Topics: Ask an American La Brea Tar Pits; until versus till/til versus by; to restore versus to recover; CCU (coronary care unit) Words: fossil to preserve stuck asphalt flypaper to succumb to torn apart to wander predator scavenger climate precautio

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 has landed in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing. The plane touched down safely earlier this morning after arriving on a flight from Myanmar. Solar Impulse 2 began its trip to China yesterday morning from the c

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A类小作文 图表类型: 流程图 作文题目 : The diagram shows the process of collecting rain water and purifying it to drinking water in Australia. 写作指导: 1时间顺序 2 连接词的使用 3 被动语态 4 一般现在时 5 分阶

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In the last five years we've added 70 million tons of CO2 every 24 hours -- 25 million tons every day to the oceans. 在过去五年间,我们每二十四小时已经增加了了七千万吨的二氧化碳排放量,每天排放两千五百万吨的

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

Ralph Waldo Emerson described language as fossil poetry. 诗人艾默生曾将语言描述为化石般的诗。 But before it was fossil poetry, language was fossil metaphor. 但是在它成为化石般的诗之前,语言是化石般的暗喻。 An

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环境问题一直雅思口语中经久不衰,比如近水之地、家乡可改变的地方、你关注的环境问题等等...下面雅思频道就为同学们整理了环境问题相关的词汇,希望同学们可以用到雅思口语话题中,

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Well, as you learn in life science and then later on in biology, different species have different features. And if you were an expert -- and some of you will be one day -- you'll be able look at the different whales and know which one is which. But s

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(man) Today I want to discuss fossil fuels such as coat, oil, and natural gas. The term fossil fuel refers to the trapped remains of plants and animals in sedimentary rock. You see, living plants trap energy from the sun by the process of photosynth

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Hydropower, geothermal, wind, solar, biomass. 水力,地热,风力,太阳能以及生物质。 Did you know that last year, for 299 days, 你们知道去年总共有299天, we did not use any fossil fuels in order to generate all our electric

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Robyn Williams: Australia has some of the finest living dinosaurs in the world. Yes, I mean birds. Our birds were among the first purveyors of birdsong in ancient history, so the science suggested earlier this year, despite what David Attenborough ha

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Science and technology 科学与技术 Splay-footed, not flat-footed 不是扁平足而是八字足 A new fossil shows that evolution does not always mean change 新发现的化石显示,进化并不总意味着变化 Palaeontology 古生物学 The

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Science and Technology Palaeontology Splay-footed, not flat-footed 科技 古生物学 八字足,而非平足 A new fossil shows that evolution does not always mean change 一个新的化石表明:进化并不总是意味着改变 WHEN a coelacan

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Science and Technology Palaeontology Splay-footed, not flat-footed 科技 古生物学 不是扁平足而是八字足 A new fossil shows that evolution does not always mean change 新发现的化石显示,进化并不总意味着变化 WHEN a coela

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He had really only one flaw and that was an inability to calculate the correct age of the Earth. The question occupied much of the second half of his career, but he never came anywhere near getting it right. His first effort, in 1862 for an article i

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50 恐龙和鸟:谁是谁的祖先? DATE=5-23-01 TITLE=SCIENCE REPORT - Dinosaurs and Birds BYLINE=Mario Ritter (Start at 59

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Science and technology 科学技术 Palaeontology 古生物学 Remember the tooth 牙齿的痕迹 A link is made in an ancient ecosystem 古代生态系统中的线索 WHO ate whom in the food chains of the past is rarely clear. 在古代谁以吃谁为

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

1. Legendary investor Warren Buffett is warning shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway that economic turmoil is likely to continue. Turmoil have helped bring a 62% drop in profits at the company last year. 2. President Barack Obama used his weekly m

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2009年(三)月

Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, ever becomes fossilized. 据认为,在10亿根骨头当中,只有大约l根能变成化石。 If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive todaythat's 270 mill

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If you visit upland areas of Britain places like the mountains of Scotland, or Wales, or the Pennine Hills in northern England you will see a lot of sheep. Many of the sheep are in places where there are no walls or hedges to keep them in their field

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14 The Fire Below 第十四章 地下的烈火 In the summer of 1971, a young geologist named Mike Voorhies was scouting around on some grassy farmland in eastern Nebraska, 1971年夏,一位名叫迈克沃里斯的年轻地质学家在内布拉斯加

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