1、法语学习Mpmxne托福雅思考试很有用的写作资料英文版的名人生平大全 写作素材 共35页秋风清，秋月明,落叶聚还散,寒鸦栖复惊。Biography of HomerHomer is the man who, according to legend, wrote the two great epics of Greek history: the Iliad (the tale of the Trojan War) and the Odyssey (about the travels of). Both books are considered landmarks in human literat
2、ure and Homer is therefore often cited as the starting point of Western literary and historical tradition. The details of Homers life are a mystery; some scholars believe that no such man ever existed, and that the works credited to him were actually told and gathered by many people over many centur
3、ies. Other stories give various birthplaces and ages for Homer and suggest he was a wandering poet or minstrel. Homer is usually said to have been blind, a point on which nearly all the legends agree. Biography of AristotleAristotle is one of the big three in ancient Greek philosophy, along with and
4、. (Socrates taught Plato, who in turn instructed Aristotle.) Aristotle spent nearly 20 years at Platos Academy, first as a student and then as a teacher. After Platos death he travelled widely and educated a famous pupil, , the Macedonian who nearly conquered the world. Later Aristotle began his own
5、 school in Athens, known as the Lyceum. Aristotle is known for his carefully detailed observations about nature and the physical world, which laid the groundwork for the modern study of biology. Among his works are the texts Physics, Metaphysics, Rhetoric and Ethics. Biography of ArchimedesArchmedes
6、 (ar-ke-me-deez), a renowned mathematician. His astonishing skill in mechanics was such that some of the greatest real triumphs of antiquity may be ascribed to him. His inventions amazed his contemporaries: the lifting of weights by means of pulleys and the endless screw are among them. A Roman hist
7、orian celebrates the warlike engines produced by the skill of Archimedes. His mind ever fruitful of extraordinary resources, when Syracuse was besieged by Marcellus, he constructed a burning-glass on a scale of such magnitude that by means of it the enemys fleet was fired. Eventually, the city being
8、 taken, he was found among the slain.Biography of Dante An exiled and wandering figure during his writing lifetime, Dante is now considered Italys greatest poet - so much a literary giant that he is generally known by his first name alone. The Divine Comedy, by far his most famous work, is the story
9、 of a journey through Hell, Purgatory and finally Paradise. (The journey through Hell is often referred to independently as Dantes Inferno.) In the poem the first two stages are guided by the Roman poet, and the final visit to Paradise is led by a woman named Beatrice - a girl Dante met briefly when
10、 he was nine and whom he idolized the rest of his life. The Divine Comedy is the source of many famous classical images, inspiring works by and others, and is famous for its inscription on the gates of Hell: All hope abandon, ye who enter here. Joan of Arc (1412-1431)A hero of the Hundred Years War,
11、 Joan of Arc remains a French national hero six centuries later. As a teenager she heard voices from on high urging her to save France from English domination. Despite being a young woman, she was placed at the head of an army; she attacked the English and forced them to retreat from Orlans. Later s
12、he was captured by the English, tried for heresy, and burned at the stake. In 1920 she was canonized by the Catholic Church. Christopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus was born in 1451 Calvi (), northwest of the island, 200km from Ajaccio. He was the oldest of five children. As a child, he helped his
13、father as a weaver. He always liked the sea. Genoa was an important seaport. There is no doubt that as a child he caught rides on ships. He had little schooling but was a genius with the sea. His plan was not to prove that the world was flat, but it was to find a shortcut to the Spice Islands. He wa
14、nted to establish a city there for trade, seaports, and much more. When he grew into a man he was interested in sailing to Asia by going west. First he went to the king of and presented his idea before him. Italy wasnt looking for a way to Asia, they were still recieving riches from their old trade
15、routes. His three ships were the Santa Maria, the Nina, and the Pinta. Pensacola News Journal - 路 FOUNDED/ESTABLISHED: 1828. 路 HISTORY: This city, named for Christopher Columbus, is located on a bluff overlooking the Chattahoochee River. It is the third largest city in Georgia and the fourth largest
16、 metropolitan area in the state. Coca-Cola . Philadelphia Enquirer - COLUMBUS, Ga. - Georgia schools students usually are allowed no more than five non-excused absences before they are considered truant. The boys of summer from Columbus who are still swinging away in the Little League World Series h
17、ave been given the . Toledo Blade - COLUMBUS - St. Francis de Sales outgained Columbus DeSales by 187 yards, but DeSales' special teams were superior in knocking off the Knights 24-21 last night in a season-opener. After Knights quarterback Matt Meinert hit Mike Jesionowski for a six . Leonardo
18、 da VinciLeonardo da Vinci is best remembered as the painter of the (1503-1506) and The Last Supper (1495). But hes almost equally famous for his astonishing multiplicity of talents: he dabbled in architecture, sculpture, engineering, geology, hydraulics and the military arts, all with success, and
19、in his spare time doodled parachutes and flying machines that resembled inventions of the 19th and 20th centuries. He made detailed drawings of human anatomy which are still highly regarded today. Leonardo also was quirky enough to write notebook entries in mirror (backwards) script, a trick which k
20、ept many of his observations from being widely known until decades after his death. Nicolas CopernicusNicolas Copernicus was born into a well-to-do family, and after his father died in 1483 he was put under the guardianship of his uncle, a bishop of Warmia (Poland). He went to university in Krakow a
21、nd spent a decade in Italy, studying law and mathematics. A canon of the cathedral at Frombork, Copernicus carried out administrative duties and, from his house, observed the stars and planets. For years he worked on his theory that the planets in our solar system revolved around the sun (Ptolemy of
22、 ancient Greece had explained that the universe was a closed system revolving around the earth, and the Catholic church concurred). Hesitant to publish his work for fear of being charged with heresy, Copernicus summarized it in 1530 and circulated it among Europes scholars, where it was greeted with
23、 enthusiasm. His work, titled De revolutionibus orbium coelestium was finally published in 1543, apparently just a few weeks before he diedSocratesSocrates is credited with laying the foundation for Western philosophical thought. His Socratic Method involved asking probing questions in a give-and-ta
24、ke which would eventually lead to the truth. Socratess iconoclastic attitude didnt sit well with everyone, and at age 70 he was charged with heresy and corruption of local youth. Convicted, he carried out the death sentence by drinking hemlock, becoming one of historys earliest martyrs of conscience
25、. Socratess most famous pupil was, who in turn instructed the philosopher ConfuciusAlso Known As: Kong Fu-Zi Confucius was a teacher, scholar and minor political figure, whose commentary on Chinese literary classics developed into a pragmatic philosophy for daily life. Not strictly religious, his te
26、achings were a utilitarian approach to social harmony and the moral obligations between individuals and social systems.Biography of Michelangelo Buonarroti Perhaps the greatest influence on western art in the last five centuries, Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, architect, painter and poet in t
27、he period known as the High Renaissance. His great works were almost entirely in the service of the Catholic Church, and include a huge statue of the Biblical hero David (over 14 feet tall) in Florence, sculpted between 1501 and 1504, and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome (commissioned by),
28、painted between 1508 and 1512. After 1519 Michelangelo was increasingly active in architecture; he designed the dome of St. Peters Basilica, completed after his death. Along with contemporaries and, he is considered one of the great masters of European art.Ferdinand MagellanPortuguese name: Fernao d
29、e MagalhaesMagellan was born in Portugal, but it was under the Spanish flag that he sailed in 1519 with the intention of reaching the Spice Islands by sailing west around South America. After much hardship he succeeded in reaching and then sailing across the Pacific Ocean. Soon thereafter he was kil
30、led while trying to subdue the natives on what is now the island of Mactan in the Philippines. After still more hardships, one of his original five ships, Victoria, eventually made it back to Spain. Though Magellan didnt complete the entire circumnavigation, as the expeditions leader he is usually c
31、redited with being the first man to circle the globeMiguel de CervantesFull name: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraCervantes wrote the epic satire, regarded as the first true modern novel. Little is known of Cervantess early life; at 23 he enlisted in the Spanish militia and then fought against the Turks
32、 in the battle of Lepanto (1571) where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtors prison that he began to write Don Quixote. The, a dreamy middle-aged nobleman, sets out through Spain on a makeshift quest to fight injustice through acts of chivalry. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but none had the impact or popularity of his masterpiece.Shakes
