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BOOKS CAN TAKE US TRAVELING
書籍可以帶我們?nèi)ヂ眯?/div>
Books can take you traveling to lands far across the ' sea. In your own home, in a comfortable chair, you can explore places where very few men have ever been. You can live among people whose language you cannot speak, and who could not understand you if you talked to them. You can watch them work and play. You will be surprised at the strange things they do. Some of their ways of living will seem almost funny to you. Then, you will be just as surprised to learn that these people of far-away lands are in many ways like the people in our own land. The boys and girls have their lessons to learn; they have holidays to celebrate; they like to play and have good times.
書籍可以帶你到遙遠的彼岸旅行。在你自己的家里，坐在舒適的椅子上，你可以探索很少有人去過的地方。你可以生活在那些你不會說他們的語言的人中間，如果你和他們說話，他們也聽不懂你的話。你可以看他們工作和玩耍。你會對他們所做的奇怪的事情感到驚訝。他們的一些生活方式對你來說幾乎是有趣的。然后，你會同樣驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn)，這些來自遙遠國度的人在許多方面與我們自己國家的人相似。男孩和女孩有他們的課程要學習；他們有節(jié)日來慶祝；他們喜歡玩，玩得很開心。
Of course, it would be much more fun to travel and see these things ourselves. But not many of us can do so. Even in a lifetime we could not visit all the places and learn all the things that we find in travel books.
當然，親自去旅行看看這些東西會更有趣。但我們當中沒有多少人能做到這一點。即使窮盡一生，我們也不能參觀所有的地方，學習所有我們在旅游書籍中發(fā)現(xiàn)的東西。
You have already been traveling in this book—^with Admiral Byrd at the South Pole; on the snowy trail from Nenana to Nome; in Africa on a midnight lion hunt. Now you are going to read four more stories of other lands. Mrs. Crew will tell you of Mario, Fioretta, Annina, and Tino Bernado, whose land she has often visited; Caroline Mabry writes of Esteban and holiday celebrations in Porto Rico; Eunice Tietjens tells of Abdul Aziz, an Arab boy of North Africa; and Margaret Morley will take you high up in the Alps Mountains in Austria, and show you wood-carvers at work making toy horses, wagons, and dolls.
在這本書里，你已經(jīng)和伯德上將在南極旅行過了；從娜拿娜到諾姆的雪道上；在非洲進行午夜獵獅?，F(xiàn)在你要讀另外四個關于其他國家的故事?？唆敺蛉藭嬖V你馬里奧、菲奧雷塔、安娜娜和蒂諾·伯納多的情況，她經(jīng)常去他們家做客；卡羅琳·馬布里寫了關于埃斯特班和波爾圖里科的節(jié)日慶?；顒樱挥饶菟埂さ俳鹚怪v述了北非阿拉伯男孩阿卜杜勒·阿齊茲的故事；瑪格麗特·莫利會帶你到奧地利阿爾卑斯山脈的高處，向你展示制作玩具馬、馬車和玩偶的木工。
