Using smaller plates helps stop people overeating. Many people use a large plate and they fill it with food. This means they eat too much. Cambridge University says if people use smaller plates, they will eat less. Americans could cut their calories

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语生活新闻

Xiaomi becomes third-largest smartphone maker 小米成为第三大智能手机厂商 A four-year-old Chinese tech company has become the world's third-largest smartphone maker, behind Samsung and Apple. The company is called Xiaomi Inc. It has also

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 英语科技新闻

Will the reader please to cast his eye over the following verses , and see if he can discover anything harmful in them? Conductor, when you receive a fare,Punch in the presence of the passenjare! A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,A buff trip sl

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(205) / 评论(0) 分类 马克吐温最佳短篇小说

Success,WilferdA.Peterson论成功 There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do. Success is not confi

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Our story today is called The Line of Least Resistance. It was written by It was written by Edith Wharton. Here is Larry West with the story. Mr. Mindon returned home for lunch. His wife Millicent was not at home. The servants did not know where she

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 美国故事

一个英语单词可分为三部分:前缀(prefix)词根(root)后缀(suffix)。位于词根前面的部分就是前缀。前缀,可以改变单词的意思。 ab- ,abs- 相反,离开,变坏 abroad = ab + road(路) 启程,离

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(三)月

Maria: So Alex, you're from Australia. What's the economical situation there at the moment? Alex: We've actually been very, very lucky in the last couple of years throughout the global financial crisis. We've been, we had a very strong, very positive

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

People who sit down a lot must exercise for one hour a day to live longer. Sitting down a lot makes our life shorter. It is like smoking or being overweight. Sitting for eight hours increases the risk of dying early by 60 per cent. But, one hour's ex

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语生活新闻

Aging in European Countries We have to realise how old, how very old, we are. Nations are classified as

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英文阅读

Our MPs and judges all got a 1.9% pay increase at the end of this year. It was also back-dated to July 1st. This means the pay increase should have started July 1st so they get that extra increase in one big payment. For most back-bench MPs that one-

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

by Jason Marshall In the last article, we applied our knowledge of fractions to begin making sense of percentages, and we used this new tool to quickly and easily calculate how much to tip at restaurantsall in our heads! Today, were continuing our ex

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(156) / 评论(0) 分类 数学英语

Vegans have substantially lower death rates than meat-eaters, a major study has found. The study has been published in the JAMA Internal Medicine Journal and reignites debate around increasingly popular vegan diets amid conflicting medical advice and

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Diseases can spread quickly. Someone with a cold infects a few casual contacts, who in turn infect others. Ideas can also spread that way, along so-called random networks. But Damon Centola at MIT says that ideas and beliefs spread faster and more ef

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(九)月

A Ten-Cent Idea When young F. W. Woolworth was a store clerk, he tried to convince his boss to have a ten-cent sale to reduce inventory. The boss agreed, and the idea was a resounding success. This inspired Woolworth to open his own store and price i

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

Male teachers often use their erotic capital when dealing with female members of staff, according to the head of a leading prep school. 一所一流预备学校的校长表示,男老师跟女同事打交道时经常运用自己的魅力资本。 Al

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

A surge in industrial activity has pushed up Chinas annual economic growth rate to 6.9 per cent in the first quarter, according to government statistics released on Monday, 周一发布的中国政府统计数据显示,工业活动的急剧攀升,将

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

独立分词(3) 一、with+名词(短语)+分词结构 最近我看到一篇文章,题目是手机打破社会禁忌(Mobile phones breaks social taboos),讲的是手机对人们生活礼仪的改变起到了不好的作用。比如说到准

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 托福英语

One topic that never goes away is prices. Its not surprising really. Prices affect us all. The news recently has been about rising prices. But then I suppose thats always been the news. Prices have been rising a lot though. Especially food. I reckon

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(176) / 评论(0) 分类 纯正英语一分钟

Human demands on natural resources have doubled in under 50 years and are now outstripping(超过) what the Earth can provide by more than half, a new report has warned. And humanity carries on(继续) as it is in use of resources, globally i

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Chinese business sentiment fell sharply in July, suggesting that recent dramatic falls in company share prices had severely dented optimism. 7月份,中国企业信心显著降低,说明近期公司股价大幅下跌严重削弱了企业的乐观情

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻