Photo Gallery
By Tony Horwitz, author of
A Voyage Long and Strange
Rediscovering The New York
You can figure out the meaning of the unknown words from the photos. You can also refer to the following explanations.
Page 1 sketch 素描
Page 2 circa 大约
Page 3 engraving 雕版图
Page 4 paddle 划桨
Page 5 tobacco 烟草
Page 6 cannibal 食人者
Page 7 Amazon: a woman warrior
Page 8 mine 挖掘, 开采
Page 9 frontispiece 卷首插画
conquistador 征服者,西班牙征服者
hitl 柄, 刀把
Page 10 Aztec: A member of a people of central Mexico whose civilization was at its height at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century.
阿兹特克族:墨西哥中部民族的一支,其文明程度的最高峰处于16世纪初西班牙的攻占时期
Page 11 stake 树桩
Page 11 fanciful 幻想奇特的
manuscript 手稿,原稿
Page 12 Zuni: A Pueblo people located in western New Mexico.
祖尼族:居住在新墨西哥州西部的一支普韦布洛人
pueblO 印第安人村庄
Page 13 buffalo 美洲野牛
Page 14 portrait 肖像
Page 15 marble 大理石
effigy: A crude figure or dummy representing a hated person or group.
雕像:代表可憎的人或一群人的粗糙的图象或木偶
Page 16 expedition 远征,探险,考察
Page 19 fort 堡垒
Page 21 engraving 雕版图
Page 26 wipe out 消灭,杀死
settlement 定居点,殖民地