WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Circus By Marilyn Rice Christiano Broadcast: Sunday, November 21, 2004 Now the VOA Special English Program -- Words and Their Stories. Circus is a word with a long interestin

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(308) / 评论(0) 分类 WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

我的小侄女在学钢琴,她妈妈对她要求严格,每天练琴5个小时,弹不完不能出去和朋友玩儿。在钢琴比赛中,侄女得了第二名,要说已经是很厉害了,可是却被她妈妈训了一顿,因为没拿冠军

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万圣节就快要到了,哈皮和毛拉的万圣节,他们是怎么过的呢,穿着奇异的服装,去邻居家里要糖果,是不是很有趣呢? Harp: So, Halloween is celebrated on October thirty first (31st). Always the same day rega

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The History of Mother's Day The earliest Mother's Day celebrations are traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea 1 , the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600's, England

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1When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem. 2Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates began to build the altar

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Medieval Christmas was a weird mixture of Christianity and Pagan customs. Along with the boar's head no Christmas feast was complete without the giant Yule Log. If you've ever enjoyed a slice of choco

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Happy Father's Day! Father's Day is a fairly new celebration in the British calendar compared with Mother's Day, which has been a very popular and well celebrated festival in the UK for a very long time. The origins of the celebration are American a

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ChopinThe Beautiful Soul of Music 钢琴诗人肖邦 Can Frederic Chopin, who wrote no symphonies, no operas, and no string quartets, who wrote only for the piano, be considered one of the greatest classical composers of all time? Instrument makers a

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本文介绍万圣夜的来源和历史。 Ancient Origins of HalloweenHalloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingd

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当我和丈夫在我们最喜欢的饭馆庆祝结婚38周年纪念日时,那个弹钢琴的莱尼过来问道:你们是怎么过来的? 我知道,对于这个问题无法简简单单地来回答。但随着周末一天天的临近,我开始

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-The meaning of many different customs observed during Easter Sunday have been buried with time. Their origins lie in pre-Christian religions and Christianity. All in some way or another are a salute to spring, marking re-birth. The white Easter lily

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Grinning cheekily in his father's arms, Prince George can't resist monkeying around in this previously unseen photograph issued to mark his second birthday tomorrow. 明天就是乔治小王子的2周岁生日啦!在一张首次公布的照片中,乔

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Heavy rain's putting parts of the Gulf Coast under water, the flash flooding in Mobile, Alabama brought on by a slow moving spring storm system. It left property damage and downed trees from Texas all the way to Alabama. A charter bus rolled over on

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The great painter was asked, one day to paint a picture of Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea. A little while after the picture had been commenced,a hitch arose over the fee,and Hogarth found that he would have to complete the commission for about half

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Millions of people around the world celebrated Earth Day Friday by pledging to commit personal acts of green to improve the environment(环境). This is the 41st anniversary of the first Earth Day, observed in the United States in the aftermath of a

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圣诞节马上就来啦,铃儿响叮当的熟悉旋律是不是钻入耳朵,新东方在线托福网为大家托福口语阅读材料:关于圣诞节的英文介绍,包括圣诞节的由来,圣诞树的传说,圣诞节的节日风俗,圣

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2000年普通高等学校春季招生考试(北京、安徽卷)英语试题答案及评分标准(NMET 2000) I,II,III(key to 1-75) 1.D 2. A 3. B 4.C 5. A 6. C 7. C 8. D 9. A 10. C 11. B 12. A 13.

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Nothing suffocates you more than the passing of everyday human events Isolation is the oxygen mask you make your children breath into survive But I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist But I'm not a slave to world that doesn't give a shit And wh

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重点词汇 colonist n. 殖民者;殖民地居民;移民 recognition n. 识别;承认,认出;重视;赞誉;公认 utensil n. 用具,器皿 1. The first Thanksgiving was actually a three-day celebration. 2. It's unclear if colonists a

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