First Flight Completed of Plane with No Moving Parts Engineers say they have carried out the first-ever flight of an electric airplane with no moving parts. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, recently shared video of th

发表于:2018-12-14 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

Listen this way听力教程第三册-5

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 Listen this way听力教程

It is the worlds largest cave and no one even knew it existed until recently. Son Doong Cave was discovered in 1991 in the rugged mountains of central Vietnam (map). A local man by the name of Ho Khanh discovered an entrance to the cave but did not h

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松英文阅读

Well, their lives changed in an instant. Suddenly Jim and Carolyn McCullar from Washington state are mega millionaires. Jim says he knows exactly what to do with the money. Been married 41 years, I know what to do with this check. That's right. Happy

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2011年(一)月

[00:-1.00]lesson 29 Adventure Holidays [00:-2.00]Himalayan Adventure [00:-3.00]Just imagine.You are walking along a mountain path in the Himalayas. [00:-4.00]You are feeling tired. [00:-5.00]You are thinking about how far there is to go. [00:-6.00]Th

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(152) / 评论(0) 分类 高中英语北京必修模块

AS IT IS 2015-11-07 Star Trek, US Elections, Jon Stewarts Comeback 囧叔乔恩-斯图尔特回归 If you are a science fiction movie fan, you probably saw the last two Star Trek films. But did you know the films are based on the characters introduce

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

Todd: OK, Steven, what do you want to talk about? 好,Steven,你想谈点什么呢? Steven: Hiking! 徒步旅行! Todd: Hiking! Are you a big mountain man? 徒步旅行!你喜欢爬高山吗? Steven: Yeah, yeah, I really love getting out in

发表于:2019-01-15 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 实战口语情景对话

李华帮Larry收拾东西,准备搬家。今天我们要学两个常用语:the last straw和loose ends. LH: Larry, 你怎么存了这么多垃圾!我看干脆都扔了,别搬走了。 LL: Junk? Throw it away? These are all precious! How coul

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Have you ever talked with a friend about a problem only to realize that he just doesn't seem to grasp why the issue is so important to you? 你有没有遇到过这样的情况,当你跟一个朋友聊起自己的困难,你发现他好像无法明白

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As a coping strategy when dealing with literary snobs (who will judge you to your face because you havent read the books they have), you sometimes have to pretend youve read a book you havent. 相信你一定遇到过这样的人,如果你没读过他

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One of my favorite stories comes from Frank Serafine. 我最喜欢的段子之一来自于弗兰克塞拉凡尼。 He's a contributor to our library, and a great sound designer for Tron and Star Trek and others. 他是我们音效库的贡献者之一,

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美国很多高校在资深教授退休前都会为他们安排讲授一堂面向全校学生的最后一课,表达学校师生对其的崇敬和感激,让教授为自己的教学生涯划上一个完美的句号。卡内基梅隆大学将其命名

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难民涌入 意大利和希腊压力大 Conflict and poverty in Africa and the Middle East and other parts of the world are creating waves of refuges, ready to risk their lives to escape misery. Europe has been flooded with migrants and this year th

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Jobs had formed a club at Homestead High to put on music-and-light shows and also play pranks. (They once glued a gold-painted toilet seat onto a flower planter.) 乔布斯在家园高中的时候曾经组织过一个俱乐部,进行音乐灯光表演

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

[scene: in Alicia s house,they have the dinner] -Leonard: Gee,Penny,thanks for buying us dinner. 哇 Penny 谢谢你给我们买晚餐 -Howard: Yeah,what's the occasion? occasion: 理由 是啊有何事相求? -Penny: No,no occasion-- just felt like,

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The Moneyless Man: Broke by Choice and Loving It Mark Boyle is a hard guy to get in touch with. Living out of a yellowed trailer permanently cinder-blocked on a patch of farmland somewhere between Bath and Bristol, the thirty-one-year-old Brit rarely

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IS this the world's first ever 'slofie'? 这是世界上第一张树懒拍吗? A man used his selfie stick for a brilliant snap with an a happy creature while trekking through the forest in South America. 一名男子在南美丛林徒步旅行时,

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

I have noted that the healthy release of emotion is frequently very unhealthy for those closest to you. Mr. Spock 我已经注意到,对自身有益的情感宣泄常常会伤及周围的亲人。斯波克 Ignoring the often sage advice of the grea

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Do you remember Star Trek? Star Trek was a science-fiction TV series which began in the 1960s. Later there were 10 Star Trek films. In Star Trek, the characters explore the galaxy and discover new worlds. They defend civilisation from aliens who wish

发表于:2019-03-01 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

So, anyway, last night on video chat,I spent, like, 20 minutes just staring into Lucy's eyes. 昨天晚上我跟露西视频我盯着她的双眸足足有二十分钟 平安 Oh, that sounds romantic. 听起来很浪漫啊 It was until I realized the

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