人教版高中英語必修二001

1、人教版高中英語必修二第一單元課文翻譯IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOMFrederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history. This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it

2、. The amber which was selected had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country's best artists about ten years to make.In fact, the room was not made

3、to be a gift. It was designed for the palace of Frederick I. However, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. In return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became par

4、t of the Czar's winter palace in St Petersburg. About four metres long, the room served as a small reception hall for important visitors.Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to a palace outsideSt Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details to it. In 1

5、770 the room was completed the way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold. Sadly, although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now missing.In September 1941, the Nazi army was near St Petersburg. This was a t

6、ime when the two countries were at war. Before the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able to remove some furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room. However, some of the Nazis secretly stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-s

7、even wooden boxes. There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery. Recently, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace. By

8、studying old photos of the former Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old one. In 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300th birthday of their city.尋找琥珀屋普魯士國王腓特烈·威廉一世絕不可能想到他送給俄羅斯人民的厚禮會(huì)有一段令人驚訝的歷史。這件禮物就是琥珀屋 , 它之所以有這個(gè)名字 , 是因?yàn)樵爝@間房子用了近幾噸琥珀 , 被選擇

9、的琥珀色彩艷麗 , 呈黃褐色 , 像蜜一樣。屋子的設(shè)計(jì)當(dāng)時(shí)流行的極富藝術(shù)表現(xiàn)力的建筑風(fēng)格。 琥珀屋這件珍品還鑲嵌著黃金和珠寶 , 全國最優(yōu)秀的藝術(shù)家用了是年的時(shí)間才完成它。事實(shí)上 , 琥珀屋并不是作為禮物而建造的。 它是作為腓烈特一世的宮殿而建造的。 然而 , 下一位普魯士國王 , 腓烈特·威廉一世 , 這個(gè)琥珀屋的主人卻決定不再要它了。 1716年, 他把它送給了彼得大帝。作為回饋 , 沙皇那么送給他一隊(duì)自己最好的士兵。所以 ,琥珀屋就成了沙皇在圣彼得堡東宮的一局部。琥珀屋長約 4米 , 被用作接待重要來賓的小型會(huì)客室。后來、葉卡捷琳娜二世派人把琥珀屋搬到了圣彼得堡郊外避暑的宮殿中。她讓藝術(shù)家們給它增添了更多的裝飾。 1770年 , 這間琥珀屋按她要求的方式完工了。將近 600支蠟燭照亮了這個(gè)房間 , 里面的鏡子和圖畫就像金子一樣閃閃發(fā)光。 不幸的是 , 雖然琥珀屋被認(rèn)為是世界奇跡之一 , 可是現(xiàn)在它卻下落不明。1941 年 9 月 , 納粹德國的軍隊(duì)逼近了圣彼得堡。這是兩國交戰(zhàn)的時(shí)期。在納粹分子能夠到達(dá)夏宮之前, 俄國人只來得及把琥珀屋里的一些家具和小型藝術(shù)飾品搬走?？墒晴晡荼旧韰s被一些納粹分子秘密地頭運(yùn)走了。在不到兩天的時(shí)間里, 琥珀屋被拆成10萬塊裝進(jìn)了27 個(gè)木箱里。毫無疑問 , 這些箱子后來