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1、The World of Unsolved Secrets Bermuda TriangleMystery of the time tunnelThe Mystery of PyramidBermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devils Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircrafts and surface vessels （水面船只）allegedlydisappear
2、ed under mysterious circumstances allege：v.1.断言，宣称断言，宣称 Police allege that he was murdered. 警方声称他是被人谋杀的。警方声称他是被人谋杀的。 He alleged illness as a reason for not going to work. 他宣称有病，作为不去他宣称有病，作为不去上班的理由。上班的理由。2.提出提出The divorce suit alleged that she had been cheating on her husband. 点击点击发音发音离婚起诉提出她对丈夫不忠。离婚
3、起诉提出她对丈夫不忠。They also alleged that the decrease in recycling would cause an increase in mining and logging in the region. 他们还提出，回收的减少将导致该地区开矿和伐木量的增加。他们还提出，回收的减少将导致该地区开矿和伐木量的增加。allegedly：adv.1.依其申述，据说，据称依其申述，据说，据称 Hes under arrest for allegedly embezzling funds from the company. 他因为他因为被指挪用公款已经被逮捕了。被指挪
4、用公款已经被逮捕了。 He is allegedly a police agent. 据传他是警方的密探。据传他是警方的密探。The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones Two years later, Fate magazine published Sea Mystery at Our Back Door“,a short art
5、icle by George X. Sands article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular（三角） area where the losses took place. Flight 19 alone would be covered in the April 1962 issue of American Legion Magazine. (美国退伍军人协会）It was claimed that the flight leader had been heard saying “We are entering whit
6、e water（溅起白色浪花的水面）, nothing seems right. We dont know where we are, the water is green, no white.” It was also claimed that officials at the Navy（海军） board of inquiry stated that the planes flew off to Mars. lay out1、铺开，展开，摊开She took a deck of cards and began to lay them out.她拿了一副扑克，开始摆牌。2、阐述；讲解；说明
7、Cuomo laid it out in simple language.科莫用简单的语言作了解释。3、规划，布置，设计（场地或建筑）Only people that use a kitchen all the time understand the best way to lay it out只有经常使用厨房的人才会懂得如何设计好厨房。4、为（死者）做殡葬准备（或化妆）Friends laid out the body.朋友们为他入殓。5、把（某人）击倒在地Andy turned round, marched over to Chris and just laid him out.安迪转过身
8、，大步走向克里斯，一拳把他击倒在地。Flight 19 Flight 19 was a training flight of TBM Avenger bombers （轰炸机）that went missing on December 5, 1945, while over the Atlantic. The squadrons flight path was scheduled to take them due east for 120 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 120-mile leg that would
9、return them to the naval base（海军基地）, but they never returned.A search and rescue Mariner （水手）aircraft with a 13-man crew was dispatched to aid the missing squadron, but the Mariner itself was never heard from again. Later, there was a report from a tanker（油轮） cruising off the coast of Florida of a v
10、isible explosion at about the time the Mariner would have been on patrol. Mystery of the time tunnelA medium that helps us get through the timeThe movie The Time Tunnel A knight（骑士） and his jester （小丑）are plagued（折磨） by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard（男巫）.
11、 However, something goes wrong and they are transported from the 13th century to the year 2000. There the knight meets some of his family and slowly learns what this new century is like. However, he still needs to get back to the 13th century to deal with the witch, so he starts looking for a wizard
12、.The Mystery of PyramidEgyptian pyramidsThe Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt（埃及）.There are many things of the Egyptian pyramids that surprise us . One of them is the structure of it .Pyramids were constructed wholly of stone which are very big and heav
13、y.Khufu（胡夫）But more surprising miracle is,however, not the majestic（庄严的） pyramids of Khufu posture, but the number of coincidences: people now know,the distance from the Earth to the sun is 146.24 million km, and the average distance between the Sun is 146590000 km, being a unit （单位）of astronomical
14、（天文学）measurement; If the current height of the pyramid of Khufu 146.59 meters get multiplied by the billions, the result is exactly 146,590,000 kilometers! 但更为令人吃惊的奇迹，并不是胡夫金字塔的庞大，而是发生在胡夫金字塔上的数字“巧合”：人们到现在已经知道，从地球到太阳的距离，也就在14624万公里到15136万公里之间，而人们将地球与太阳之间的平均距离14659万公里作为一个天文度量单位；如果把胡夫金字塔的高度146.59米乘以十亿，其
15、结果正好是14659万。 In addition to these figures related to astronomy, geography, outside the perimeter（周长） of the bottom of the pyramid of Khufu, if divided by the height of the double get manufacturers to 3.14159, which is pi, and its far more accurate than the Greeks, calculated pi as 3.1428, and Zu Cho
16、ng Zhis result 3.1415926 - 3.1415927. Meanwhile, inside the Pyramid of Khufu Hall room right triangle, the side ratio （比率）of 3:4:5, the value reflects the Pythagorean theorem 勾股定理 除了这些有关天文地理的数字以外，胡夫金字塔的底部周长如果除以其高度的两倍，得到的商为3.14159，这就是圆周率，它的精确度远远超过希腊人算出的圆周率3.1428，与中国的祖冲之算出的圆周率在3.1415926-3.1415927之间相比，几乎是完全一致的。同时，胡夫金字塔内部的直角三角形厅室，各边之比为3：4：5，体现了勾股定理的数值。此外，胡夫金字塔的总重量约为6000万吨，如果乘以10的 15次方，正好是地球的重量！
