历史专业英语=English for the Students Majoring in History

Unit One Greco-Roman Civilization 1

Part One General History:Ancient Times:Greece and Rome 1

Part Two Article:On Spartan Strategy 11

Part Three Original Record:From Augustus to Tiberius 17

Unit Two Classical Civilization of China 25

Part One General History:Classics and Chin Empire 25

Part Two Article:State Control of Bureaucrats 34

Part Three Original Record:Classics from Lun Yü,Mencius,and Yao Tien 40

Unit Three Great Three Religions 46

Part One General History:The Rise of Islam 46

Part Two Article:The Sinicization of Buddhism 56

Part Three Original Records:Sentences from the Holy Bible 61

Unit Four The Chinese Empire Opening to the World 67

Part One General History:The Growth of Han Empire 67

Part Two Article:Sale of Office in the Later Han 76

Part Three Original Record:The Selections from New Discourses 82

Unit Five The Flowering of Traditional China 88

Part One General History:The Sui,Tang,and Song Dynasties 88

Part Two Article:Military Families and the Southern Song 97

Part Three Original Record:The Turfan Documents 102

Unit Six Italian Renaissance 108

Part One General History:Origins&Art 108

Part Two Article:The Discovery of the Individual in Renaissance Europe 118

Part Three Original Record:The Prince 124

Unit Seven Absorption of Nomadic Civilization into Agricultural Civilization 130

Part One General History:China in the Mongol Empire 130

Part Two Article:What Set the Mongols in Motion？ 139

Part Three Original Record:Khubilai's Life in Shandu 144

Unit Eight The Empire Trying to Be“Blue China” 150

Part One General History:The Maritime Expedition of Zheng He 150

Part Two Article:From Rebel Base to Imperial Capital 159

Part Three Original Record:Stone Record of the Pacification of the Pirates 164

Unit Nine Religious Reform 170

Part One General History:Luther and Lutheranism 170

Part Two Article:The Diversity of Revelations 179

Part Three Original Record:Institutes of the Christian Religion 185

Unit Ten Iberian Expansion 190

Part One General History:Portugal's and Spain's Colonial Conquest 190

Part Two Article:The Theory of Natural Slavery 200

Part Three Original Record:The Documents of Iberian Expansion 206

Unit Eleven The Last Dynasty of China's Dynastic Circle 213

Part One General History:The Ching Dynasty Before 1800 213

Part Two Article:Social Discrimination in Traditional China 222

Part Three Original Record:A Bridge and Its Man 227

Unit Twelve Three Bourgeois Revolutions 234

Part One General History:The English Revolution 234

Part Two Article:The Central Themes of the American Revolution 245

Part Three Original Record:The Documents of French Bourgeois Revolution 251

Unit Thirteen Industrial Revolution 257

Part One General History:The Age of Machines 257

Part Two Article:The Industrial Revolution—an Overview 268

Part Three Original Record:Reminiscences of the First Railroad Over the Allegheny Mountain（1879） 273

Unit Fourteen The Semi-Colonial and Semi-Feudalist China 280

Part One General History:The Opium War 280

Part Two Article:The Great Policy Debate in China,1874:Maritime Defense vs Frontier Defense 290

Part Three Original Record:Treaty of Nanjing（Nanking）,1842 296

Unit Fifteen The Meiji Restoration of Japan 303

Part One General History:The Establishment of the New Government 303

Part Two Article:The Military 314

Part Three Original Record:Thoughts on the Political Economy 319

Unit Sixteen Two World Wars 325

Part One General History:The First World War 325

Part Two Article:Nazi Foreign Policy 336

Part Three Original Record:The Documents of WW Ⅱ 343

Unit Seventeen Russian Revolution of 1917 349

Part One General History:The Revolution of 1917 349

Part Two Article:The Sources of Soviet Conduct 360

Part Three Original Record:The October Revolution 365

Unit Eighteen The Rise of Modern China 370

Part One General History:The Birth of the People's Republic 370

Part Two Article:To Reform a Revolution:Under the Righteous Mandate 379

Part Three Original Record:The War of Resistance Against Japan 385

Unit Nineteen The Cold War 391

Part One General History:The Beginning of the Cold War 391

Part Two Article:US Foreign Policy and Origins of the Cold War 401

Part Three Original Record:The Iron Curtain 407

Unit Twenty China on the Way to a Rich Power 413

Part One General History:Economic Reform and the Open Door Policy 413

Part Two Article:The Rise of China 421

Part Three Original Record:Deng Xiaoping's Speech 427

附：翻译练习参考答案 432

Unit One 432

Unit Two 434

Unit Three 436

Unit Four 438

Unit Five 440

Unit Six 442

Unit Seven 444

Unit Eight 446

Unit Nine 447

Unit Ten 449

Unit Eleven 450

Unit Twelve 452

Unit Thirteen 453

Unit Fourteen 455

Unit Fifteen 456

Unit Sixteen 458