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1、本文格式为Word版，下载可任意编辑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 Andrews Monastery in 利航海家，察觉了亚马逊 areas still controlled by hi
2、ghlight 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 5epic poem about Wales Druidism. English to Christianity. written and read in Welsh. 11That year, St. Aug
3、ustine 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 2在 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
4、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
5、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
6、 good harvest that church of St. 3year. So they invited the Mary-LeBow in east Indians and held the first L o n d o n . 案-In 1789, James Thanksgiving celebration 9Madison introduced in in America to give thanks is a group of huge the House of to G o d . monuments of grant rock Representatives a seri
7、es 6The 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 fo
8、r 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 10constitution were called and France could be Celts came the Bills o
9、f 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 47诗 second wave were the 人-Eisteddfod is the Brythons and the Belgae 宣言-After the Civil Welsh word for “
10、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 Iris
11、h 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 n g la n d . 12阿尔弗莱德大帝 -He was k
12、ing 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
13、 is known as “the father of the British na v y ” . 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
14、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. 15Geoffrey 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 6
