monk = a religious man who spends much time praying and thinking about religion. monastery = a place where monks live. a vow of silence = a promise not to speak A man wanted to become a monk so he went to the monastery and talked to the head monk. Th

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It's 3 friends with gourmet taste on a search for the perfect cup of coffee that help jump-start the whole specialty coffee revolution in the US. In 1971 after trying the coffee in cafs from Berkeley to Vancouver, Jerry Baldwin and his partners opene

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WHO称柬埔寨缺少心理服务 PHNOM PENH Cambodia has some of the worlds worst mental health statistics largely due to the effects of Pol Pots murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Yet mental health services remain underfunded and in the words of the Wor

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Wake up and Smell the Coffee 饮咖啡也要思源 Some people cannot imagine starting the day without a cup of coffee. From the most fashionable cafes of Paris to the breakfast stands lining the streets of Taipei, coffee has firmly established itsel

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Global Warming Threatens Himalayas A new report says the Himalayan mountains of south Asia arethreatened by the warming of the Earth's climate. The report sayshuman activities are partly responsible for the warmingtemperatures. The climate changes th

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AS IT IS 2016-06-02 Dead Cubs Found at Thailands Tiger Temple 在泰国老虎庙发现死去的老虎幼崽 Officials in Thailand found 40 dead tiger cubs at a Buddhist temple accused of animal abuse. The dead cubs were discovered Wednesday in a free

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By Brian Padden Turin, Italy 23 February 2006 watch Turin Tour report The city of Turin is trying to use the worldwide media attention paid to the Olympics, to feature other attractions the region has

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Situated on the West Coast of the United States, the city of San Francisco has long been home to many generations of Asians who immigrated to the United States. In a lot of cases, they are Buddhists, but since they are from a variety of cultures and

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❤ 模仿文本:The manuscript may have been preserved in Bavaria, but the individual poems come from all over Europe it seems. Who wrote them? Mainly itinerant students and monks with a taste for satirising the church, although there're a few nam

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英语学习笔记: totem ['to?t?m] n. 图腾 eagle ['i?ɡl] n. 鹰 legend ['led??nd] n. 传说 monk [m??k] n. 僧侣 smuggle ['sm?ɡl] v. 走私 transition [tr?n'z??n] n. 转变 cease [si?s] v. 终止 sideshow ['sa?d?o?] n. 穿插表演 capacity [

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听歌学英语:珠儿的超优美旋律Stand(忍耐) Song:Stand Artist:Jewel Style:Pop Walk in a corner shop See a shoplifting cop See the old lady with a gun See the hero try 2 run Nothing's what it seems, I mean It's not all dirty, but it's

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In the podcast today, we will talk about fact and fiction. A fact is something which is true; something which I, or someone else, can prove to be true. For instance, it is a fact that the earth is round. And fiction is the opposite of fact. It means

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This, in a very general way, is what happened during the centuries which followed the Crusades. 在十字军东征之后的几个世纪时间里,这种情形在欧洲各地普遍发生。 It was a slow process, this gradual shifting of power from t

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Apple has entered the textbook market. The tech giant introduced iBooks textbooks a couple of weeks ago when it announced its iBooks 2 platform. 几周前,苹果公司在iBooks 2平台的发布会上正式推出iBooks,此举表明这一科技巨头

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Hello to you, Im Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com newsroom in Atlanta. Here's a look at whats happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Once a Category-4 storm now is just a tropical storm, Paloma continues to push in the Atlantic. The storm passed over Cuba yester

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The dogs are trained to look for lost travellers; 僧侣们训练这些犬去搜寻失踪的游客; and every day in winter they are sent out, generally in pairs. 在冬天,他们每天都派出狗搜寻,通常是每次两只。 One has a baske

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LESSON 42 The lost child 第四十二课 失踪的小孩 It was a clear, cold, winter night, 那个冬天夜晚,晴朗而寒冷, The heavens were brightly starred, 天空布满繁星, When on St. Bernard's snowy height 在圣伯纳修道院 The

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Chapter 33 Pope vs. emperor 第三十三章 教皇与皇帝之争 The strange double loyalty of the people of the middle ages and how it led to endless quarrels between the popes and the holy roman emperors 中世纪人民奇特的双重效忠制度,

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Liz Waid. Voice 2 And I'm Adam Navis. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 3 Listen carefully, my son, to the m

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