豆知识 2011-09-25&10-01 电子设备的故事 (1/3)

The other day, I couldnt find my computer charger. My computer is my lifeline to my work, my friends, my music! So I looked everywhere, even in that drawer where this lives. I know you have one too, a tangle of old chargers, the sad remains of electr

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I am speaking not as a Briton, not as a European, not as a member of a western democracy, but as a human being, a member of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt. The world is full of conflicts: Jews and Arabs; Indians and Pakistanis

CNN 2010-12-19

A lot of protests took place around the city's centre, around parliament, we did have some violence riot at this time, and it started with protesters throwing Molotov cocktails, and the police so responding, things escalated for a while, and the parl

CNN 2011-05-20

Before he went for office in 2003, Schwarzenegger fathered a child with a member of his household staff. According to a statement he gave the paper, (quote) After leaving the governor's office, I told my wife about this event which occurred over a de

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By the 1950s, Hewlett-Packard was a fast-growing company making technical instruments. 到20世纪50年代，惠普已经成为一家制造技术仪器的快速成长的公司。 Fortunately there was a place nearby for entrepreneurs who had outgrown

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Science and technology. 科技。 Photoelectric cells. 光电池。 To dye for. 利用染料进行能量转化。 A new type of cell may bring solar energy indoors. 一种新型电池也许能带来室内太阳能。 THE phrase indoor solar power sou

英语语法：146 “Diffuse” Versus “Defuse”

Some pairs of words are used interchangeably, even indiscriminately. Often the words in question sound similar, and that creates confusion. Other times they are simply misused so frequentlyowing to their similarity of meaning, despite a nuanced diffe

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Gain - This is an increase in signal power, due to a boost from an electronic device. Garbage - These are unwanted characters that appear because of either incorrect settings or noise. Gate - These ar

SSS 2008-09-16

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber . This will just take a minute. Theres a traditional bowl in Korea that locals say makes food safer. And they might be right. The bowl is made of almost 80 percent copper. Copper ion

SSS 2008-04-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. Hi, Steve Mirsky. Here, I'm going over our usual one minute today. By now you've probably heard of Expelled, the new Ben Stein anti-evolution crocumentary. It officially opens today, as I speak that's

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Mike Markkula 迈克马库拉 All of this required money. 这一切都需要用钱。 The tooling of this plastic case was going to cost, like, $100,000, Jobs said. 塑料箱子的加工要花费大概10万美元，乔布斯说， Just to get this wh

经济学人19:光电池 室内太阳能

Science and Technolgy. 科技。 Photoelectric cells. 光电池。 To dye for. 染料光电池。 A new type of cell may bring solar energy indoors. 一种新型电池有望将太阳能引进室内。 THE phrase indoor solar power sounds like an oxym

经济学人228:半导体 芯片技术集资

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英语歌曲:Kathy's song

Kathy's song 歌手：Eva Cassidy 《Kathy's Song》 -- (P. Simon, 1965) Simon and Garfunkel I hear the drizzle of the rain Like a memory it falls Soft and warm continuing Tapping on my roof and walls. And from the shelter of my mind Through the wind

微电子辞典-4

Dangling bonds 悬挂键 Dark current 暗电流 Dead time 空载时间 Debye length 德拜长度 De.broglie 德布洛意 Decderate 减速 Decibel (dB) 分贝 Decode 译码 Deep acceptor level 深受主能

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你应该知道的11件事 A silhouette of a human being stands before you. Perhaps an old friend. Perhaps a neighbor. Perhaps a perfect stranger, like me. Here are 11 things we all need you to keep in mind 1. You never really know how much the peopl

名篇背诵10:独居的报偿

The other day an acquaintance of mine, a gregarious and charming man, told me he had found himself unexpectedly alone in New York for an hour or two between appointments. He went to the Whitney and spent the empty time looking at things in solitary b

CNN 2008-11-02

Hi everyone, I'm Asieh Namda at the CNN. com newsroom in Atlanta. Here is a look at what is happening NOW IN THE NEWS. The battleground states-they are top focus on the campaign trail. On the Republican side, Senator John McCain and Sarah Palin are

Film fest gives Beijing more cultural capital

BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The second Beijing International Film Festival concluded on Sunday, with industry insiders hoping that the festival will create a new global perception of Beijing and the Chinese film industry. As the birthplace of China

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At the equator the convection process is generally stable and the weather predictably fair, but in temperate zones the patterns are far more seasonal, localized, and random, which results in an endless battle between systems of high-pressure air and