神句
1.All the money would have been worthless if legions of craftsmen hadn’t been willing to dedicate their skills and often their lives to making this not just another building, but a monument to human achievement.
如果大批能工巧匠不愿意奉獻技藝甚至生命來造就這尊人類成就的豐碑——并不僅僅是又一棟建筑——所有的錢都沒用。
2.Certainly no other creature could conceive and create something of such sublime beauty. Case closed? Hardly.
可以肯定沒有其他生物能設想并創造出如此極致之美。一切塵埃落定？非也。
3.Some of the workers may well have been veterans of the First Crusade, an expedition to save the Holy Land from the infidel Muslims that waspart religious frenzy, part military adventure, and part social fad.
有些工人很可能參加過第一次十字軍東征——一場從異教徒穆斯林手中收復圣地的遠征，出于宗教信仰的高漲、軍事冒險和社會狂熱。
4.We like to think that our erratic behavior is a thing of the past, that we’ve outgrown the excesses of the Crusades. But nothing could be further from truth.
我們認定自身這種脫離常規的行為已經是過去式，人類早已擺脫了十字軍這種極端行為。然而，大錯特錯。
神詞組
1.Remarkable phenomenon不尋常的現象
2.Scores of musicians/ an army of
people大批音樂家/一大群人
3.How far we
human have comein such a short time在如此短的時間里，我們人類取得了多大的成就
4.The sight of …. Is almostenough tomake a believer of even the most skeptical.這一景象幾乎足以讓最懷疑宗教的人變成信徒
5.Medieval equivalent of the
modern effort等同于現代壯舉的中世紀成就
6.Reshape our destiny重塑我們的命運
7.Set goals/pursue goals設立目標/追逐目標
8.Be ashamed of …為…感到羞愧
9.Fall for ….為…所傾倒
10.Alternate between…在…之間交替
11.Wrestle with sth與…搏斗
12.Get off the ground make a
successful beginning；get a good start開始很成功；順利
13.Contradictory drives互相矛盾的人性沖動
