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Airplanes, radios, dog-teams, horses, trains—we have read about all these ways of carrying men or sending messages.
飛機、收音機、狗隊、馬、火車，我們已經讀了所有這些關于客運和通信的方式。
We perhaps understand a little better how man has made the world smaller.
我們也許能更好地理解人類是如何把世界變得更小的。
There are other ways, too.
當然，世界上還有其他的運輸通信方式。
Make a list of all the ways men send messages.
列舉出人們所有的通信方式。
Make another list of the ways they travel.
列舉出人們其他的出行方式。
Write down the different ways you have traveled and sent messages.
寫出你所使用的所有的出行與通信方式。
Your class might like to gather pictures of ways of traveling and sending messages.
可以發動班里的同學收集關于運輸通信方式的圖片，
These pictures could be put on a bulletin board.
然后把這些圖片貼在公告板上。
There was a time when traveling almost always meant danger—danger from wild animals, from cold and hunger and thirst, from savage people.
曾幾何時，旅行幾乎總是意味著危險——來自野生動物的危險，來自寒冷、饑餓和干渴的危險，來自野蠻人的危險。
Now in most parts of the world we travel in comfort and safety, and our messages speed on their way to our friends.
如今，我們可以在世界上大部分地區舒適安全地旅行；我們也能夠以更快的速度將信息傳遞給我們的朋友。
But there are still parts of the world where travel is hard, and where men wait days and even weeks for news they are eager to get.
但是，世界上仍然存在一部分出行困難的地區，在那里，人們要等上數天甚至數周才能收到自己渴望的消息。
Name five places where this is true.
列舉出5個這樣的地方。
One of the stories in this Part tells you of such a place.
本部分的其中一則故事就向你展示了這樣一個地方。
The four stories you have just read are only a few of many just as interesting.
你讀過的這4篇故事只是很多精彩故事的一小部分。
Did they show you how progress in transportation and communication makes the world grow smaller?
你有沒有從故事中看出運輸和通信的進步使得世界越來越小了呢？
Men have dug canals for boats,
人們挖運河開船；
strung thousands of miles of wire for messages,
為了傳遞信息鋪設了千萬英里的電纜；
built roads over and through mountains for trains and automobiles,
翻山越嶺為火車、汽車修建道路；
and spent long hours of patient work to invent the radio and the airplane.
花費大量的時間與耐心的工作發明出無線電和飛機。
Many books have been written about these men.
關于這些人有很多書。
