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Winter weather is disrupting holiday travel in the southern US, where some parts are having a rare white Christmas. Hundreds of flights are canceled in and out of Atlanta. And National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Korty says the East Coast sho
Hi, I'm Rick Steves, here in London for the finale of our grand circle tour of Europe. This city is a rich brew, and we are going to sample freely: from the colorful market places to the historic walk
Measures Measures Linear Measure 长度 1 inch 英寸=25.4 millimetres 毫米 1 foot 英尺=12 inches 英寸=0.3048 metre 米 1 yard 码=3 feet 英尺=0.9114 metre 米 1 (statute) mile 英里=1760 yards 码 =1.609 kilometres 千米 1 nautical mile 海里
News Report Australian Waterspout Script A big twister struck the Sydney to Hobart yacht race late on Wednesday, nearly knocking out the team highly favored to win, Nicorette. Disaster struck the Swedish maxi yacht off the east coast of Australia, te
Anchors Away, Me Boysbut How Far? Anchors away, me boys but how far? On this moment of science.What happens if you throw your anchor overboard and there isnt enough chain to reach the bottom? Does the anchor haul you down with it? This sounds a littl
The boat collision is once again bringing attention to the Diaoyu Islands issue. The Diaoyu islands have a long history as part of China's territory, belonging to the country since ancient times. The islands are 200 nautical miles east of China's mai
Pentagon says Iranian fighter jet attacks U.S. drone WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Iranian fighter jet has attacked a U.S. drone but missed, so the unmanned American aircraft suffered no damage and returned safely to base, the U.S. Defense Departmen
Hi, to the students of Brown middle school. Hello to all of our viewers around the world. Broadcasting from the CNN news room, I am Carol Luzus. Our first story today takes to Egypt. The north Africa nation is dealing with violence worse than it has
This is AP news minute. 1. Republicans and democrats are going to the polls as Indiana holds its presidential primary on Tuesday. The vote is seen as one of republican Ted Cruz's last chances to try to slow down GOP front-runner Donald Trump. 2. Syri
新概念英语中表示图形的单词很多,如何才能将这些近义词的具体内在含义和用法搞清楚?下面我们一一做些解释: 1. Figure figure通常指几何图形或图案;此外书中的插图不管是什么图都可以用
AS IT IS 2016-05-07 Vietnam Bans Unsafe Seafood in Central Provinces 越南禁止死海鲜的加工与销售 Vietnamese officials have banned the processing or selling of dead seafood washed ashore or caught in an area along the countrys central coas
As a coping strategy when dealing with literary snobs (who will judge you to your face because you havent read the books they have), you sometimes have to pretend youve read a book you havent. 相信你一定遇到过这样的人,如果你没读过他
ABOARD XIANGYANGHONG 09, June 12 (Xinhua) -- China's manned deep-sea submersible, Jiaolong, will attempt a new dive as part of a bid to go down 7,000 meters into the Mariana Trench on the morning of June 14, according to mission headquarters. If wate
QINGDAO, East China, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese sailor Guo Chuan expected to finish his non-stop solo sailing around the world in one month, according to his supporting team on Monday. Many parts of Guo's yacht were broken last week, like jib, gener
REYKJAVIK, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- China will launch its first international Arctic cooperation and research institute in Shanghai, sources attending a Sino-Iceland workshop told reporters here. The workshop on Arctic studies was held Friday as part of t
PERTH, Australia/KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Australian ships have picked up acoustic signals while searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. The underwater detection represents an important
In the latest move to conduct what it calls Freedom of Navigation exercises, the U.S. Navy sent a guided-missile destroyer, the Curtis Wilbur, to sail within 12 nautical miles of Zhongjian Dao in the Xisha Islands chain on Saturday without authorizat
What happens if you throw your anchor overboard and there isnt enough chain to reach the bottom? Does the anchor haul you down with it? This sounds a little bit like something that would happen in a cartoon. But for sailors its no laughing matter. It
In the 1830s, the British naturalist Edward Forbes surveyed ocean beds throughout the Atlantic and Mediterranean 19世纪30年代,英国博物学家爱德华福布斯勘察了大西佯和地中海各处的海床, and declared that there was no li