澳大利亚的介绍--

1、1歌曲产生背景：1895年，彼德森同他的未婚妻莎拉。雷利（Sarah Riley ）一起，访问了莎拉的同校朋友克里斯蒂娜。麦克菲森（Christina Macpherson）在昆示兰偏远地区的家宅。在那里，他听到克里斯蒂娜用自鸣筝演奏了一首叫做“Craigeelee”的乐曲，彼德森喜欢这首曲子的 那种怪诞和梦幻的感觉，于是产生了为该曲子填歌词的想法。 主人带他在家宅附近参观的时候，他看到了池塘边一个新剥下来的羊皮。显然是有人偷了羊，把它杀了吃肉。于是主人麦克菲森告诉他在1894年9 月发生的一次剪羊毛工罢工的故事。当时，剪羊毛工放火烧了麦克菲森的家宅，还杀了一百多只羊。麦克菲森和三个警察追捕他

2、们的时候，其中一个剪羊毛工宁愿被 警察射杀也不愿被捕。彼德森受此启发，于是把这些所见所闻写成这首歌词，而克里斯蒂娜则把她弹奏的曲子记录了下来，一首传世之作就诞生了。 澳大利亚第二国歌2The natural environment of AustraliaThe distinctive features of the land The distinctive animals of the land The indigenous peoplesAustralia3The continent of Australia lies between equatorial （赤道附近的）South Eas

3、t Asia and the Antarctic . With a coastline of 30 000 kilometres and a land area of 7 682 300 km2 , it is the largest island in the world . Its land area almost equals that of the United States . It is also the smallest , flattest and driest continent in the world . The country also includes Tasmani

4、a（塔斯马尼亚岛） , an island just to the south , the Torres Straits（托雷斯海峡） Islands off the northern coast of the mainland and a small number of islands in the Pacific and the Indian Oceans .4Tasmania5Tasmania6Tasmania7Torres Straits89The distinctive features of the land Two of the countrys most distinctive

5、 physical features are the Great Dividing Range（大分水岭） and the Great Barrier Reef（大堡礁） .The Great Dividing Range extends as an almost unbroken series of plateaus（高原） down the East Coast of Australia , from northern Queensland , through New South Wales and into Victoria , whilst , off shore , the Grea

6、t Barrier Reef , the largest coral structure in the world , extends for over 2 000 kilometers along the coast of Queensland .1011the Great Barrier Reef（大堡礁）12the Great Barrier Reef（大堡礁）13the Great Barrier Reef（大堡礁）14the Great Barrier Reef（大堡礁）15the Great Barrier Reef（大堡礁）16The distinctive animalsThe

7、 continent is thought to have formed from the disintegration of Gondwana the great southern supercontinent in a process of separation occurring from 250 to 90 million years ago . Isolated from other major island masses , Australias distinctive flora（植物群） and fauna （动物群）evolved through its long perio

8、d as an island continent . Animals that are unique to the continent include .17Platypus (鸭嘴兽)Often described as the worlds most unusual animal because it is a small , web-footed（长蹼足动物） , egg-laying mammal（产卵哺乳动物） with a bill（鸟嘴） like a duck and can stay under water for as long as 14 minutes .1819202

9、1A macropod（大足的） which is sometimes as much as two meters in height . It sits upright on its extremely powerful back legs and moves by jumping . It is also a marsupial（有袋的） which means that the young “joeys” , or baby kangaroos , live in the mothers pouch（袋） until they are ready to fend for themselv

10、es（独立照顾自己） .kangaroo222324252627A squat（低矮的） round , bear-like , burrowing （挖地洞的）marsupial , about one meter in length , with short legs , small ears and eyes and a thick , coarse fur of brown or grey . Wombat （毛鼻袋熊）282930Another marsupial but one which looks like a small wooly , grey and white bear

11、 . It lives mainly in the branches of trees , especially the eucalyptus （桉树）whose leaves comprise the koalas main diet . Koala （树袋熊）313233343536eucalyptus(桉树)Australias national tree37383940acacia -Australias national flower41424344lyrebird (琴鸟)-Australias national bird45lyrebird46We do not know exa

12、ctly how long the country has been occupied but the earliest discovered site of occupation is about 47 000 years old . To put this in perspective , since the First Fleet arrived in 1788 there have been only eight generations of settlers . On the other hand , there have been at least 18 500 generatio

13、ns of the Peoples of the Dreaming . The peoples 47The Peoples of the Dreaming belonged to over 500 different groups or nations with different languages and cultures but they were bound together by their belief in the Dreaming . “The Dreaming” or “The Dreamtime” is the most enduring religion in Austr

14、alia today .48“The Dreaming” or “The Dreamtime”梦创时代，是原住民文化的重要组成部分。它是指原住民的神话中所指的远古时期，那时起球形成了其目前的形态，生命和自然的形式和周期也在那时开始。有关梦创时代的传说构成了今天原住民的价值观和社会关系。澳大利亚原住民以为只有在梦境之中，人才可以得到对远古创始期的认知，故称其为Dreaming 。49There were somewhere between 200 to 250 different languages spoken on the continent . Some of these language

15、s still exist today:The Arrernte people lived in the desert regions of Central Australia .The Thurrawai , the Dhurga and the Dyirringa peoples , lived on the fertile plains of the Illawarra in the South East . The Gundungurra and the Ngarigu are the People of the table lands and the snowfields to the west of these plains , in the land on which Canberra ,