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.
如果成批的工匠們沒有為此傾盡全力甚至付出生命则剃，或是把這座人類成就的里程碑僅僅當(dāng)做普通建筑來建造的話虽画，所有投資也就付諸東流了。
2.Certainly no other creature could conceive and create something of such sublime beauty. Case closed? Hardly.
毫無疑問，再?zèng)]有其他生物能構(gòu)思并創(chuàng)造出如此莊重的美麗节仿。這就完了？并不。
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 was part religious frenzy, part military adventure, and part social fad.
一些工人可能也是十字軍第一次東征的老兵熬甫。這場(chǎng)意圖從穆斯林異教徒手中“拯救”圣地的遠(yuǎn)行，三分是來自宗教的憤怒蔓罚，三分是軍事冒險(xiǎn)椿肩，剩下的是集體性的狂熱。
4.We like to think that our erratic behaviour isa thing of the past, that we’ve outgrown the excesses of the Crusades. But nothing could be further from truth.
我們以為自己不會(huì)再重復(fù)十字軍東征這樣的錯(cuò)誤了豺谈，那完全是自欺欺人郑象。
神詞組
1.Remarkable phenomenon
驚為天人
2.Scores of musicians/ an army of people
諸多音樂家/一大群人
3.How far we human have comein such a short time
我們?nèi)祟愒跇O短的時(shí)間內(nèi)取得了這么大的成就
4.Thesight of …. Is almost enough tomake a believer of even
the most skeptical.
看到…的第一眼，即使是最質(zhì)疑宗教的人也會(huì)成為信徒茬末。
5.Medieval equivalent of the modern effort
在中世紀(jì)的成就相當(dāng)于如今
6.Reshape our destiny
重塑了我們的命運(yùn)
7.Set goals/pursue goals
設(shè)立目標(biāo)/努力實(shí)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)
8.Be ashamed of …
為…感到慚愧
9.Fall for ….
為…傾倒
10.Alternate between…
在…之間轉(zhuǎn)換
11.Wrestle with sth
與…抗?fàn)?/p>
12.Get off the ground
開展厂榛，開始
13.Contradictory drives
相互矛盾的動(dòng)力
