Sleep and Obesity A study published Monday found that people who sleep less tend to be fat. Monday's study covered 1,000 people and found that total sleep time decreased as body mass index -- a measure of weight based on height -- increased. Men slep

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about a visit to the planet Mercury. We will tell about the dangers of products for making skin lighter. And, w

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AS IT IS 2015-08-25 Global Markets Fall as China Economic Fears Rise 全球股市下跌,中国经济担忧增加 Stock market shares in China fell sharply early Monday. The Shanghai Composite dropped 8.5 percent, marking the sharpest fall China has s

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手可是我们身体上很重要的一个器官哦,大家都知道手叫hand,那你知不知道五个手指在英语中都怎么表达呢?我们一一来看一下。 大拇指thumb 英语里称呼大拇指为thumb。五指相互配合会很灵活

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Books: 1) Traditional medium 2) Easy to carry 3) Conveniently read 4) index of academic environment 1) Not durable 2) Low rate of updating 3) Can't be shared by any people 22 University: library V.S. Physical training facilities Library: 1) Major goa

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是身体最重要的一个部分,许多的奇迹都出自我们的双手。手有五指,每个指头都有各自不同的名称,这些名称在英文中该如何描述?手掌和手背又该怎么说?小编今天就带大家一起学习一下

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Asian stocks continued a falling trend amid global bear market. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closed at 2,433 points, down 0.4 percent. The Shenzhen Component Index fell 1.2 percent. Hong Kong stocks closed down 1.36 percent, at 17,669.

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Business Corporate political donations Lighten our darkness 商业 公司政治献金 拨云见日 There are big differences in what firms reveal about their political donations 政治献金信息披露因公司而异 IT IS not just the incestuous ma

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The stock-market plunge on Monday ended a six-day rally that followed government efforts to arrest the freefall that wiped nearly a third off the value of the market since mid-June. Shares nosedived with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index plungin

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Fund managers have built up their largest underweight position in Chinese stocks for at least six years. 基金公司对中国股市的低配幅度达到至少6年来的最高水平。 The unusually large bet against the Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenz

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Qingdao becomes the most livable city in China of 40 cities surveyed, according to the Chinese livable cities research report released by the Chinese Academy of Science. 中科院近日发布的《中国宜居城市研究报告》显示,在受调查的

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A wave of foreclosures and a glut of unsold homes pushed U.S. housing prices down in March. Tuesday's report from the closely-watched Case-Shiller index of property values in 20 U.S. cities was 3.6 percent below the same month a year earlier. High un

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

和手指头有关的英文短语

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美国制造业二月回升 WASHINGTON, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Economic activity in the U.S. manufacturing sector accelerated in February, reversing two months of slowing growth, an industry survey showed on Monday. The manufacturing index, also known a

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China's Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), a preliminary readout of the country's manufacturing activity, rose to 50.5 percent in January of 2012, the highest level since October, indicating that a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy may be

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

英语 和汉语对手指的称呼既有差别又有相似之处。现介绍如下: 1. thumb: 大拇指。与汉语相映成趣的是, 英语 的all (fingers and) thumbs表示笨手笨脚的意思,例如: I'm all fingers and thumbs this morni

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WASHINGTON, April 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. builder confidence for newly-built, single-family homes continued to drop in April, indicating the market had been losing momentum since the beginning of this year, a leading industry report said on Monday. The b

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Housing场景特色词汇: 租房: apartment-hunting,post an ad, rent and utilities (including heat),dirt-cheap, tenant,landlord, sublet,housing-sitting,roommate-wanted,rent (affordable),quietness, pet-allowed, lease (contract), w

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男人手指长度决定对女人吸引力 Forget witty chat-up lines and splashing on the aftershave. It appears the secret of a mans attractiveness to the opposite sex lies in his hands. Men whose ring fingers are longer than their index fingers ar

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Sales of new homes in the U.S. fell last month, but still are edging higher than in the last months of 2011. The government's Commerce Department said Tuesday that buyers in March bought new houses at an annual pace of 328,000, off more than 7 percen

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