羅馬中文導遊詞
篇一:意大利英文導遊詞
Italy-A Beautiful and Charming Land
意大利:美麗神奇之國
一、 Name名字的由來)
The name "Italy" is extremely old. It seems to have been used first in documents of the 5th century BC. To describe a small territory at the tip of the boot-shaped peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea. Historians used to think that the name came from that of a legendary king, Italo. "意大利"這一名字極其古老。它最早被用在公元前5世紀的文件中,指延伸進地中海的靴形半島頂端的那一小塊領土。歷史學傢過去一直認為它取自一位傳奇國王-意大洛的名字。人們還提出許多有獨創性但卻不大可能的理論來解釋這一名字的來源。
No matter what its origins, the name of that small territory at the tip of the boot spreads, little by little, to indicate the whole peninsula. By about AD1000 the name designated a region, a dialect, and a culture. But it was not until the mid-19th century that the many separate nations on the peninsula were united into one nation, the nation to which




