双语有声阅读：讽刺文学

The Satiric Literature Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness,its originality of perspective.Satire rarely offers original ideas.Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new p

双语有声阅读：海水盐度

The Salinity of Ocean Waters If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only slightly from place to place. Nevertheless, some of these small changes are important. There are three basic processes that cause a change in oceanic s

双语有声阅读：露天世界的夜晚

Night in the Open World Night is a dead and monotonous period under a roof(1); but in the open world(2) it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal

双语有声阅读：科学实验的重要性

The Importance of Scientific Experiments The rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to date as far back as the time of Roger Bacon(1), the wonderful monk and philosopher of Oxford(2), who lived between the years 1214 and 1292. He was probab

双语有声阅读：受命统率全军

Accepting the Command ofthe- Army You may believe me, when I assure you in the most solemn manner that, so far from(2) seeking this employment, I have used every effort in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the

双语有声阅读：小客栈的乐趣

Happy Life at a Tavern We dined at an excellent inn at Chapelhouse(2), where Dr. Johnson expatiated on the felicity of England in its taverns and inns, and triumphed over(3) the French for not having, in any perfection, the tavern life. There is no p

双语有声阅读：爱国志士

Who Loves His Country Who loves his country will not rest Content with(2) vow and pledge alone, But flies her banner in his breast And counts her destiny his own(3) -- Not only when the bugle plays Stands forth to give his life for her, But on the fi

双语有声阅读：体育的起源

The Origin of Sports When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for, as we all have observed, the beasts play. Dogs and cats wrestle and play ball games.Fishes and birds dance

双语有声阅读：冰箱的由来

冰箱的由来 直到 19 世纪中期，冰箱这个名词才进入了美国语言，但冰仅仅只是开始影响美国普通市民的饮食。 冰的买卖随着城市的发展而发展。 冰被用在旅馆、酒馆、医院以及被一些有眼光

双语有声阅读：绿色食品

The Organic Foods Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods -- a term whose meaning varies greatly -

双语有声阅读：诺贝尔委员会

The Nobel Academy For the last 82 years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal. But today the Academy is coming un

双语有声阅读：显微技术

The Microscopic Technique Each advance in microscopic technique has provided scientists with new perspectives on the function of living organisms and the nature of matter itself. The invention of the visible light microscope late in the sixteenth cen

双语有声阅读：音乐的语言

The Language of Music A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the compo

双语有声阅读：美国革命的历史意义

The Historical Significance of American Revolution The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events covering a number of years, a multiplicity of persons,

双语有声阅读：美国高等教育的革命

The Revolution in American Higher Education To produce the upheaval in the United States that changed and modernized the domain of higher education from the mid 1860's to the mid 1880's, three primary causes interacted. The emergence of a half dozen

双语有声阅读：北美殖民时期的妇女

Women in Colonial North America The status of women in colonial North America has been well studied and described and can be briefly summarized. Throughout the colonial period there was a marked shortage of women, which varied with the regions and wa

双语有声阅读：戏剧的起源

The Beginning of Drama There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The one most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as follows. In the beginning,

双语有声阅读：美国内战

The American Civil War The military aspect of the United States Civil War has always attracted the most attention from scholars. The roar of gunfire, the massed movements of uniformed men, the shrill o f bugles, and the drama of hand to hand combat h

双语有声阅读：阿拉斯加输油管

The Alaska Pipeline The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and northernmost state in the United States,ending at a remote ice free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it be

双语有声阅读：电视

Television Television -- the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies,marked by rapid change and growth --is moving into a new era,an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world.