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Today, New Zealanders celebrated Waitangi Day in many places but the main events were held at the Treaty grounds in Waitangi. This is in Northland, about 3 hours drive north of Auckland. The day before, on Tuesday 5th February, leaders held a meeting

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Lesson 8 A LUMP OF PUTTY 第八课 一块腻子（油灰） Did you ever see a man put in a pane of glass? He first cuts away the hard stuff which holds the old glass in its place. This hard stuff is called putty. Then with some fresh putty he fixes

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The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at th

美丽新世界Brave New World 第1章(1)

Chapter One 第一章 A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. 一幢灰白色的大楼，矮矮的，只有三十四层。 Over the main entrance the words, central london hatchery and conditioning centre, and, in a shield, the World State

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Sterling Memorial Library 斯特林纪念图书馆 Yale University has a huge library system of 25 libraries, including Sterling Memorial Library, Law Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and so on and so forth. 耶鲁大学拥有一个庞

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Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. 让伟大的神灵，在我们头顶掀起这场可怕的骚动。现在，让他们找到他们的敌人吧。 Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee

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Lesson 73 A Pane Of Glass 第73课 玻璃窗 If you had lived in Britain a thousand years ago, you might have seen panes of glass in the churches, but you would have found very few glass windows in the houses of the people. The windows in those days

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Chapter 11. The Wonderful City of Oz 第11章 神奇的翡翠城 Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City. 多萝茜一行人虽带着绿墨镜，但当他们

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Today is Waitangi Day, a day when we remember the Treaty that was signed on Feb 6th 1840, between the Queen of England and the Maori chiefs of New Zealand. In the Treaty, Queen Victoria agreed to protect the Maori and give them the same rights as Bri

新西兰英语 244 Waitangi Day

Today is Waitangi Day. It is 170 years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. This was a treaty between Queen Victoria of England and Maori chiefs in New Zealand. The Queen promised to give Maori all the rights of British citizens and to protec

新西兰英语 54 Treaty of Waitangi Claims

Midnight tonight is the deadline for all Treaty of Waitangi claims. Last year, there were 97 claims but more than 1,000 claims are likely by midnight tonight. This is the last time that anyone can make an historic claim although it will take many yea

中国云台山景区一玻璃栈道开裂 官方称无危险

The operators of a glass-bottomed walkway clinging to a cliff 3,500 feet above sea level in central China want to reassure visitors that they are quite safe.Despite the cracks in the glass. 建造于中国中部海拔3500英尺的悬崖上的一条玻璃

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ISLAMABAD, April 26 (Xinhua) -- At least 11 people including a child were killed and 40 others injured on Friday night in a bomb blast that targeted a political meeting in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, local media and police said. Accordi

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A glass pane at Tower Bridge's new transparent walkway 140ft above the River Thames, has smashed after a visitor dropped a bottle of beer. 英国泰晤士河上的高约140英尺（约43米）的伦敦塔桥，2周之前开放了新景点--玻璃人行

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If you live in Wellington, go to Frank Kitts Park on the waterfront to see the Kiwi bach called First Light. It will be there from today until May 24th. Four Victoria University architecture students designed this small house like a Kiwi bach for a c

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Chapter 5 (an excerpt) It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the life

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 2 Fifteen hundred persons had been travelling by train for severa

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In July 2011, a decade after the first ones opened, there were 326 Apple stores. 2011年，第一批苹果零售店开业10年之后，全世界已经有317家苹果零售店。 The biggest was in London's Covent Garden, the tallest in Tokyo's Ginza.