C- Christopher Tietjens S- Sylvia Satterthwaite B- Bridget S: And is that the end of the world? C: No. The world ended long ago, in the 18th Century. S: Do you know what he's doing? He's making corrections in the Encyclopedia Britannica! If I'd kille

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文本: Finally, a fish breaks for cover. It's what the sea lions have been waiting for. Crevices in the reef might seem to offer shelter. But that's no problem for the sea lions, who simply scare them out with bubbles. With the sea lions distracte

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文本: S- Sylvia Satterthwaite P- Potty S: He's someone called Thurston,I met him somewhere. He won't gossip. P: I don't care if he does. S: Well, thank you very much. P: What does it matter? Now or later. We're notgoing to hide for ever. S: Well,

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To film this behaviour, the team sailed 800 miles to one of the remotest islands in the Hawaiian chain - French Frigate Shoals. The timing was critical. For just two weeks a year, a dozen tiger sharks gather round this tiny island ready for the albat

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文本: Will probably not. Sooner or later they would have noticed that the top of the head is sliced off, scooped out, like a boiled egg of breakfast, to hold sacrificial offerings. And then they would have remembered stories of Rome told about th

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文本: A century later, Claudius, the club-foot stammerer, on the face of it, the most unlikely conqueror of all, was determined to get it right. If it was going to be done at all, Claudius reckoned, it had to be done in such massive force that th

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The kind of army which could barely be conceived of, much less encountered in Iron Age Britain. Claudius did succeed where Julius Caesar had failed, through a brilliant strategy of carrot and stick. Yes, he would seize the largely undefended oppidan

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文本: There are 150 tonnes of fish in this one haul. It used to take a fishing vessel one whole year to catch this many fish. These are mostly yellow fin tuna, plus some skip jack. As they're slower breeders than skip jack, many yellow fin are ca

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文本: The fish are scooped up from the water, a tonne or two at a time. Every last fish from this school of 7,000 yellow fin and skip jack tuna is plucked from the water. With fishing techniques now so efficient, and with ever more vessels plying

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The person we usually think of as embodying British national resistance to Rome, Queen Boudicca of the East Anglian tribe of the Iceni, actually came from a family of happy, even eager collaborators. It only took a policy of incredible stupidity, arr

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But years later, one king had different ideas for the park. James I didn't cut the finest of figures, yet he was fond of the finest of clothes, especially the best silk. Always short of cash, James realised that silk, a great luxury of the day, might

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文本: S- Sylvia Satterthwaite M- Sylvia's mother S: Think of all the ruin that child has meant for me. And Christopher's perfectly soppy about it. M: You don't deserve your husband, anyway. I can't imagine why he sent that telegram. Resume yoke,

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原文: 原文欣赏: -Aboutyour scheme for restoring the estate cottages... You don't mind my interfering? -My dear fellow, I brought you here to interfere. In fact, why don't you stayfor dinner and we'll talk about it? We'll send down to Molesl

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文本: M: How did you know she was dead? S: She had an item in her possession, one she said her life depended on. She chose to give it up. M: Where is this item now? S: Look at them. They all care so much. Do you ever wonder if theres something wr

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文本: After our cameraman left the Esperanza, Greenpeace continued their journey, and captured these images of the world's biggest purse seiner, with a capacity almost four times larger than the New Guinea vessel. It's a Spanish ship fishing for

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文本: Moray: Look, my dear, allI'm asking is that a draper be given the opportunity to defend himself. Katherine: Jocelin is married.She is the gentlest, most honorable woman I know. Dudley: Miss Glendenning, may I speak? I came here tonightbecau

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文本: The Duke was blessed with a rich wife. So he leased this land from the crown, and on it, built a lavish mansion equal to his ambitions. Although not a stone of it is visible today. The Duke might have known how to make a big impression, but

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文本: These fishermen may not catch as many fish as a purse seiner, but then, that's the point. Whether any fishing is sustainable depends on how many fish are caught, how many are left to breed and how many other species are caught by accident.

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文本: 模仿文本: This is the official coronation portrait of George III, painted around the time he moved into Buckingham House. And as was the custom, he's in full royal regalia. Exquisite gold silks and sumptuous ermine robes. But look clo

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文本: Sure enough, when the two forces met, Boudicca's swollen and unwieldy army was no match for the legions. Her great insurrection ended in a gory chaotic slaughter. 译文: 可想而知,两军短兵相接布迪卡的虾兵蟹将怎敌罗马

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