[00:01.61]On His Seventieth Birthday [00:05.11]Of late years the public have been trying to tackle me [00:09.85]in every way they possibly can, [00:12.25]and failing to make anything of it they have turned to treating me as a great man. [00:17.47] Th

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 英语专业晨读美文

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.Albert Einstein 只有那些努力完成荒谬的事才有可能实现不可能。--爱因斯坦 图片1

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Liberty is order. Liberty is strength. Look around the world, and admire, as you must, the instructive spectacle. You will see that liberty not only is power and order, but that it is power and order predominant① and invincible② that it derides a

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(248) / 评论(0) 分类 傲慢与偏见.Pride.and.Prejudice

It was a world independent of sunlight, oxygen, or anything else normally associated with life. 那个世界独立于阳光、氧气和其他通常与生命有关的任何东西。 This was a living system based not on photosynthesis but on chemosynt

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H: I swear I will never shop at a street market in China. It's a terrible place full of excellent profiteers! You have to keep an eye whenever it comes to paying for something. J: cool down, Harry! What are you really mad about? Did you get ripped of

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Sheldon: Thisinsistence on hand-holding is preposterous. [prɪˈpɒstərəs]adj.荒谬可笑的;不合理的 Amy: Well, i likeit. S: Yeah, of courseyou do. You're a girl. You like all kinds of hippy-dippy(愚蠢的) things. A: Just watch themovie.

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But even harder than the technological troubles are the political ones as preposterous as it might sound to many of us 但在技术难题之外 更复杂的是政治难题也许看起来有点荒谬 there are great many people claim that climate chan

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This put me ahead of First Lady Michelle Obama and Indian politician Sonia Gandhi. Absurd. 而且,我居然排在米歇尔奥巴马和索尼娅甘地的前面,这太荒谬了。 My own mother called to say, Well, dear, I do think you are very pow

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行为经济学家 Dan Ariely 研究那些影响我们道德准则的元素:有时候我们允许自己偷窃及欺骗的原因。在我们难以捉摸的影响下,我们的荒谬竟是可预知的。

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:罪与罚

Did you see The Simpsons episode where Homer makes a toast to alcohol?: To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of lifes problems. There are a few reasons why we might find this funny. First theres the inherently ridiculous contradictionthe re

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十)月

The Duke, by this time perfectly awake, was staggered at the impossibility of receiving intelligence from Madrid in so short a space of time; 公爵这时已经完全醒了,担心不可能这么短时间内便得到来自马德里的情报, and p

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Mendeleyev dutifully completed his studies and eventually landed a position at the local university. There he was a competent but not terribly outstanding chemist, known more for his wild hair and beard, which he had trimmed just once a year, than fo

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As a leading member of the Acadmie Royale des Sciences, he was also required to take an informed and active interest in whatever was topicalhypnotism, prison reform, the respiration of insects, the water supply of Paris. It was in such a capacity in

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简介:毫无疑问,这绝不是一部喜剧片。在它貌似离经叛道的荒谬的风格下,探讨的是一部年轻人对于生活的迷惘和失望,影片的故事情节很荒谬,维尼卡爱上了一个很酷的男青年,但是在跟

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 看电影学英语

简介:十七世纪的路易十四时代,一名乡下的地方官麦勒维潘格果侯爵,发现当地居民因洪水问题而普遍感染一种罕见的脚气病,不得不进宫向皇上陈述一套水利改革计划,但到了宫廷却始终

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1)for sb. 常用于表示事物的特征特点,表示客观形式的形容词,如easy, hard, difficult, interesting, impossible等: It's very hard for him to study two languages. 对他来说学

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(131) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

A clothing store in Beijing has provoked outrage after posting a sign in the window banning Chinese customers. 北京的一家衣服店在窗口挂出拒绝中国顾客的牌子后激起了民愤。 The sign, which was reportedly put up a week ago, t

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Idiom: Roll up your sleeves ( ready to do something ) Hit the book: Muddle Derivative Iconography Predominant Badge Depredate Anzac Day Dilute Millennium 5. A flag should represent great design The Government is committed to best practice design th

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味青春英语

有人会觉得这样记单词太慢,但学习英语的目的是为了交流,这里面没有生僻的单词,却表达了很精彩的思想,为什么不学这样学单词呢?你可能一天能认识很多单词,但未必会用,交流的能

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模仿文本: Nor does laughter need much annotation. The greatest joy in life is to discover that the same absurdities of life seem absurd to you both, creating that lovely moment of breakage when the masquerade of courtship you have been enacting

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