Two thousand years ago in the Kingdom of Israel, the Philistine army marched into the valley of Elah and set up camp. At that time, the King of Israel was Saul. He was a great king before, but by this point had become a weak man. King Saul gathered h

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 常春藤生活英语

Transcript: For thousands of years the Maasai people in Kenya had no doubts about their relationship with the lions who shared the land with them. They were enemies. The lions wanted to kill the tribes livestock and the Maasai had to protect the anim

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What Is Your Achilles' Heel? 词汇典故:什么是你的致命弱点? Hello! And welcome to Words and Their Stories, a VOA Learning English program about American expressions. The Greek poet Homer has given us many phrases. A famous one is Achilles

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Home of Last Comanche Chief Close to Ruins 科曼切族最后一位首领的住宅几成废墟 One of the most interesting people in U.S. history is Quanah Parker, the last chief of the countrys Comanche Indian tribe. Quanah Parker was the son of a C

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk about invented languages. RS: These are the subject of a new book by linguist Arika Okrent. ARIKA OKRENT: For most of the history of invented languages, they've been tryin

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During Jamaica's colonial era, the English capitalized on the island's mild weather and rich soil, planting sugarcane , making Jamaica England's largest supplier. But the riches of the sugarcane came with a price. Thousands of Africans were enslaved

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Twenty-five years ago, in 1987, New Zealand became nuclear-free. The Nuclear-Free Act was passed by the Labour government when David Lange was the Prime Minister. The Act would not allow any ships which were nuclear powered or had nuclear weapons to

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A Dream-梦想 A dream is to a man what wings are to a bird. With a dream in the deep heart's core, a man is spontaneously driven to hitch his wagon to a star. A dream is an inexhaustible source of energy that keeps our enthusiasm burning, and kindle

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 英语背诵80篇

And he was finding that he had a mans thirst, to the raucous delight of the youths around him, 他发现自己的酒量原来和成人差不多,在身旁这群兴高采烈的年轻人怂恿下, who urged him on every time he drained a glass. 每当

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Nymeria was waiting for her in the guardroom at the base of the stairs. She bounded to her feet as soon as she caught sight of Arya. 娜梅莉亚一直在楼梯底部的守卫室里等着她。一见艾莉亚的身影,她立刻跳将起来, Arya

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During his campaign for the presidency, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would not collect the yearly $400,000 presidential salary. On Monday, the president followed through with his promise. Trump gave the money he has earned so far as president

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42Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him and he will bring justice to the nations. 2He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets. 3A bruised reed he will not break, and a smo

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Child, amid the flowers at play, 孩子,你在花丛间玩耍, While the red light fades away; 红色灯火,落入黯淡, Mother, with thine earnest eye, 妈妈回应,你殷切目光, Ever following silently; 默默守护在,你的身旁。

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剧本与台词 Pol: Oh, whats going on? Where what are you pointing? 阿宝:哦,发生了什么?这是哪里? 你指什么? Pol: Oh, OK, sorry. I just wanted to see who the dragon warrior was? 阿宝:哦,抱歉。我只是想看看谁是

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He ate the egg in two bites and flicked a bit of shell out from between his teeth. 他两大口吞下煮蛋,从齿缝间吐出几片蛋壳。 Your brother is in the field with all the power of the north behind him. 你的兄弟虽然上了战场,但

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Were Amazons merely figures of myth, or something more? It was long assumed that they were imaginary, like the cyclops and centaurs. But curiously enough, stories from ancient Egypt, Persia, the Middle East, Central Asia, India, and China also featur

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 留美老师带你每日说英文

本期内容: Domestic action film Wolf Warrior 2 topped the box office in an unprecedented number, grossing 3.4 billion yuan in just 13 days. The film, directed by and starring action star Wu Jing, is now China's top grossing film, breaking the re

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

今天我们要学的词是overwhelmingly。Overwhelmingly副词,意思是压倒性的、占绝对优势的 。Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly voted for U.S. statehood for their island in a non-binding referendum. 在一场没有法律约束力的全民

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One of the short arrows of the Lamb Men stuck through the meat of his upper arm, 他的上臂插了一枝羊人的短箭, and blood covered the left side of his bare chest like a splash of paint. 赤裸的左胸一片血红,像是泼洒了颜料。

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Know Ive done wrong. I left your heart torn 深知我已犯下大错 让你的心受尽了伤 Is that what devils do? 这种行为和魔鬼无异啊 Took you so low, where only fools go? 让你感到颜面扫地 沦落到傻瓜一般 I shook the ange

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