The standard measure of a food's spiciness is its rating on the Scoville scale, 食物辣度的标准计量方法是借助史高维尔辣度单位测量, which measures how much its capsaicin content can be diluted before the heat is no longer dete

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

A: 欢迎大家来到这期的美语训练班! 我是杨琳! B: 我是Mike! 杨琳,来告诉大家今天都要学什么! A: 好! 今天,我们要一起来聊聊赌博上瘾该怎么办,看看亿万富翁是如何练成的,还要告诉你怎么说

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Hello, I'm Melissa Long here at the CNN Center in Atlanta on this Tuesday, July 29th. Here's a look at some of the stories happening NOW IN THE NEWS. A fast-moving wildfire in Northern California has exploded out of control today. About 3, 000 firef

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Very roomy. For a single-seat fighter it's spacious. Plenty of room to lay out stuff we carry with us. The nose is cut and you won't see any perpendicular surfaces go around. The four probes in the front are not machine guns. And they are not hologra

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The Colorful History of Billiards 台球的沿革 Anyone who refuses to leave prison simply because they are having too much fun playing billiards would be considered something more than just a diehar

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Luck's Run Out 运气用光了 From the time they were in high achool, Wendy and Tina awore that after graduation they would work to save up enough money for two tickets to Las Vegas. Once there they would spent all their money gambling in fancy casi

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This Sunday is the biggest sporting event of the year for Americans: the Super Bowl. More than ninety million people in the United States watched the National Football League championship game on television

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about global warming /P Play music from Paul Simon /P And tell about American Indian tribes in the state of Virginia as t

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We hear music from singers who performed recently at the Merriweather Post Pavilion /P Answer a question about Native Americans /P And report

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US Student on 'Budget' Tour Held in N. Korea An American student has been arrested in North Korea. The arrest is the latest in a series of arrests of U.S. citizens. Analysts say North Korea uses the citizens as bargaining chips. The student is Otto F

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李华和Larry要去听演唱会。今天我们要学两个常用语:run-of-the-mill和roll the dice。 LH: Larry,今天晚上的演唱会好听么?那个乐队是什么类型的啊? L: Well ... they're kind of hard to describe. Their music i

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Occasionally, without warning, the 2)drunken 3)wreckage of my father would 4)wash up on our doorstep, late at night, stammering, laughing, 5)reeking of 6)booze. Bang! Bang! Bang! Beating on the door, pleading to my mother to open it. 有时候,在毫

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According to conventional wisdom the line between genius and madness is a very thin one. Now a study suggests the line may be even more blurred than previously thought. 传统观点认为天才和疯子只有一线之隔。如今有研究显示他们之

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For the last 10 years, job listing site CareerBuilder has put out a list it calls The Most Unbelievable Excuses for Calling in Sick. 在过去十年间,一个名叫凯业必达 的求职网站每年都会列出一张清单,名为最不可思议的请

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Everyone considered him The coward of the county It never stool one single time To prove the countys His mama named him Tommy The folks just called him Yellow Something always told me They were reading Tommys wrong He was only ten years old When his

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CHANGSHA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- A court in central China's Hunan Province on Friday concluded the trial of nine people involved in the case of a teenager who sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPhone and an iPad. The court will later pronounce its verdi

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LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The late Gabriel Garcia-Marquez once said that the inspiration for his books came from daily life in his region. Surrealism runs through the streets, he said in an interview in 1973. Surrealism comes from the reality of

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

The second is the realisation that players will happily pay real money for virtual goods. 第二,玩家将更愿意为虚拟商品支付真实资金。 These can be upgrades, costumes or weapons for their in-game characters, 虚拟商品可能是游戏

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Jane Austen 文艺;书评;简奥斯汀 A puzzle inside an enigma 迷中之谜 Cults, cultures and one-upmanship 崇拜,文化,胜人一筹 What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved. By John Mullan.

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-Howard:Okay. Are you from the Star Wars universe? universe:宇宙 好吧,你是来自星战吗? -Leonard:Yes. 是的。 -Howard:Were you in the original trilogy? original:原版的,原作的 trilogy:三部曲 你是星战原三部曲

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