时间阶梯

Staircase of Time

IT starts far, far below the bottom of the pages and rises up, UP, UP to where we are NOW—each step a hundred years, each flight of steps a thusand. It will keep on up until it reaches high heaven. From where we are NOW let us look down the flights below us and listen to the story of what has happened in the long years gone by.

这个时间阶梯是从这幅图底层下面更远、更远的过去开始的，它逐渐上升，上升，直到我们现在的位置——每一个台阶是100年，每一段阶梯是1000年。这个阶梯还要不断上升，直到天空。让我们从我们现在的位置看一看下面的阶梯，听一听在那漫长的、已逝的年代里发生的故事吧。

A Child's Geography of the world begins here.

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