英文中也有用动物来形容一个人的比喻,比如: As cunning as a fox 像狐狸一样狡猾 Be careful with that guy, he's as cunning as a fox. 小心那个人,他和狐狸一样狡猾。 As proud as a peacock 像孔雀一样骄傲 Mr

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(一)月

Animal Lovers Celebrate World Animal Day This is Whats Trending Today World Animal Day has been celebrated on October 4 for many years. The World Animal Day website says it was first celebrated in 1925 in Berlin, Germany on a different date. It moved

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The biggest and strongest animal on land is the elephant. The largest and heaviest animal in the sea is the whale. It's also the biggest eater in the world. It eats a ton of food a day. It looks like

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The Strange Case of the Duck-Billed Platypus 光怪陆离鸭嘴兽 by Jeremy Beacock The duck-billed platypus is a creature that just doesn't fit in. 哺乳类?爬虫类?傻傻分不清楚。 When 18th-century scientists first came across Austral

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[ti:UNIT 2 Biggest, Longest, Widest Lesson 11 Don't Fall, Danny!] [0:00.836]UNIT 2 第二单元 [0:01.855]Biggest, Longest, Widest 最大,最长,最宽 [0:04.645]Lesson 11: 第十一课: [0:06.280]Don't Fall, Danny! 丹尼,别倒下! [0:08.

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On they went, until they came to some woods and a red barn. 他们继续走,一直走到了一片树林和一个红色谷仓前。 Then the tired old rabbit said something again. 这时,这只疲惫的老兔子又嘀咕了一句。 What did you s

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Get up, there! said Billy Beaver to the fox. 我们往那儿走。海狸比利对狐狸说。 Away they went, and the rabbit began to walk down the hot, bumpy road. 他们走了,兔子也开始在炙热而颠簸的路上走了起来。 He walked ju

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Once again it was trilobites that provided the clue, 又是三叶虫提供了线索, in particular that seemingly mystifying appearance of different types of trilobite in widely scattered locations around the globe, all at more or less the same tim

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ACT III OK. 好。 If you want to adopt an animal, 如果你想收养动物, first we need to know some references. 首先我们得了解证明人。 References? 证明人? People we know? 我们认识的

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动物如何思考? 关于鸟类大脑,猴子思维以及更多的惊人真相研究者发现,灌木丛里的鸟儿也能把你骗到。猴子会因为自己判断失误而自我惩罚。至少已经有一只鹦鹉能够理解一些与0相近的数

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In some ways, perhaps modern earth moving machinery is a better analogy for the type of power they have. 在一定程度上,用现代土方机械可能更能形容它们所有的力量。 If that's not enough of a deterrent and you're still coming

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They moved with their front legs more oriented inward instead of like this, like we see in bears today, and that would have given them a more efficient gate. 当它们进行移动时,前腿更向内靠,而不是像我们如今看到的熊类这样,

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At the base of the tail, where it connects to the hips, Gastonia had these sharp triangular shaped plates made of bone. 在它尾巴基部,连接髋部的位置,加斯顿龙有这些锋利的三角形的骨质护甲。 In and among themselves, th

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Oversized teeth, sharp claws, speed and gargantuan size led experts to first believe that this was a predator with few adversaries. 超大的牙齿、锋利的爪子、速度还有其巨大的体型,这些让专家们开始时认为这种掠食者没

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Since that time roads and railroads have been made all the way across the country; 从那时起公路和铁路开始修建起来,横贯整个国家; great cities have been built where once was only wilderness;and the wild Indians have been tamed.

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纽约时报专栏作家戴维布鲁克斯在新书中描写认知科学对人性的新发现,以及它对经济、政治和我们自我认知的大范围影响。在这篇幽默机智的演讲中,他解释为何我们不能把人们当成靠自身

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More carbon dioxide emissions lead to more CO2 dissolving in the oceans, which turns the water acidic. Those sour seas slow the growth of corals. And it turns out acidic seawater also makes clownfish and damselfish suicidally bold and reckless, accor

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译者点评:普罗泰格拉说,人类胜过动物,全恃道德。如是,道德就成了衡量人与动物的一把尺子。其实,人与动物之间的关系不仅仅能反映人的道德观,也反映动物的道德观。人狗之间与人

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[ti:UNIT 2 Plant a Plant! Lesson 16: Unit Review] [0:00.193]UNIT 2 [0:01.853]Plant a Plant! [0:03.512]Lesson 16: [0:05.287]Unit Review [0:06.831]Ⅰ. Building Your Vocabulary [0:10.111]A. Fill in each blank with the proper word from the list. Use the

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scratch 抓,挠 cuddle 拥抱 feline 猫科动物 scoop 铲子 shovel 铲子 domesticated animals 家养动物 orange tabby 橙色斑猫 M: Hot as hades these days. right? 快热爆炸了,对吧? Z: It's way too hot outside now. 现在室外太热

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