英国学生通过卖身和赌博来偿还高利息贷款

英国学生通过卖身和赌博来偿还高利息贷款 University students in the U.K. are having such a hard time making ends meet that they are resorting to desperate measures. Many have turned to gambling, taking out high-interest loans and eve

英国学生科学读本 第70期:蒸发作用(1)

Lesson 70 Evaporation 第70课 蒸发作用 Let us fill a small kettle with water, and place it on the fire. The water will soon begin to boil. After an hour or so we shall find the kettle quite empty, although no one has touched it since it was plac

英国学生科学读本 第70期:蒸发作用(2)

The finger which is wet with alcohol will be dry before you can count ten, while the finger which is wet with water may take a minute or more to dry. 在你数到十之前, 那根沾有酒精的手指就会变得干燥, 而另外一根沾有水的手指

英国学生科学读本 第71期:樱桃树及其果实(1)

Lesson 71 The Cherry-tree And Its Fruit 第71课 樱桃树及其果实 The cherry-tree is a small tree which grows to a height of about twenty feet. Its stem is covered with a smooth brown bark, and its green leaves have saw-like edges, somewhat like

英国学生科学读本 第71期:樱桃树及其果实(2)

In fact, all these four plants belong to the same class. 实际上, 这四种植物同属一个种类。 If we visit the orchard again in June, we shall find that all the white flowers have fallen off the cherry-trees, and that the seed-vessel of eac

英国学生科学读本 第72期:聪明的蜘蛛(1)

Lesson 72 The Clever Spider 第72课 聪明的蜘蛛 You may have seen men setting nets in the sea, or in a river, to catch fish. Let me tell you about the little animals that are always setting nets in your house and in your garden in much the same

英国学生科学读本 第72期:聪明的蜘蛛(2)

Try to find a spider's web on a bush or on the grass in your garden, and look very closely at it. The spider makes the outside lines of the web first. Then it forms the lines which extend like the spokes of a wheel from the centre of the net to the e

英国学生科学读本 第67期:羊毛漫谈(1)

Lesson 67 A Talk About Wool 第67课 羊毛漫谈 When we take a country walk in the spring-time, we see the sheep, with its thick, warm covering of wool. But when we see it in summer, its wool is very short. In June the farmer's men wash the sheep,

英国学生科学读本 第68期:风信子(1)

Lesson 68 The Hyacinth 第68课 风信子 The wild hyacinth is one of the most beautiful of the flowers of spring-time, and it is also one of the most abundant . In April, May, and June, we may find its flowers in many parts of the woods in such numb

英国学生科学读本 第68期:风信子(2)

In the centre of the flower is the green seed-vessel; and if we cut this across, we shall find that it is divided into three parts, each of which contains several young seeds. 位于花朵中间的就是绿色种皮, 我们将其切开, 就会发现,

英国学生科学读本 第69期:欧鲽鱼(1)

Lesson 69 The Finny Plaice 第69课 欧鲽鱼 The plaice is one of the fishes that we call flat fishes, such as the sole, the flounder, and the turbot. It is from twelve to eighteen inches long, and weighs about two or three pounds. As in all the fla

英国学生科学读本 第69期:欧鲽鱼(2)

It has a short fin near the middle of each side just behind its head, and another pair of short fins between the head and the belly fin. It has also a large tail fin. 在身体每一侧头部下方靠近中间的位置上也分别有一个短鳍, 另外

英国学生科学读本 第67期:羊毛漫谈(2)

A single fibre of wool is very weak, but by means of a machine these fibres are twisted together to make woollen yarn, which is a strong, loose thread. This twisting together of the fibres is called spinning. The fibres are curly or wavy, and are als

英伦广角 2011-07-10 三名英国学生泰国遇难

The three friends were just days into their big trip. They'd planned to spend 9 weeks in Thailand before starting university. But 19-year-old Bruno Melling-Firth, 20-year-old Max Boomgaarden-Cook and Conrad Quashie who was 19 were all killed when the

英国学生科学读本 第36期:浑身是宝的绵羊(1)

Lesson 36 The Useful Sheep 第36课 浑身是宝的绵羊 The sheep is not very much like the cow, is it? It is much smaller, and it has quite a different kind of coat.But still the sheep and the cow are of the same familythe large family of animals

遇英国学生，中国老师很抓狂

A group of Chinese teachers has blamed the generosity of Britain's benefits system for lack of ambition, ill-discipline and idleness among school pupils. They believe the option of living on welfare handouts has produced 'feather-bedded' teenagers pr

英国学生科学读本 第45期:一种叫鳎的比目鱼(1)

Lesson 45 The Flat Fish Called The Sole 第45课 一种叫鳎的比目鱼 Does your mother ever give you fish for dinner? If so, I dare say that you have eaten the fish called the sole. From the shape of its body it is called a flat fish. 小朋友, 妈

英国学生科学读本 第47期: 人类的朋友(2)

The dog has bright and knowing eyes, but he cannot see at night so well as the cat can. The pupil, or little black space in the middle of each eye, is never so large as that of the cat. Pussy chases the mice by night, but the dog hunts only in the da

英国学生科学读本 第30期:马铃薯(1)

Lesson 30 The Potato 第30课 马铃薯 Next to bread, there is perhaps nothing which is so much used for food in our country as the potato. Yet the potato was not known in Great Britain until about three hundred years ago, when it was brought from A

英国学生科学读本 第25期:鲱鱼(1)

Lesson 25 The Herring 第25课 鲱鱼 Herrings are a kind of fish that live in the sea. They like salt water. Indeed if they are put into fresh water, they soon die. Now the gold-fish which we read about the other day likes fresh water, and it would