地势崎岖不平，对于一百多年前铺设这条轨道的人们来说，必定是一项险恶的任务。加拿大太平洋铁路公司率先修建了第一条全长4600公里，横贯加拿大的铁路。1885年 11月7日在英属哥伦比亚境内一个小居民点最后一根道钉楔人地下时，铺轨任务宣告完成。大约有一万名主要来自中国的劳工修建了这条铁路。他们都是从加利福尼亚州雇用来的，以前在那里一直做类似的工作，以每天一美元的报酬，出卖体力和血汗。这条铁路用了四年半时间建成——比估计的少六年。 点击查看答案

Lord Oxford possessed most of the needed gifts of a great statesman except ruthlessness towards others and insensitiveness for himself. One wonders whether in-the conditions of the modern age a man so sensitive as he was will ever again be robust enough to expose himself to the outrages of public life. Lord Oxford protected his sensitiveness by silence, by totally refraining from retort or from complaint. He absolutely rejected the aid or the opportunities of the venal press. He could be the leader of a nation or of a party; he would hasten to protect a friend or a colleague, but he disdained to protect himself to a degree scarcely compatible with the actual conditions of contemporary life. Yet it was probably this course of behaviour, this element of character, which, increasingly with years, moulded for him the aspect of dignity, the air of sweetness and calm, the gentle ruggedness of countenance, which those who knew him after he had finally left office will carry in their memories as characteristically his. 点击查看答案