音标:[ˈtɔ:tɪsiz] ;
n. 乌龟( tortoise的复数形式 ); 行动迟缓的人(或物)
n. usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica

VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean and the unusual creatures that live there. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Bartolome Island T

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(307) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十二)月

One of the most iconic animals of the Galapagos Islands is the Giant Tortoise. Charles Darwin wrote of this tortoise in his famed report , Origin of Species, published 150 years ago this month. The differences between the tortoises from island to isl

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[00:02.75]Unit 19 Communication Language Awareness 4 [00:08.70]Lonesome Male of the Galapagos [00:11.60]Jo Tuckman on the Galapagos Islands [00:14.83]Celebrity is not usually a characteristic [00:17.49]associated with middle-aged giant tortoises [00:

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VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with Explorations in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean and the unusual creatures that live there. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: A Galapagos Giant

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary turtle: a marine-dwelling (fresh or saltwater) hard-shelled reptile; used in some regions as a generic word for turtles, terrapins, and tortoises tortoise: a land-dwelling reptile with a dome-shaped shell streamlined: feature

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They can grow more than two metres long and weigh as much as three men. But the giant tortoises of ice age North America were even larger. Florida does have tortoises today, but on a much smaller scale. This is the gopher tortoise. Tortoises are cold

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EXPLORATIONS - Unusual creatures live on the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean By Caty Weaver Broadcast: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Emb

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JUDY WOODRUFF:Now the challenges of combating climate change. This week, the European Union announced it was loosening its strict environmental regulations in the face of economic setbacks. In the U.S., renewable sources of energy like wind and solar

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What age would you like to live to? Many people often live to a ripe old age, but 'Lonesome George', a giant tortoise, was estimated to have been over 100 years old. This week his keeper of 40 years, Fausto Llerena, sadly found him dead in his enclos

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Ana: Hey, Michael. I heard your mom is a zoologist. What is it exactly? Mike: A zoologist. Well, that's true. She is a zoologist. So a zoologist is someone who studies animals. Ana: Oh, interesting. So does she study all animals or does she focus on

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How Do People Treat Animals? 人们是怎样对待动物的? Many people now keep animals as pets. 如今,许多人把动物当作宠物来养。 Some people have cats and dogs in their houses. 一些人在家里养猫养狗。 Other people like fi

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学英语单词
A and P
actuarial value
AELT
anna-maria
arom
bankiva
bedirty
beet carrion beetle
bonus in kind
Brazatortas
cage-riding clearance
coastguardsmen
Cochinos, B.de
communitarian socialism
condenser spun
container semi-trailer
coussin
crazy like a fox
culag
cybernationalists
descemetoceles
devalier
dilator tubae
diphthongise
dissatisfactory
domain name server
drawback lock
drip moulding
dry matter production
enroute high altitude chart (erhac)
epica
evvy
family pongidaes
food-insecurity
four-corners
fused basalt
gas impregnated cable
Glasenberg
harry houdinis
high speed vertical external broacher
human embryo
large acreage
Last Mountain
lattice mechanics
lazulite
lead-splash condenser
likelihood analysis
machine hammer
machine independent language
macroeconomic consumption function
meido
methyl green-pyronin method
microinstruction storage
Middle Pt.
military standard transportation and movement procedures
mixed or semi serialized layout
mulberg
multistage single element ejector
not have got all one's buttons on
nov. gen.
Novolin
obstetric(al) hemorrhage
parallel merge algorithm
pas de march?
peniculids
pericyst
Petroleum County
PHCC
photokinas
photophosphorylations
pneumatic cyst (pneumatocyst)(or air bladder)
pocket pistols
post-Gregg
Puddle slut
puts a high value on
Qaboun
rank invariant
reading method
Rh hemolytic disease
rose-breasted grosbeak
Rydberg's penstemon
safety dermatome
sauv
shanika
shift capacity
short-range indirect fire
slag ... off
sloganed
snow parks
source/drain
spacer strip
sphaerophone
state language compilation
stringy floopy
sun-bittern
Tapiscia yunnanensis
time-serveds
trehalases
vertical market
very low
water-proof material
wer