Everything that's alive and quite a few things that aren't, gives off heat. That's what you are looking at now. Every part of your body is burning up energy and creating heat as it goes about the busi

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(146) / 评论(0) 分类 生命物语

I'm a neuroscientist. And in neuroscience, we have to deal with many difficult questions about the brain. 我是个神经生物学家。在神经生物学研究里,我们需要处理很多关于大脑的难题。 But I want to start with the easies

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk with Pat O'Conner, co-author with her husband Stewart Kellerman of a new book called Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language. RS: But fir

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

[00:00.00]Seahorse Fathers Take Reins in Childbirth [00:04.96]Its true that male seahorses never play catch with their children [00:11.31]or help them with their homework. [00:13.28]But they do outdo human dads on one count. [00:16.89]Male seahorses

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 晨读英语美文60篇

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga will help us talk about two kinds of peculiar questions. Isnt that going to be fun! Isn't that going to be fun, is a rhetorical question. Were also going to learn about its cousin. Thats called a ta

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is apostrophes. When I was in second grade, I lost a spelling bee because I misspelled the word its. I put an apostrophe in when I shouldn't have, and it was a very traumatic moment in my young life. So when listeners

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

April is National Poetry Month in the United States, so today we're going to ponder poetic license. What is Poetic License When describing writing, you say people are taking poetic license when they use language in a way that isn't normal or correct.

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(168) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Smart Farm Technology Tracks Behavior of Cows Artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived on the farm. A Dutch company has developed technology to follow the movements and activities of cows. The high-tech system, powered by AI and motion sensors, is ca

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(四)月

[00:-1.00]3.Now listen to the radio programme [00:-2.00]and complete the notes which summarise what the speaker says. [00:-3.00]6. Listen to the discussion between Katy and James. [00:-4.00]7.Listen again and check your answers. [00:-5.00]8.Listen to

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(192) / 评论(0) 分类 高中英语北京必修模块

Everyday Grammar: Advanced Conditionals This week, we are going to talk about the past unreal conditional. Past unreal conditionals are often used to express wishes about the past. They often show regret, or sad feelings about something that happened

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(160) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(六)月

Top 5 Songs for Week Ending Oct. 10 Were rolling out the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending October 10, 2015. This week's lineup is a mixed bag: some songs stay put, while one big hit makes a splas

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(十月)

You give me premature ventricular contractions. You make my heart skip a beat. 语音讲解: 单词发音 premature /ˌpreməˈtʃʊə $ ˌpriːməˈtʃʊr/ ventricular /ven'trɪkjʊlə/ contraction /kənˈtrkʃən/ 连词发音 skip a beat /skɪpə

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(149) / 评论(0) 分类 跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读

The tutor handed the black marker to his student. She was learning English. She constantly spoke to him in Russian, even though he hardly knew net from da. She wrote the two contractions for he is not on the whiteboard. He said, Very good. She smiled

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇故事(纽约)

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is subversive Christmas carols. And now, on to our question. There's a listener named Kat whose holiday joy is crushed every time she hears the Christmas carol Joy to the World. She asks: Why do we sing 'Joy to the wo

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(248) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

A new trend has been popping up all over the world--on mobile phones! SMS messages are becoming as common as telephone calls because they're fast, cheap and fun. Here are some tips on using SMS, or Short Message Service, to get your mes

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 英语作文

Text me! 发我短消息! English has a very difficult spelling system, and it can take a long time to spell out one word. So, many people now shorten words to speed up the process. This saves time, but it can also confuse people if they are not fami

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Scientists say they have discovered why drinking coffee makes it harder for women to conceive. 科学家宣称,他们已经发现了饮用咖啡所导致女性怀孕几率下降的原因所在。 Caffeine, the stimulant in coffee, impairs the trans

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

1.shortenings: 截短 APP - application,sync - synchronization 2.Initialisms: 首字母 UN - United Nations,CD - compact disc,SIM - subscriber identification module 3.Contractions: 收缩 Dr. - doctor,Mr. - Mister,can't - can not ,VS - ve

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 早安英文

虽然说工作中最经常使用的沟通工具是电话和邮件,但是,有的时候不方便打电话而且没办法查收邮件的时候,外企白领一般是用短信来沟通的。但是大家都知道,中文的短信比较容易发,但

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Science and Technology 科技 A synthetic jellyfish that swims 人造水母水中游 Meet Medusoid, a bioengineered artificial jellyfish created by researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard University. 这就是梅多索依德,

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(154) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合