The ancient Japanese art of origami - or paper folding - is thriving today in San Francisco - thanks largely to an American scientist. Remember how much fun it was to play with paper airplanes as a kid? Most people give up those kinds of hobbies once

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(三月)

2015年,习大大走过了很多国家地区,出席过很多重要会议,发表了很多主旨演讲,引用过很多经典古语。2015年,习大大让中国很风采 ,也让中国文化很出彩 。这一年,习大大到底向世界传递

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口译

中华民族的传统文化、博大精深,源远流长。 The traditional Chinese culture, both extensive and profound, dates back to ancient times. 早在2000多年前,中国就产生了以孔孟为代表的儒家学说,和以老庄为代表的

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Up next, it's made from Egyptian marble. It costs more than $140,000 to create. It stands 20 feet tall and weighs almost 11 tons and that's in only two-thirds the size of the original. 下则新闻,它是用埃及大理石制成的。建造费用超过

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The script of this programme 本节目台词 The famous Reading Room at the British Museum Neil: OK Jean, keep your eyes closed until I say. Jean: Oh, where have you brought me this time? Neil: Heres a clue. Where do you think you can see Egyptian mummie

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 都市掠影

The Guatemalan descendants of the ancient Mayan civilisation have held a traditional Last Sun ceremony to welcome the dawning of the start of the new Mayan calendar on Friday. December 21st marks the end of an age in the 5-thousand year-old Mayan cal

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BBC news with David Austin. Russia has launched a major operation in Syria using the flotilla of ships it has deployed off the Syrian coast. It said it had targeted IS and Al Qaeda-linked rebels in the provinces of Idlib and Homs. Meanwhile, the Syri

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August 7th, 1998. Bombs explode minutes apart outside the US embassies in the Eastern African nations of Kenya and Tanzania. The blasts kill more than 200 people including a dozen Americans and injure thousands more. Osama bin Ladens al-Qaida terror

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 历史上的今天-2012年

Topic 1-Over half of respondents support the idea that English should be a selective course A recent survey reveals that over 50% of respondents support the idea that English should be a selective course for Chinese students. Do you agree with that?

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New Guinea is a vast island nestled close to the continental landmass of Australia. As we move south and east, to smaller, more distant islands, the wildlife becomes even more unusual.

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Trastevere is one of the Rome's most ancient neighborhoods. Founded during the reign of Emperor Augustus, its name means literally across the Tiber. But more than a river separates the people of Trastevere from the rest of the city, Trasteverini have

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You know, they are fairly kind of flat pieces of bones, so I would think maybe this is part of the skull of a jaw. Am I anywhere near? Yes, yes, you are absolutely right. So what you have here are two lower jaws of a dug-out dinosaur. Oh, brilliant,

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Based on similar discoveries in continental Euro, professor Noibao identified it can be a long barrel tomb, known as a long barrow. 33 meters, that's a normal length of a continental long barrow. These are really huge buildings, and they actually get

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Introduce a Colleague 介绍同事 A:John, hello, good to see you again. 您好,约翰,很高兴再次见到您。 B:Hello, Peter. How's business. 您好,彼得,生意怎么样? A:Oh, can't complain. 哦,还不错。 B:And the family? 家庭

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Harris had just turned 75 years old. He was feeling so ancient. He wanted his youth back. He used to be strong and handsome. Now he was wrinkly and flabby. He used to love adventure. He even wrestled an alligator once. Now, he was too lazy to even go

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语第4级听力-English Level 4

They wrote on long strips of this papyrus, which were then rolled up into scrolls. 他们写在这种莎草纸的长条片上,然后卷成书卷。 A whole heap of these scrolls has survived. 一大堆这样的书卷被保存下来了。 And when w

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 世界小史

Only rarely in the course of all that time did people turn against this strict conformity. 在这整个漫长的时期中人们只对这种严格的老一套反对过两次。 Once was shortly after the reign of King Cheops, about 2,100 BC, when the

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The script is called cuneiform, meaning wedge-shaped. 人们称它为cuneiform,意思是楔形文字。 Books made of papyrus were unknown to the Mesopotamians. 人们在美索不达米亚不曾发现过莎草纸书。 They inscribed these signs in

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 世界小史

But the mummies of other kings and those of many ancient Egyptians have been found undisturbed in their tombs. 但是人们却发现别的国王的以及许多古代埃及人的木乃伊仍还在他们的墓穴里。 A tomb was intended to be a dwell

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 世界小史

A team of archeologists working in Jordan has made a discovery that represents a new chapter in the story of our ancestors' move from foraging to farming. The researchers unearthed an ancient granary. The round, mud hut dates back more than 11,000 y

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