Topics: John Audubon and the Audubon Society; Famous Songs: On Top of Old Smokey; sign versus signal; figure out versus find out; to beat a dead horse Words: ornithologist to sketch naturalist to illustrate bird-banding taxidermy to become extinct to

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

今天我们要学的词是 rekindle. rekindle 的意思是重燃,重新喚起。U.S. President Donald Trump recently rekindled his criticism of California's wildfire prevention steps. 美国总统特朗普最近再度提起他对加利福尼亚州野

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

alter 改变 alternate 交替 amend 修改 degrade 使屈辱 dilute 稀释 diverse 多样的 evaporate 蒸发 evolution 进化 extinct 灭绝的 flexible 灵活的 fluctuate 波动 fluid 流食 highlight 突出 inclination 倾向 infest 成群出现 intensify 加强 manufacture 制造 med

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The world's largest water lilies are blooming in a tropical greenhouse at London's Kew Gardens. The world's smallest known water lily (Nymphaea thermarum), extinct in its native central African habitat, is thriving in a British botanical garden. Scie

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(五)月

Report: Many Species Risk Extinction 报告显示许多物种面临灭绝的风险 While progress has been made to preserve endangered animal, plant and other species, a new report said successes are being overshadowed by declines. The International

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Welcome to Wednesday. This is CNN Student News. We're going to get things started today with different forms of extreme wheather. First up, fire. This one in California has burn more than 30,000 acres, but fire fighters have around 60 percent contain

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The plains zebra is a close relative of the quagga, extinct since 1883. But according to members of the Quagga Project in Cape Town, South Africa. The foal seen running with its herd of plains zebras is a quagga. His name's Harley and he was born in

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Martha Was The Last Passenger Pigeon Before the 1900s, passenger pigeons made up about 40 percent of the total bird population in the US. These birds migrated in massive colonies, and there were so many of them that they could actually black out the

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A species of frog has been found alive on a farm in Australia more than 30 years after it was thought to have become extinct. Environment officials have said a thriving population of yellow-spotted bell frogs has been found in a remote creek in New S

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A proposed breeding program for the critically endangered Siamese crocodile received a significant boost this month with the news that 35 crocodiles at a wildlife rescue center in Cambodia are purebred Siamese. Robert Carmichael | Phnom Penh 20 Nove

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Dinosaur Descendants Shrank to Survive Not all dinosaurs went extinct. Some are alive today in the form of birds. A new study finds that shrinking helped these birds continue to thrive and evolve. If we really want to know how birds came about, then

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-If I bring a bone over, we can superimpose these two. It's got one big muscle attachment right here and the dinosaurs have a muscle scar just like this. It appears in the first bipedal dinosaurs, this scar on the outside of the fibula and it is not

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Darren, I do love these museum collections when you come behind the scenes and you suddenly feel that you are surrounded by treasures. And it's amazing to think that there are new discoveries to be made in here as well. That's right in a way. There a

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Back in Los Angeles, last-minute preparations are under way to get the dinosaurs ready for the public. It's only now that you get a sense of just how many people have been involved in creating this exhibition, from the artists to the designers, to th

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Downtown L.A., the ultimate modern American city, but Los Angeles skyscrapers are built over the graves of thousands of extinct Ice Age beasts. Today all we have are memorials to these vanished animals, but imagine if they had survived into the prese

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 23 October 2007 Australian researchers are teaming up with zoos and wildlife parks around the world in a bid to save the Tasmanian devil. It is the largest carnivorous marsupial and is being devastated by a mysterious facial tum

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From the first weekend in May until July, hunters in New Zealand are allowed to shoot ducks for sport. This is called the duck shooting season. Hunters have to get a licence and can kill only a limited number of ducks each day. There are only three t

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Enam: Oh, Katia, you're from Mexico right? Katia: Right. Enam: I want to know about the Mexico City? Can you tell me about it? How is Mexico City in terms of real estate, landscape? Katia: Well, Mexico City is one of the biggest cities in the world a

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Voice 1 Hello. Im Marina Santee. Voice 2 And Im Ruby Jones. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Welcome to our list

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 环球英语 Spotlight

今天我们要学的词是 reappear. To reappear 意思是重新出现。Russian President Vladimir Putin reappeared in public after a 10-day absence, showing no signs of visible ill-health. 俄罗斯总统普京十天没有露面后,第一次重新

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