to keep one's eye on the ball eye-opener 我们再给大家介绍一个又eye组成的俗语:To keep one's eye on the ball。To keep one's eye on the ball这个常用语原先是来自球类运动,如

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Imagine climbing diamond mountains, or hiking around the graphite shores of a lake of tar. Sound a little sci-fi? Well a new discovery suggests planets like that

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The clues are adding up to give a picture of a distant Martian past, when the planet had a thick atmosphere that was warm enough for water to stream on the surface. But now the waters gone, and the atmosphere is so thin that any water would boil away

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When it comes to sheer celestial bling, stars might not corner the market on twinkle, because beneath their rocky exteriors, some terrestrial planets may be half diamond. So said scientists at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The r

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The Solar System 太阳系 The solar system consists of the sun, eight planets and billions of small planets. 太阳系包括太阳、八大行星和数十亿颗小行星。 These eight planets and small planets orbit around the sun. 八大行星和小

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World 世界 When we say the world, we mean the planet Earth. 当我们说世界一词时,其实指的是行星地球。 The world is more than 4.5 billion years old, so it has a long history. 地球已超过45亿岁了,所以它有着漫长的历史

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Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter Orbit 朱诺号探测器进入木星轨道 American scientists cheered loudly as their spacecraft, called Juno, entered Jupiters orbit Monday night. Juno, welcome to Jupiter! The scientists are with the U.S. space agenc

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AS IT IS 2016-02-04 Trending Today: Puppy Bowl This is What's Trending Today: This weekend is Super Bowl Sunday. Two teams will play for the championship of American football. The Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos are busy preparing for Super Bowl

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NASA Paints Pluto Wild With Color NASA公布冥王星表面色彩 NASA, the U.S. agency that explores outer space, calls this image Psychedelic Pluto. Pluto is the furthest planet in our solar system. The word psychedelic means bright, edgy colors, a

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Yeah, even when I'm on my own I know I'm not alone 'Cause you got me And when others try to turn me down I'm gonna stand my ground Like you told me See I I think that you were sent from heaven to protect me That's why I don't mind doing anything you

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托福阅读文章常见题材思路及词汇 TOEFL阅读有一些常见高频题材,这些题材下面会有经常考到的固定词汇和思路,整理出来供大家分享。 生物类: 迁徙动物migrate 群居动物 social animal 独居动物

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不要让你的生活被这5件事控制 Don't allow yourself to be controlled by these 5 things. 你的生活是否被太多事情牵绊?会不会每次想干点事情就变得畏畏缩缩、瞻前顾后,最后又变成不了了之?很多人的工

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Proofread by Jana Elizabeth. Whimpering sounds.. What dismal dogs we were! Our tails were well and truly between our legs, as the pirate cat people marched us away at the points of their laser guns. They led us to a corner of their camp that seemed r

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Well, it's the relative importance. 就是二者间的相对重要性。 You would say-yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know this;water covers twice the area of the planet than dry land. 也许你会说,是,是,是,我们都知道,地球上水覆盖的

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The other point: It's about taking responsibility. 另外的一个关键问题,是关于承担责任的问题。 For so much of my life, I wanted something else to make me happy. 我在生活的大部分时间里都努力使自己高兴。 I though

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Adam Navis. Voice 2 And I'm Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Imagine a world where the sun neve

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So if Pluto really is a planet, it is certainly an odd one. It is very tiny: just one-quarter of 1 percent as massive as Earth. If you set it down on top of the United States, it would cover not quite half the lower forty-eight states. 因此,如果冥

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As for Pluto itself, nobody is quite sure how big it is, or what it is made of, what kind of atmosphere it has, or even what it really is. A lot of astronomers believe it isn't a planet at all, but merely the largest object so far found in a zone of

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One nice touch about Christy's discovery was that it happened in Flagstaff, for it was there in 1930 that Pluto had been found in the first place. That seminal event in astronomy was largely to the credit of the astronomer Percival Lowell. 克里斯蒂

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His face turned from white to red as he continued: 他的脸气得发红,然后又接着说道: If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to l

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