英语听力:自然百科

The cool waters of Wakulla Springs makes it a popular place to beat Florida's heat. Tourists lounge on the May beach, while the locals prefer the opposite bank. Despite the cold-blooded company, people have visited these historic springs for years. B

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Transcript by myconsent One thousand years before Columbus, there were pyramid builders, warriors -- the architects of an empire in South America. The Tiwanaku(蒂瓦纳科人) lived in a valley of Lake Titicaca(的的喀喀湖) for 1,500 hundred

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The ancient city of Machu Picchu attracts visitors from all over the world. The most famous archaeological site in Peru, this Inca ruin floats among the clouds, 2,000 feet above the Urubamba River that runs below, and 7,700 feet above sea level. Hist

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The secret of the diamond lies in the carbon bond. Carbon is one of the most plentiful substances known to science. We find carbon in plants, animals and our bodies. Carbon everywhere. And yet diamonds are some of the rarest, most beautiful of all su

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Climate change is hitting hard in this village in Senegal on Africa's west coast. Houses along this stretch of beach have been abandoned and left to the waters. The advance of the water is damaging many houses around and the cabanas. At one time ther

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They are extremely awkward on land, and not exactly graceful in the water. But there's something endearing about these egg-laying mammals. Platypuses can only be found in the rivers, streams and lakes along the east coast of Australia. But they range

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Loch Ness(尼斯湖), a beautiful but forbidding(可怕的)lake in the Scottish Highlands. The first recorded sighting of a Loch Ness monster goes all the way back to the 6th century when an Irish monk was said to have chastised(责骂) the v

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In Southeast Asia, an abandoned city sprawls magnificently across the heart of Cambodia. Its hundreds of monuments contain more stone than the Egyptian pyramids, and cover more ground than modern Paris. This is Angkor, the capital of an Empire that o

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Moreton Bay, on the eastern coast of Australia, is always a rich and diverse ecosystem. Beds of sea grass stretch over miles, providing the foundation for fish, marine mammals and some truly ancient mariners(海员). Protected areas, like Moreton

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The Ark of the Covenant. Down through the ages, it has inspired devotion, terror and obsession. It has long been believed that this gold-encrusted chest was built to hold the Ten Commandments. The Israelites carried the Ark into virtually every battl

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When Amna Ment Mohamed opens a window in her home, a fountain of sand tumbles to the floor. I am always afraid as our house can fall on our heads. The sand comes in from all sides and the windows. To reach her front door, she must climb over the sand

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Its nestled in the tropical landscape of north Queensland, the Tolga Bat Hospital. Here volunteers hand-raise up to 500 baby spectacled flying foxes each year. These young bats have lost their mothers to a disease caused by ticks. The bat hospital st

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A recently discovered species of frogfish(襞鱼科) has been dubbed(授予称号) the psychedelic(引起幻觉的) fish because of the swirl of beige(米黄色的)and peach(桃红色的) zebra stripes that run from its blue eyes to its tail. Histiop

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Construction of a railway tunnel under the Istanbul or Bosporus Strait in Turkey has uncovered ancient ruins older than historians believed existed. The Marmaray Project aims to upgrade about 47 miles of commuter rail that includes connecting either

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15 million years ago, New Zealand was a different place. The country was blanketed by dense rainforests and partially submerged under the ocean. Analysis of sedimentary(沉淀性的) rocks has shown that sea temperatures in this part of the world ros

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The Florida Everglades, each winter, hordes(群) of manatees congregate in the warm waters here to survive the cooler weather. But they are not alone. Manatees share these waterways with boaters, and that has put them in a harm's way(危险的境

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Israeli archeologists have discovered a rare, well-preserved, 1800-year-old figurine in Jerusalem. Dating from the time of the Roman Empire, the two-inch marble bust depicts the head of a man with a short curly beard .Archeologists believe it was use

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If you are a Magellanic penguin, this ten-mile stretch of Argentine beach is where the action is--a place to scout about a new partner(物色新伴侣), conduct a courtship and settle down to raise the youngsters. National Geographic Grantee Dee Berg

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If George Washington really had chopped down a cherry tree, he would have done it here. And if he ever threw a stone across the Rappahannock River, then this is the spot. Both childhood stories have found their way into the legend of George Washingto

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Rescuers in Australia worked around the clock Friday to try and save stranded sperm whales washed up on a sandbar off an Australian island. Wildlife officials say the whales beached on Thursday on the bank about 160 yards off Perkins Island in northw

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学英语单词
a play upon words
abaisances
accinged
air prcheater
allowance for containers consigned
aluminum salicylate
an object of pity
anethole
anodcsyn
anticounter mining device
approbate and reprobate
approximation to distribution
areologic
assembled micromodule
automatic sand plant
b-v-t
backstep welding
bayes factor
British preference tariff system
brownbenttalon
caleigh
Calopogon tuberosum
chirila
circuit drill
conjoined twins
crime-fighting
Czapek bouillon
declarative alvey compiler target language
delivery overside
Dirocide
Ebenales
economizer
elders and betters
Examilia
fitzjames
giovan
Government Accounting Office
gymnosiphon aphyllus
hepatic calcification
homeowner's insurance
hypocalcemic
hypoponera biroi
i promise you
i-het
Ibadists
indiv.
intermolecularly
intracystic papilloma of breast
ion milling
leader trailer
let him down
liquid phantom
living macromolecule
lower leg-foot index
luminous edge
misrejoin
Morozzo
new mortgagee
not think much of
ocean data station buoy
Ogyen
outside admission valve
over-compounded
over-gassed juice
over-low
Peclet number
phone to
photophor
pitch-angle
place mats
plating press
plinthic
Porto da Fôlha
pot out
primary monosomic
product stream
pyrrie
pyrus bretschneider rehd.
Pyrus calleryana
ramus dexter arteriae hepaticae propriae
real-time audio
rheumatic heart diseases
round wire feeler gage
seizin in fact
Singiloncheon
slope water
sound tracks
Subtriporopollenites
tachometricsurvey
Tectopontine
Telfordized
tex point
tighten the economy
touch phones
traprocks
trinitro-fluorenone
Vaganski Vrh
Venae circumflexae mediales femorales
view halloa
visiedo
war monger
wing surface radiator