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英语智慧背囊04-拿破仑翻过阿尔比斯山

2009-05-07来源:和谐英语
[00:02.02]How Napoleon Crossed the Alps拿破仑是怎样越过阿尔卑斯山的
[00:04.74]In France there lived a great general whose name was Napoleon Bonaparte.
[00:11.53]He was the leader of the French army;
[00:13.51]and France was at war with nearly all the countries around.
[00:17.77]In the April of 1796, he wanted very much to take his soldiers into Italy;
[00:24.01]but between France and Italy there are high mountains called the Alps,
[00:28.39]the tops of which are covered with snow.
[00:31.00]“Is it possible to cross the Alps?”asked Napoleon.
[00:34.81]The men who had been sent to look at the passes? over the mountains shook their heads.
[00:39.95]Then one of them said,“It may be possible,but—”
[00:44.88]“Let me hear no more,”said Napoleon.“Forward? to Italy!”
[00:48.51]People laughed at the thought of an army of sixty thousand men crossing the Alps where there was no road.
[00:54.74]But Napoleon waited to see that everything was in good order,
[00:58.23]and then he gave the order to march.
[01:00.51]The long line of soldiers and horses and cannons?stretched for twenty miles.
[01:05.22]When they came to a steep place where there seemed to be no way to go farther the trumpets sounded “Charge!”
[01:11.68]Then every man did his best,and the whole army moved right onward.
[01:16.93]Soon they were safe over the Alps.In four days they were marching on the plains of Italy.
[01:22.73]“The man who has made up his mind to win,”said Napoleon,“will never say ‘Impossible’.”