French New Stone Age. It is amendments and sent to government decided to generally believed that the states for ratification. build a channel tunnel, stonehenge served Ten of them were ratified which is called “Chunnel”, some sort of religious in 1791 and the first ten under the Straits of purposes. amendments to the Dover so that England

10．constitution were called and France could be Celts came the Bills of Rights joined together by road. to Britain in three main because they were to The Chunnel was open waves. The first wave insure individual liberties. to traffic in May 1994. were the Gales, the 4．7．诗

second wave were the 人----Eisteddfod is the Brythons and the Belgae 宣言----After the Civil Welsh word for “sitting” came about 150BC. The war began, Lincoln National Eidteddfod is Celts were practised issued the Emancipation the most famous festival farmers. The Celtic tribes

Proclamation to win of music and verse in are ancestors of the more support at home Wales. It takes place Highland Scots, the Irish 1066 is perhaps the best-known event in English history. William the conqueror confiscated almost all the land and gave it to his Norman followers. He replaced the weak Saxon rule with a strong

Norman government. So the feudal system was completely established in E

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----He was king of Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms. It was he who led the Anglo-Saxon to flight against the invading Danes and maintained peace for a long time. Alfred was not only a brave king at wartime, but also a wise king at peacetime. He encouraged education and introduced a legal system. He is known as

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13．奥古斯丁----In 597,Pope Gregory I sent St. was remarkably

successful in converting the king and the nobility, but the conversion of the common people was

largely due to the missionary activities of the monks in the north. 14．土地调查清册

----It is a book compiled by a group of clerks

under the sponsorship of

King William the First in

1086. The book was in

fact a property record. It

was the result of a general survey of England. It recorded the extent, value, state of cultivation, and ownership of the land. It was one of the important measures adopted by

William I to establish the full feudal system in England. Today, it is kept in the Public Records Office in London.

15．Geoffrey

杰佛利· 乔叟 英国代

表作家，现实主义文学的奠基者。

----He was an important

English poet in the fourteenth century. His

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