Britain's new princess named Charlotte 英国小公主命名为夏洛特 Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge named their baby daughter Charlotte. The world waited for two days for the name. She has two middle names. Her title is Her Royal Highnes

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语科技新闻

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Public schools in New York, America's biggest city, commonly have numbers for names. But this is unusual. In the United States, the process of naming a school often involves parents and the community

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First story, two U.S. federal judges have temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's new executive order concerning immigration to America. His previous order on this subject is tied up in court. The new one would have kept all refugees from enteri

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Long years ago the men of Scandinavia were fierce fighters, who drank a strong liquor called mead and used the skulls of their enemies for cups. 很久以前,斯堪的纳维亚人是非常残暴的好斗者,他们喝一种叫蜂蜜酒的烈性酒,

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

【生词预览】 late已故的,masculine男性的, 【笑话原文】 Girls Name When our daughter was born, we named her Myles, after my beloved late father, despite family warning that the name was too masculine. Years later, when I felt she

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语笑话(MP3+文本)

The nineteenth century held one last great surprise for chemists. It began in 1896 when Henri Becquerel in Paris carelessly left a packet of uranium salts on a wrapped photographic plate in a drawer. When he took theplate out some time later, he was

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So by the early years of the nineteenth century, fossils had taken on a certain inescapable importance, which makes Wistar's failure to see the significance of his dinosaur bone all the more unfortunate. Suddenly, in any case, bones were turning up a

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Today we know that these are the stars that are close to us, and that they turn with the earth around the sun. 今天我们知道,那是和地球一道绕着太阳转动的星星。 They are called planets. 人们称它们为行星。 But the ancie

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Faith Lapidus. Happy New Year! Before we look ahead to two thousand ten, we want to talk about some of the best movies and books of two thousand nine. And we play some great music w

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所以历任美国总统都有养过哪些宠物呢?看英语君为你一一盘点吧~简直就是个白宫动物园啊! 1)Teddy Roosevelt's Badger 泰迪罗斯福的獾 Teddy Roosevelt and his family nursed the little badger with a bottle and al

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

关系代词:who, whom, that, which whose 用来引起 定语从句 平时我们接触的难句长句,很大一部分是从句。从句让句子变得错综复杂、扑朔迷离,因此划分句子

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OTTAWA, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday that Lieutenant-General Thomas Lawson has been appointed as Canada's new chief of the defence staff, the country's top military post. Lawson, who assumed the position

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WASHINGTON, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Oklahoma City Thunder star James Harden won the vote for NBA sixth man of the Year on Thursday. Harden received 584 of a possible 595 points from the media. Louis Williams, who led the Philadelphia 76ers in scoring (14.

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天我们要学的词是rival。 Rival, 是对头的意思。 President-elect Obama named his one-time chief Democratic rival Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, 美国当选总统奥巴马提名自己原来的民主党对手,联邦参议

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

Some online stores on the shopping site Taobao have banned buyers who give favorable ratings for less than 98 percent of their purchases, in an attempt to curb unfavorable ratings with malicious intent, Beijing Youth Daily reported. 《北京青年报》

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Gretchen's Surprise 格雷琴的惊喜 When people come to America, they are often homesick, because things are not the same as in their own land. 人们来到美国的时候,往往会思念家乡,因为这里的一切与他们家乡不同。 In

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 美国小学英语教材3

讲解 Today's key word is destiny destiny d-e-s-t-i-n-y 命运 A person's destiny is everything that happens to them during their life time. Here is an example: Is it destiny that brings people together, or is it accident? 人们的相遇是天意还是

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In 1904, a retired mathematics teacher named Mr. von Osten had a horse named Clever Hans. One fine morning, von Osten decided to teach his horse to add. What is three plus four? he would call to his pupil, and Clever Hans would paw the ground seven t

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LOS ANGELES, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Country music superstar Taylor Swift was named entertainer of the year at Sunday night's Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) in Vegas, repeating her victory of last year. Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean and Kelly Clar

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In Liverpool, there is a street called Penny Lane. Why is it called Penny Lane? Perhaps the name comes from the penny coin nowdays the smallest coin used in Britain. Perhaps there were shops on Penny Lane which sold cheap things, things which cost on

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