Taiwan's National Palace Museum has been a place of wonder since it was built. Inside, it houses the treasure of the Chinese emperors. This collection of more than 600,000 objects is said to be the most important in Chinese history. Now, National Geo

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 常春藤生活英语

You mean someone is stealing your fruit? Benny asked. Seymour actually smiled. No, nothing like that. He cleared his throat. The fact is, someone is stealing our antiques not the furniture, but smaller things like my stamp collection and some old fam

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Baltimore police say their investigation into the death of the young black man arrested earlier this month has shown a police van made an additional stop while transporting him. At one of the stops, Freddie Gray was placed in leg cuffs because police

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雅虎新闻:为什么欧洲超市里的鸡蛋只放在普通货架上,而美国的鸡蛋则需要放在冷藏区? 鸡蛋为什么要冷藏 Yahoo.com: Why is it that European eggs are stored on supermarket shelves while American eggs chill in t

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A young businessman had just started his own firm. He rented a beautiful office and had it furnished with antiques. Sitting there, he saw a man come in to the outer office. Wishing to appear the hot s

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Detroit Art Institute at Center of Bankruptcy Debate在破产边缘的底特律艺术学院 底特律底特律艺术博物馆,又名DIA,拥有着价值连城的绘画、雕塑,以及来自世界各地的文物。 Inside its massive halls are more

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AMERICAN MOSAIC -August 2, 2002: Songs by Norah Jones / Question About the Library of Congress / Air Conditioner Turns 100 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magazine in Special Englis

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 06 December 2006 Ndiaye Diop lifts her daughter over trash in Pikine, 17 Oct 2006 In the developing world's fast-growing cities, formal systems for managing garbage are sometimes insufficient. In Senegal's capital, Dakar, tras

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At least seven million Americans identify themselves as belonging to more than one race, and interest is rapidly growing in issues of multi-racial identity. In his new book, Mixed, writer and artist Kip Fulbeck presents a collection of portraits cele

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AS IT IS 2015-06-04 Obama Signs Law Ending NSA Collection of Phone Records 奥巴马签署法律条文结束NSA收集电话记录行为 President Barack Obama has signed a bill to reform and restart the collection of Americans telephone records. The

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Members of the wealthy Rockefeller family of New York helped establish the Museum of Modern Art and revive the old Cloisters medieval museum, both in New York City. The Rockefellers contributed to the restoration of Versailles Palace in France. And t

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: For centuries, scientists and amateur botanists scoured the country to document and preserve plant species. Their findings were prized like fine art. Now there's a new effort to digitize these collections, a treasure trove for re

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A proverb is much matter decocted into few words. —Fuller 谚语就是许多事实熬成的少许几个字。 ——富勒(英国) Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. —Cervant

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Andrea: Theres nothing quite like going out for a walk in the park. Sun Chen: 我同意。在公园漫步 有鸟、有蜜蜂、还有树. Andrea: So why not take a walk in Greenwich Park? Hello Im Andrea. Sun Chen: 还有我,孙晨。在今天的都市

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今天我们要学的词是staple。 Staple, 做为名词,指必不可少的东西。 Rice is a staple in the region, 米饭是这个地区居民的主食。 Hot dogs are a staple for barbecue parties in the summer, 热狗是夏天烧烤餐会不可缺

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今天我们要学的词是hotbed。 Hotbed温床。这次猪流感的爆发,让微型博客网站Twitter成了辩论焦点。 Some critics say Twitter has become a hotbed for unnecessary hype and misinformation about the swine flu outbreak, 一些持

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You're the star of my dreams My personal sunbeam My heart is your home I'm never alone Sometimes I'm in the dream too Just looking at you We shout and we play We're finding our way We're not in a hurry Let's take a little time We'll just stay younger

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The Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois has amassed one of the largest collections of Obama-related Africa artwork in the world Three years ago, the Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwest

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Yang Li: 眼下伦敦正在举行一个同中国历史文化相关的展览,故宫收藏的一批珍贵皇袍亮相于维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆。大家好我是杨莉,欢迎收听《都市掠影》。For the first time in Europe, the

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Florida in the summer is a slow, hot drowning. That's the way Lauren Groff describes the state in her new collection of short stories. In another part of the book, she calls Florida a damp, dense tangle, an Eden of dangerous things

发表于:2019-03-01 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台6月