LAUNCH OF ONE - A NEW CONTRACT WITH THE PEOPLE The image that many people have of the average DSS office can be pretty grim. They think of barriers in front of you, a bureaucratic system, grubby offices. Now imagine what it is like for a disabled pe

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 布莱尔首相演讲

What if we go back 2,000 years? This is the image of a horse from classical antiquity. It was made to decorate a Roman household, about one hundred years before Christ. And clearly the artists here ha

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 人、艺术、世界

Jobs recognised technology was on the cusp of allowing us to communicate through computers. 乔布斯认识到 科技应该能够让我们利用电脑进行交流 And, in fact, the Next's powerful operating system 事实上 Next计算机功能强大的

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 名人传记

The sight of a grown woman lying on the floor, her wrist pinned down by the foot of someone who was supposed to be caring for her was one of the more shocking images that emerged from Winterbourne View, the private hospital which was home to 44 peopl

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

When I'm sitting in the Multi-faith Centre at the Athlete's Village I can look around at the diverse representation of humanity I am with. 我坐在运动员村的宗教多元中心,环顾四周,看见了形形色色、各具代表的人。 We ar

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

Their jaws are a little bit different. That's how we tell these two animals apart. 它们的双颚也有些不同。这也被用来区分这两种动物。 Nanotyrannus has more teeth in its jaws. 矮暴龙的嘴里牙齿更多。 The teeth are prett

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 侏罗纪搏击俱乐部

In terms of the kind of dialogue that existed between attack and defense, it is very clear now to me that the appearance of trebuchet on the scene shifted that balance radically in favor of attack. It

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(136) / 评论(0) 分类 中世纪攻城战

Breaking a sweat? Researchers are creating a skin patch that can test those droplets while people exercise and beam results to their smartphones, possibly a new way to track health and fitness. 大汗淋漓?研究人员正在研制一种皮肤贴片,

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

But when hundreds of thousands of Chinese started showing up in my country, 但是,当成千上万的中国人开始出现在我的国家, working hard on the railroads and the mines and then kicking back in the evening just like they had in the ol

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

This is AP news minute. 1. Former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres has died at the age of 93. He was hospitalized two weeks ago after a stroke. Peres has been part of Israeli politics almost since the country was founded, and was co-

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2016(十)月

改革难民营能源供给方式或能拯救人民生命 The global displacement of people has reached its highest ever level who makes 59.5 million people have been forced to leave their homes according to the United Nations. Refugee camps are swel

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(一月)

Uber has hired a former Nasa engineer to help it to research flying cars. 优步(Uber)聘请了美国国家航空航天局(NASA)一名前工程师来协助研究飞行汽车。 After more than 30 years at the US space agency, Mark Moore is joining Ub

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

That's not true. 这是错的。 In seven years, we could pull off an industrial mission to Shackleton and demonstrate that you could provide commercial reality out of this in low-earth orbit. 七年之内,我们能够胜利完成一项去沙克尔顿

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲商业篇

主餐一道:泛听练习 以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 NPR边听边练

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and our guest this week on Wordmaster is writer Paul Dixon, just out with a new version of Slang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanisms. PAUL DIXON: Most slang dictionaries go A-to-Z and they co-mingle the s

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

For months, technology fans have been buzzing about what Apple had up its sleeve for the iPad. 近几个月以来,科技发烧友们持续热议苹果倾力研发的全新iPad产品。 Earlier this month, Apple finally unveiled its third-generation

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

President Barack Obama is in the U.S. midwest on what the White House calls an economic bus trip through politically important states as he ramps up campaigning for the 2012 presidential election. The president faces some new poll numbers reflecting

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

We often have a tendency to overthink life and end up making it more difficult than it needs to be. 我们经常会什么事都想太多,最终把人生变得更加复杂,其实人生本不该复杂。 Living from your head as opposed to your hea

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening

We're looking at The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. 我们正在看波提切利的《维纳斯的诞生》。 This is, of course, one of the most iconic images in the history of western art. 这是,当然,西洋艺术史中最具标志性的图像之

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 欧美人文风情

Teaching economics 经济学教育 The demand side 需求方 The economics curriculum is evolving, but too slowly for some 经济学课程正在不断发展,但对于某些人来说节奏略慢 I DON'T care who writes a nation's laws, or crafts its

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列