OliverJeffers生在澳大利亚西部,但成长于北爱尔兰的贝尔法斯特,现在纽约。是个插画师,也是个作家。从 2004 年至今,他在动画界获奖无数。他的画充满童真,有点淡淡的忧伤,但又有浓烈的

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 TOP50 初级英文绘本

With the spider exposed, it's now a battle between the wasp's paralyzing sting and the spider's jaws. But the wasp has quick reflex es. Cornered, the spider now plays its trump card. Hurling itself do

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 浩瀚沙漠

In this barren sea of sand, it's harder for larger animals to find enough to eat. You've got to be a real specialist, like the Namib sand snake. By sidewinding, it can swim its way up the dunes. But i

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On certain nights, the secret is revealed. Warm, damp air moving in from the mid-Atlantic is transformed to fog as it crosses the cold coastal current. A vast blanket of moisture steadily rolls across

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In spring , the desert undergoes a remarkable transformation. For just a few weeks a year, the flowers of over 3, 000 different plant species turn this desert into the Garden of Africa. This dazzling

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In the east, another ancient range, the Urals , separates Europe from Asia. Both these ranges are evidence of Europe's earliest formation, the results of processes that began half a billion years ago.

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 欧洲自然写真

They make perfect roof tiles, but these tiles occasionally reveal something extraordinary. Perfect snapshot s from 115 million years ago, back then, Solnhofen was part of a very still and salty tropic

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Parts of Pangaea were periodically flooded by shallow seas. But time and again this water evaporated, leaving layer upon layer of salt. Today these massive deposits lie buried deep beneath the Netherl

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英语短文:A very dear cat Kidnappers are rarely interested in Animals, but they recently took considerable interest in Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay's cat. Mrs Eleanor Ramsay, a very wealthy old lady,has shared a flat with her cat, Rastus, for a great man

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An international tiger conservation workshop is underway in Yunnan's capital, Kunming. Topics for discussion include the protection of wild tigers and combating the illegal trade in animal products. Shi Kun is the director of the wildlife institute a

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 世界各地新闻集锦

Idiom: Look what the cat dragged in(sb who are a little dirty or who looks like a mess ) Hit the book: figure skating 花样滑冰 broke the record 打破记录

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A steep sided forest, rapidly narrowing as it descended, it was a place that immediately made Madison nervous. It's a kind of place that just intrinsically leaves you feeling ill at ease because there's not much of an easy way to get out, once you ge

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The Arabian camel--not even a native , was domesticated in the deserts of Asia and brought to Northern Africa as a means of transport. In the past , Tuareg nomads used camels to move slaves, gold and

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Cheetah s are sprinter s, not made for a long-distance chase. So they must get close. But springbok have keen senses. True to their name, springbok can leap two meters high. It's jumping with a purpos

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 浩瀚沙漠

It’s the wettest of all African deserts, the great Kalahari. The sands of the Kalahari cover more of southern Africa than any other desert. But the higher rainfall here gives it a very distinctive a

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 浩瀚沙漠

But this hasn't always been so. Over the last 15 million years, Africa's climate has repeatedly swung from wet to dry and back again as Ice Ages have come and gone. At times the Kalahari has been much

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 浩瀚沙漠

...Africa. The African plate has been drifting north over millions of years. And when it pushes against the European plate, huge fold s of rock have been forced up and over one another into great moun

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(163) / 评论(0) 分类 欧洲自然写真

They call me the wild rose 他们叫我野玫瑰 but my name was elisa day 但我的名字是Elisa Day why they call me it i do not know 我不知道他们为什么这样叫我 for my name was elisa day 因为我的名字是 Elisa Day from the first

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Bamboo's tough reputation is such that another bamboo specialist was known by the Chinese as the iron-eating animal. The giant panda is famous for its exclusive diet. Giant pandas are thought to have originated in Southwest China millions of years ag

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力:文化博览2008年

商务报盘口说:wild speculation 漫天要价中英互译We're willing to make you a firm offer at this price. 我们愿意以此价格为你报实盘。 We can offer you a quotation based upon the international market. 我们可以按国际市场

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