President Obama is expected to speak shortly about suspicious packages out of Yemen that have prompted international security alerts. The packages were found at an airport north of London and a cargo side in Dubai. Sweeps were conducted at airports i

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

The flood of women into the job market boosted economic growth and changed U.S. society in many ways. Many in-home jobs that used to be done primarily by women ranging from family shopping to preparing meals to doing voluntary work still need to be d

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力小短文走遍全世界

All-Suitable Investment Wisdom鱼和熊掌兼顾的投资智慧Even the experts can't agree whether rising or falling prices lie in our future. 即便是专家也对物价到底是涨还是跌的看法不一。 That leaves investors in a quandary how

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Topics: The American Indian Movement of the 1970s; Famous Buildings-The Sears Tower; inception versus conception versus to beget; to get back; cash on the barrelhead Words: to relocate reservation Civil Rights Movement specialized to occupy demand to

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

beget, [bi'get] vt (书面语)招致,产生,引起=produce 【例】Like begets like 有其父必有其子。 Hate begets hate 怨怨相报。 【记】be成为,get得到-招致

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(40) / 评论(0) 分类 不择手段背单词

Winston was writing in his diary: It was three years ago. It was on a dark evening, in a narrow side-street near one of the big railway stations. She was standing near a doorway in the wall, under a street lamp that hardly gave any light. She had a y

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(308) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

I shall begin at the beginning, said the D.H.C. and the more zealous students recorded his intention in their notebooks: Begin at the beginning. 我从头说一说主任说,积极的学生把他的意思记进了笔记本:从头说一说。 These

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 美丽新世界

I 'll break it for him,said I,now flying into a passion again at this unaccountable farrago of the landlord's. It's broke a'ready,said he. Broke,said IBROKE,do you mean? Sartain,and that's the very reason he can not sell it,I guess. Landlord,said I,g

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记

William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice, O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear, From hill to hill it seems to pass, At on

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barbed adj.有倒钩的,讽剌的 barbarous adj.野蛮的,残暴的 barbarity n.残忍,残暴 barbecue n.烤肉架,烤肉 barge n.平底货船,驳船 bark v.狗吠,n 树皮 barn n.谷仓 barometer n.气压

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 GRE英语

Economics focus经济聚焦 Degrees of democracy 民主的程度 More education does not necessarily lead to greater enthusiasm for representative politics 受教育程度越高并不一定对代表制政治产生更大的热情 Jun 23rd 2011 | from

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His own remote ancestor, King Loren of the Rock, 他的远祖凯岩王罗伦, had tried to stand against the fire when he joined with King Mern of the Reach to oppose the Targaryen conquest. 曾与河湾王孟恩联军抵抗坦格利安的征服。

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You Are What You Do by Mayling Soong If the past has taught us anything, it is that every cause brings effect every action has a consequence1). This thought, in my opinion, is the moral foundation of the universe; it applies equally in this world an

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(304) / 评论(0) 分类 摘取梦想的启蒙星

Table,ice,duck,flag 这些简单的英语单词,它们的名词意义就算对初学英语者来说也一定是小菜一碟,但老外经常把它们当做动词用,它们的动词意义和用法你知道吗? 1.table:名词,桌子;当

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(229) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

In late February, a mainland tourist caused a disturbance on a Hong Kong subway. The reason? Eating in public. 今年二月底,一位大陆游客在香港地铁里引发一场风波。事发原因便是在公共场所进食。 In Hong Kong it is il

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

May be not, taking out a stick and whittling a toothpick, but I rayther guess you'll be done brown if that ere harpooneer hears you a slanderin' his head. 你也许不是,他掏出一根火柴棒,把它削成一支牙签,不过,我却认为,如果那个

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(37) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记

Nor, at the time, had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, 而且,当时他那偏热症的心里可没有忘记: that all the anguish of that then present suffering was but the direct issue of a former woe; 现下的苦痛都是直接来自先前

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(38) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记

as I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, woven almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as I snuffed up that uncontaminated

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记

As ashore, the ladies often cause the most terrible duels among their rival admirers; just so with the whales, who sometimes come to deadly battle, and all for love. They fence with their long lower jaws, sometimes locking them together, and so striv

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记

Now, the grand distinction drawn between officer and man at sea, is this-the first lives aft, the last forward. 海上的船上头目和一般水手的主要区别既然是这样...头目住船尾,水手住船头。 Hence, in whale-ships and merchant

发表于:2019-03-10 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记