【英语时差8,16】史学家的莎士比亚

OK. Well, compared with China, Shakespeares England was a very very small place Li, a very small place. You know if Ming Dynasty China maybe had one hundred million people, England had three million people. So we are talking about a very small place

【英语时差8,16】狼到中年

Middle Aged Wolves Picture an elk walking through the forest, looking for some berries to nibble. Then, suddenly, a pack of wolves leaps from the bushes, surrounding the startled animal. The wolves close in. The elk looks for an escape route, but the

【英语时差8,16】打嗝……打嗝……为什么我们会打嗝？

Weve all experienced them at one time or another, often right after a big meal. A normal bout of hiccups usually lasts only a few minutes and may contain up to seventy individual hics. Unlike coughing or sneezing which can help clear your airways, hi

【英语时差8,16】大诗人莎士比亚

Liu Lei: This is my all-time favourite. William: Ive got a question for you, Liulei. Is there anything you can say in general, when youre talking about comparing English poems, like this sonnet, and Chinese poems from that same era, that same time, 1

【英语时差8,16】国家海事博物馆

The National Maritime Museum Jean: It sounds like waves on the ocean. Are we on a ship? Lily: No, no, we are here in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.You know, its the leading maritime museum in the UK and the biggest of its kind in the worl

【英语时差8,16】伦敦绿色交通工具

Green Transport in London Paul: Ready for our green city ride Yang Li? Yang Li: Im really excited! A green city ride on a pedi cab! Of course, you know that London is one of the great metropolitan cities of the world, but how green is its transport i

【英语时差8,16】卡蒂萨克号失火

The Cutty Sark Burns John: Greenwich is a well-known tourist spot in London. Its also the home of a historically important ship the Cutty Sark. Now, a terrible fire has destroyed the Cutty Sark.The Cutty Sark has been a major tourist attraction since

【英语时差8,16】魏格纳的版块运动学说

The story of plate tectonics begins with the German scientist Alfred Wegener in the early part of the twentieth century. He first proposed that the continents had moved and were still moving. He pointed out a line of mountains that appears from east

【英语时差8,16】葡萄酒和啤酒：不同酒种，同样基本过程-上

You start with a liquid containing some kind of sugar, add yeast, and wait. The yeast digests the sugar, giving off alcohol in the process. The sugar in beer comes mostly from a grain called barley. With wine, the sugar usually comes from grapes. Eit

【英语时差8,16】为什么无法阻止朋友做出糟糕的决定

Studies have shown that unsound thinking can sort of pass from one person to the next. Say I bought a house with the intent of fixing it up and then selling it. Its one of those deals where you keep sinking money into it, doing repair after repair, r

【英语时差8,16】猴妈妈的爱

Monkey Mother Love Picture a mother cradling her newborn infant. She looks intently into the babys eyes, making kissing noises. Its a typical scene, right? Except that the mother and baby arent human. Theyre rhesus macaque monkeys. Until recently, sc

【英语时差8,16】光速与星际高速公路-下

Likewise, light travels at its maximum speed through a vacuum-the interstellar highway-but it slows down when it enters air, water, or some other medium. Through air, light moves a hint slower: forty miles-per-second less than its maximum speed. Thro

【英语时差8,16】3D爱丽丝梦游仙境-下

Although the film is a 21st Century, technology-laden, visual feast, it is based on the works of the 19th Century mathematician Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll was actually the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Ch

【英语时差8,16】光速与星际高速公路-上

If youre driving on an interstate highway, the only thing keeping you from going faster than the speed limit is your sense of civic duty, or perhaps that police car up ahead. Theres one speed limit, however, that most scientists agree nothing will ev

【英语时差8,16】罕见的独角鲸-上

Narwhals arent fish, theyre mammals--a rare type of whale. They have a famous spiraled tusk. The tusk, which is commonly misconceived for a horn, is actually an elongated tooth. Only male narwhals grow tusks, which can be over six to almost ten feet

【英语时差8,16】世上最贵的火腿-下

Each pig has been fed on a special diet of acorns and roots to give the ham its distinctive flavour, and given a pasture of ten hectares each to live in. After, what is by pig standards, an idyllic life of roaming oak groves and feeding naturally, th

【英语时差8,16】为什么特氟隆很滑

Why Teflon Is Slippery Teflon is the trademark name for PTFE, a type of plastic. If you own any non stick cookware, then you probably use PTFE on a daily basis. You might not realize, as you fry your morning eggs, that PTFE is one of the most slipper

【英语时差8,16】震动更易捕蠕虫

You've never heard of worm grunting? Well,it's a practice of driving a wooden stake into the ground and vibrating it with a flat piece of iron. The vibrations run through the soil and cause nearby earthworms to burrow up to the surface, where they ca

【英语时差8,16】葡萄酒和啤酒：不同酒种，同样基本过程-下

How much alcohol the yeast can tolerate depends partly on the type of yeast. And thats another reason wine is stronger than beer: beer-yeast, with a lower tolerance for alcohol, is killed by the time the alcohol reaches about nine percent. Wine-yeast

【英语时差8,16】练习你的音阶：乐器改善脑功能-下

Other studies have backed this up. A Harward study found a relationship between early childhood music lessons and enhanced verbal skills and reasoning. The study also found that learning an instrument can help dyslexic children overcome their reading