神句
1.All the money would have been worthless if legions of craftsmen hadn’t been willing to dedicate their skills and often their lives to making this not just another building, but a monument to human achievement.
如果大批能工巧匠不愿意奉献技艺甚至生命来造就这尊人类成就的丰碑——并不仅仅是又一栋建筑——所有的钱都没用。
2.Certainly no other creature could conceive and create something of such sublime beauty. Case closed? Hardly.
可以肯定没有其他生物能设想并创造出如此极致之美。一切尘埃落定？非也。
3.Some of the workers may well have been veterans of the First Crusade, an expedition to save the Holy Land from the infidel Muslims that waspart religious frenzy, part military adventure, and part social fad.
有些工人很可能参加过第一次十字军东征——一场从异教徒穆斯林手中收复圣地的远征，出于宗教信仰的高涨、军事冒险和社会狂热。
4.We like to think that our erratic behavior is a thing of the past, that we’ve outgrown the excesses of the Crusades. But nothing could be further from truth.
我们认定自身这种脱离常规的行为已经是过去式，人类早已摆脱了十字军这种极端行为。然而，大错特错。
神词组
1.Remarkable phenomenon不寻常的现象
2.Scores of musicians/ an army of
people大批音乐家/一大群人
3.How far we
human have comein such a short time在如此短的时间里，我们人类取得了多大的成就
4.The sight of …. Is almostenough tomake a believer of even the most skeptical.这一景象几乎足以让最怀疑宗教的人变成信徒
5.Medieval equivalent of the
modern effort等同于现代壮举的中世纪成就
6.Reshape our destiny重塑我们的命运
7.Set goals/pursue goals设立目标/追逐目标
8.Be ashamed of …为…感到羞愧
9.Fall for ….为…所倾倒
10.Alternate between…在…之间交替
11.Wrestle with sth与…搏斗
12.Get off the ground make a
successful beginning；get a good start开始很成功；顺利
13.Contradictory drives互相矛盾的人性冲动
