[新东方背诵文选80篇：44从冰山中获取淡水ObtainingFre]44 Obtaining Fresh Water from Icebergs The concept of obtaining fresh water from icebergs that are towed to populated areas and arid regions of the world was on...+阅读

08 American Revolution

The American Revolution was not a revolution in the sense of a radical or total change. It was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated evolution rather than outright revolution. During the conflict itself people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not seriously disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the more isolated munities scarcely knew that a war was on. America's War of Independence heralded the birth of three modern nations. One was Canada, which received its first large influx of English-speaking population from the thousands of loyalists who fled there from the United States. Another was Australia, which became a penal colony now that America was no longer ailable for prisoners and debtors. The third newer -- the United States -- based itself squarely on republican principles.

Yet even the political overturn was not so revolutionary as one might suppose. In some states, notably Connecticut and Rhode Island, the war largely ratified a colonial self-rule already existing. British officials, everywhere ousted, were replaced by a home-grown governing class, which promptly sought a local substitute for king and Parliament.

美国革命

美国革命其实并不算是一场革命，因为它并未导致完全的和彻底的变化。 这次革命并不是对政治和社会框架的一次突然和猛烈的*，象后来在已经是独立国家的法国和俄国所爆发的革命那样。 革命带来了重大的变化，但并非翻天覆地，所发生的只是进化的加速，而不是一场彻底的革命；在冲突期间，人们仍然上班、做礼拜、结婚、玩耍。 多数人并没有受到实际战斗的严重影响。 许多较闭塞的社区对这场战争几乎一无所知。美国独立战争宣布了三个现代国家的诞生，其中一个是加拿大。 加拿大的第一大批讲英语的流入人口来自于成千上万英王的效忠者， 这些人从美国逃到了加拿大。 另一个国家是澳大利亚，因为美国不再是容纳罪犯和欠债者的国度了，澳大利亚就变成了一个惩治罪犯的殖民地(注：独立战争前，英国政府将罪犯流放到美国)。 第三个国家就是美国，它完全建立在共和原则基础上。即使政治上的*也不如人们可能想象的那样具有革命性。 在一些州，特别是康涅狄格和罗德岛，战争基本上只是承认了已经存在的殖民地的自治。 四处被驱逐的英国官员都被本土的统治阶级所替代，这个统治阶级迅速地以地方权力机关来替代国王和议会。

以下为关联文档：

新东方背诵文选80篇：55创造颜色CreatingColors55 Creating Colors There are two ways to create colors in a photograph. One method, called additive, starts with three basic colors and adds them together to pr...

新东方背诵文选80篇：46视觉Vision46 Vision Human vision like that of other primates has evolved in an arboreal environment. In the dense plex world of a tropical forest, it is more important to...

新东方背诵文选80篇：11考古学Archaeology11 Archaeology Archaeology is a source of history, not just a humble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not...

新东方背诵文选80篇：48细菌Bacteria48 Bacteria Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micr...

英语科普文选：LocalAreaNetwork局域网Local Area work There are two categories of works: local area works (LANs) and wide area works (WANs). Here I'd like to mainly talk about LAN. A LAN is a system...

新东方老师谈句型的灵活运用句子也是如此，我们提倡简炼，但不是说都用简单句。有人认为在写作考试中，采用简单句、短句、容易掌握，不在会出错，因而也最保险。这话没有错，但简单句用得太多，造成简单句的堆彻实际...

新东方背诵文选80篇：73显微技术TheMicroscopicTechni73 The Microscopic Technique Each advance in microscopic technique has provided scientists with new perspectives on the function of living anisms and the nature...

新东方名师谈考研英语完形填空的复习方法考研的完形填空往往被很多考生所忽视，特别是在临考之前的时候。但事实上，考研完形如果复习的好，其收获绝对不只是那20道题目10分。对于完形的复习，分为以下几个方面： 首先是词汇...

新东方靳萌点评2008考研翻译本次考试试题来源于Mayo W. Hazeltine所写的一篇学术评论，主题是关于达尔文在现代科学中的地位。 In his autobiography，Darwin himself speaks of his intellectual powers w...