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1、帮你解决一切难题包括企业和个人一切的一切 http:/ 现在=免费注册=(用你的姓名抢注）享受会员功能极力推荐。补充一下信息实名认证要用到身份证相片用手机照下来然后上传上去就行了，实名认证是对用户资料的真实性进行验证审核。保障用户的合法权益。英语国家概况学习资料精华 英语国家概况名词解释系列（1） Amerigo Vespucci-Amerigo Vespucci, a navigator, proved that the land was not India,but a new continent. Therefore, the land was named America after.Th
2、e Puritans-The Puritans were wealthy, well-educated gentlemen. They wanted to purify the Church of England and threatened with religious persecution, the Puritans leaders saw the New world as the a refuge provided by God for those He meant to save.英语国家概况名词解释系列（2） The Bill of Rights-In 1789, James Ma
3、dison introduced in the House of Representatives a series of amendments which later were drafted into twelve proposed amendments and sent to the states for ratification. Ten of them were ratified in 1791 and the first ten amendments to the constitution were called the Bills of Rights because they we
4、re to insure individual liberties.The Emancipation Proclamation-After the Civil war began, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to win more support at home and abroad. It granted freedom to all slaves in areas still controlled by the Confederacy.英语国家概况名词解释系列（3） Pilgrims Thanksgiving Day-The
5、Pilgrims in 1620, 201 of them sailed to the New World in a ship called Mayflower. The first winter after their arrival was very cold and when spring came, half of them were dead. Then the Indians came to their help and taught them how to grow corn. They had a good harvest that year. So they invited
6、the Indians and held the first Thanksgiving celebration in America to give thanks to God.The Chunnel-In 1985 the British government and French government decided to build a channel tunnel, which is called “Chunnel”, under the Straits of Dover so that England and France could be joined together by ro
7、ad. The Chunnel was open to traffic in May 1994.英语国家概况名词解释系列（4） Eisteddfod-Eisteddfod is the Welsh word for “sitting” National Eidteddfod is the most famous festival of music and verse in Wales. It takes place each August and lasts for about a week. The highlight of the festival is competition for t
8、he best epic poem about Wales written and read in Welsh. The winner is crowned Board, considered the supreme honour in Wales. In this way the Welsh people keep the Welsh language and culture alive.Cockney-A cockney is a Londoner who is born within the sound of Bow Bells-the Bells of the church of St
9、. Mary-LeBow in east London.英语国家概况名词解释系列（5） Stonehenge-It is a group of huge monuments of grant rock Slabs on salisbury plain in Southwest England built as long ago as the New Stone Age. It is generally believed that stonehenge served some sort of religious purposes.The Celts-The Celts came to Brita
10、in in three main waves. The first wave were the Gales, the second wave were the Brythons and the Belgae came about 150BC. The Celts were practised farmers. The Celtic tribes are ancestors of the Highland Scots, the Irish and the Welsh, And their languages are the basis of both Welsh and Gaelic. They
11、 religion was Druidism.英语国家概况名词解释系列（6） Norman Conquest-The Norman Conquest of 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 fe
12、udal system was completely established in England.Alfred the Great-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 k
13、ing at peacetime. He encouraged education and introduced a legal system. He is known as “the father of the British navy”.英语国家概况名词解释系列（7） St. Augustine-In 597,Pope Gregory I sent St. Augustine, the Prior of St. Andrews Monastery in Rome, to England to convert the heathen English to Christianity. That
14、 year, St. Augustine became the first Archbishop of Canterbury. Augustine 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.Domesday Book-It is a book compiled by a group o
15、f 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 est
16、ablish the full feudal system in England. Today, it is kept in the Public Records Office in London.英语国家概况名词解释系列（8） Geoffrey Chaucer-He was an important English poet in the fourteenth century. His best known is The Canterbury Tales, which describes a group of pilgrims travelling to Canterbury to visit Thomas Beckets tomb. Because he was the first important English poe
