Learn English for the 2008 Olympics New City Versus the Old Foreigner: Beijing is developing so fast that in effect, it is a completely new city. Impressive as your new skyscrapers are, they are chang

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(226) / 评论(0) 分类 英语沙龙2004全年合辑上

When they unearthed the floor of the buildings within which the objects had been found, they discovered another surprise. We found a special set of stones, consisting of a tethering stone up front here then an opening in the ground surrounded by lim

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 遗失的法老城市

Moving any single piece would have taken a workforce of hundreds.Using sleds to transport the pieces through the city. Monuments,like statues and obelisks,would have been taken down and transported whole. Temples and other bulidings, a single piece

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The modern day town of Qantir is a jumbled collection of ramshackle buildings typical of a delta town today. Judging by its central position on the scan. It is almost certainly sitting slap-bang on the top of Ramesses II s palace. According to accou

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The most wonderful part of all this huge area is a building in the middle of our scan, one huge structure covering more than 41,000 square meters, the center of which is a building which shows a sequence of rooms. All of them with symmetrically arra

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我们如何解决郊区面临的种种问题?城市学家杰夫斯佩克告诉我们如何从对被他称作排放废气,浪费时间,威胁生命的假肢工具 - 汽车的依赖中解放出来,使我们的城市变得适宜步行和适宜更

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:环境 重造计划

It's like some vision of hell, an environmental apocalypse happening right now. This is the place where the coal fires burn throughout the night, and where there is still darkness at noon. This is the place with the worst pollution, collects the wors

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2007年

The clue to what the ancient Egyptians did to Piramess 3000 years ago lies hidden in the middle of an unassuming field in modern day Qantir. Here are the feet of one of the many colossal statues that Rammesses the great built at Piramess. The rest o

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(181) / 评论(0) 分类 遗失的法老城市

在一个伦敦那么大的城市里,每天都要消耗掉三千万吨粮食。但是,这些食物都从何而来?建筑师Carolyn Steel 探讨每天喂养一个城市的神话,介绍古代的食物运输如何影响城市的形成和发展。

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:吃吧

Singapore retains its title as the world's most expensive city for a fourth consecutive year, according to the latest cost-of-living survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit. 根据经济学人智库发布的最新生活成本调查,新加坡连续

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(40) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Message on World Cities Day 世界城市日致辞 31 October 2015 2015年10月31日 The theme of this years observance of World Cities Day Designed to Live Together highlights the key role of urban design in building sustainable, socially integrated

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口译

These laws were so strict that people still speak of Draconian severity. 这些法律十分严厉以致人们今天还在谈论德拉古的严厉。 But the people of Athens, who had roamed the seas in their ships, and had heard and seen so many diff

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 世界小史

centre of population 城市 city 城 capital 首都 metropolis 大都市 centre 市中心(美作:center) shopping centre 商业区 municipality 市政当局 municipal 市的,市政的 district 区

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蜜蜂正很离奇的迅速自郊区消失,并深深影响农业发展。然而,蜜蜂与都市环境却生活得很好,而城市也需要他们的帮忙。 Noah Wilson-Rich 在此说服观众都市养蜂对于城市的可持续发展,以及拯

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:环境 重造计划

We care about staying safe during our travels, especially when we take our epic adventures solo. There's no reason for travel disasters when you can prevent them. 外出旅行的时候,我们会非常关注安全问题,特别是当我们独自外出

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(271) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Shanghai ranked 16th in the 20th Global Financial Centers Index released last Monday, becoming the highest ranked Chinese mainland city and showing its rising competitiveness in the global financial sector. 在上周一发布的第20期全球金融中心

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

No, the progress of the last six hundred years would not have been possible without the existence of cities. 不过,如果不是因为城市的存在,过去六百年来的进步将是完全不可能的。 I shall, therefore, have to make this cha

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

We like being around people. 我们喜欢待在人群之中。 We are social animals. 我们是群居动物。 Instead, countries where urbanization 然而,那些城镇化已经达到峰值的国家 has already peaked seem to be the very countries 似

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

Three of China's big cities -- Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen -- have topped a ranking of the country's richest cities, according to a list released by China Business News, an economic news portal. 据经济新闻门户网站《第一财经日报》发

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

This map shows the top cities in the world. 这张地图展示了世界上(生活费用指数较高)的城市。 The color of the markers corresponds with the Cost of Living in the city. Red markers show more expensive cities, green ones show che

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间