[00:02.71]Chemist Leo Baekeland [00:05.67]In the opening scene of The Graduate, [00:08.95]Benjamin (played by a young Dustin Hoffman) [00:12.23]is awkwardly working an affluent Southern California crowd [00:15.73]at a graduation party arranged for hi

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(149) / 评论(0) 分类 英语专业晨读美文

情景对话: Does he really live up there? I took basic astronomy and there was no mention of life, or children, on any other planets. Unless it's true that he came from a star, but that seems improbable. 知识点讲解: There was no mention of

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(326) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(一)月

情景对话: I am so lucky. I thought I'd never find anyone who wanted to hear my story. Then you came along. Just in time. 知识点讲解: I thought I'd never find anyone who... 我以为我永远找不到一个人 【例句一】 I thought I'

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 每天三分钟学英语

情景对话: Let's look for a well. 我们去找一口井吧。 We found a well at daybreak. 我们在黎明时分找到了一口井。 知识点笔记: 1、Daybreak 黎明 【例句】 We need to get there before daybreak if you want to get fro

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: Yesterday was Earth Day, with celebrations around the globe. Hari Sreenivasan talked recently to a geologist who is also the host of a new film. And he's traveled the globe looking for ways human ingenuity has solved t

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈环境系列

Sky Watchers Prepare For the 'Super Bowl' of Moons This is What's Trending Today. 这里是《今日热点》节目。 The moon is providing a rare triple treat this week. 本周,月亮将为人们演绎一次罕见的三部曲。 On Wednesday, muc

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(二)月

今后,大家对贝克汉姆的称呼就不光是球星或者型男了,他多了一项头衔夜店老板。 David Beckham is a soccer star by trade, but apparently he also wants to add restaurant owner to his resume. He allegedly hopes to open a

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Johann-Dietrich Woerner, who became the director general of the European Space Agency last July, believes that human beings will eventually live and work on the Moon. His vision of a lunar settlement includes various space-faring nations, all living

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

According to the Daily Telegraph of October 9, water ice and organic molecules that help to form the basis of life have been discovered on a second asteroid, called 65 Cybele, by astronomers。 The finding was reported at a meeting of planetary scien

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LOS ANGELES, April 8 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has discovered a rare asteroid that traces out a horseshoe shape relative to Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Friday. Unlike most near-Earth asteroid

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Everyday Grammar: In, On, and At 日常语法:In,On和At的用法 When English speakers talk about time and place, there are three little words that often come up: in, on, and at. These common words are prepositions that show a relationship between t

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(四)月

A 4K restoration of the classic film Yellow Earth premiered this week in Beijing. The film marks China's first success in applying the technology of 4K restoration to classic films. Sun Xianghui is the head of the China Film Archive, which is behind

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 2018CRI中国国际广播电台

This is the 10th year that China has participated in the Earth Hour campaign. At 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, the lights were turned off at several landmark buildings to help raise awareness about energy conservation and environmental sustainability.

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Science and Technolgy 科技 Mars exploration 火星探测 How to land a Mini on Mars 迷你漫游车如何登陆火星 The biggest and fanciest Mars rover so far will soon blast off from Florida 迄今为止最大和最新奇的火星探测器即将于

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

Climate change is the great environmental challenge facing the world today. But maybe we should start calling it climates change. Because scientists whove looked to glaciers to study the history of climate on Earth have found that the Northern and S

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 60秒科学

美国宇航局正在筹划一个名为百年星航的项目,计划在时机成熟时将载人航天器发送至火星,并让宇航员在那里定居,最终将火星拓展为人类的另一个领地。据悉,美国宇航局埃姆斯研究中心

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SANTIAGO, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- A strong earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale rocked Araucania region, south of Chile, on Sunday. There were no reports of casualties. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake occurred at 5:

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LOS ANGELES, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Many Hobbit fans were excited or worried when Peter Jackson announced Monday that he will stretch the originally planned two-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy-adventure The Hobbit into a trilogy, some

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A little 和 a bit这两个短语都可以表示少量,有一点儿的意思,在使用中常常容易混淆。接下来我们就一起看看这两个短语应该如何使用吧~1.首先,a little 和 a bit都可表示一点儿,少量,可作状

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TEHRAN, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Iran puts the Rasad (surveillance) satellite in the orbit on Wednesday, the state IRIB TV website reported. The Rasad satellite will render images to the country, said the report. All the procedure of designing, constructi

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻