第43讲阅读理解：The Travels of Ibn Battuta（一） 职称英语综合B精讲课件.ppt

The Travels of Ibn Battuta伊本白图泰游记 （第一段）“I left Tangier, my birthplace, the 13th of June 1325 with the intention of making the pilgrimage（朝圣） [ to Mecca]... to leave all my friends both female and male, to abandon my home as birds abandon their nests. ” So begins an old manuscript in a library in Paris—the travel journal of Ibn Battuta. （第二段）Almost two centuries before Columbus（哥伦布）, this young Moroccan（摩洛哥人） set off（出发） for Mecca（麦加）, returning home three decades later as one of historys great travelers. Driven（驱动） by curiosity（好奇）, he journeyed to remote comers of the Islamic（伊斯兰教的）world, t