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旅游英语：克里特岛介 旅游英语：克里特岛介 旅旅游游英英语语：：克克里里特特岛岛介介 绍 绍 绍绍 旅游英语：克里特岛介绍 旅游英语：克里特岛介绍 旅旅游游英英语语：：克克里里特特岛岛介介绍绍 旅游英语：克里特岛介绍 旅游英语：克里特岛介绍 旅旅游游英英语语：：克克里里特特岛岛介介绍绍 本文整理：厦门培训中心 Somewhere deep in Cretes mountains is the cave where Zeus was raised. As you might recall from Greek mythology, Zeus was the supreme god, the one with the unnerving ability to throw thunderbolts. He was born into what today might be called a dysfunctional family. His father wanted him dead. But his mother, Rhea, who knew a trick or two, hid her baby boy to be raised in a cave on Cretes highest mountain. 克里特岛深山中的某个洞穴，就是宙斯生长的地方。你可能记得，在希腊神话中，宙斯 是至高无上的天神，拥有击发雷霆的骇人力量。在今天看来，他可说是生于一个不正常的家 庭。他的父亲想置他于死地，幸好母亲莉亚懂得略施小计，把小男婴藏到克里特岛最高一座 山上的洞穴里。 Crete, Greeces largest island, just may be one of the most perfect vacation spots in Europe because virtually all vacationers whims can be met on this 130-mile-long chunk of sea-bound rock. And it should get even more attractive once the 2004 Olympics arrive in Greece. Football matches will be held at the 27,000-seat Pankrition Stadium in Iraklion, scheduled for completion this December. 克里特岛是希腊最大的岛屿，它之所以能跻身欧洲最完美的度假胜地之列，可能就是因 为在这块四面环海长130英里的巨大盘石上，度假旅客的万千遐想几乎都能实现。而在2004 年希腊奥运之后，它势将获得更多注目。奥运足球赛将在伊拉克里翁市的庞克瑞逊体育馆时 行，这座可容纳 27,000 名观众的体育馆预定于今年 12 月竣工。 Its beaches rival those of the Caribbean but its resorts are cheaper. The price-conscious Brits Discovered it years ago and run daily charters to the island. The island boasts 300 days of sunshine each year. Its mountains are breezily cool and inhabited mostly by goats and their herders. It also has stunning historic sites like the famed 4,000-year-old Minoan palace of Knossos. For more energetic visitors, Crete boasts one of Europes finest mountain hikes, down the Samaria Gorge. Its seaside towns are so romantically charming, youll be tempted