TEXT I first heard this story a few years ago from a girl I had met in New York's Greenwich Village. Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few year, to be told anew in one form or another. However, I still

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 大学英语精读第一册

The English Like Tea Foreigners may scoff 1 , marketing men may try to seduce with alternatives, but the English still carry on doggedly 2 in their devotion to what they consider to be one of the few

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If you are walking through New Yorks Central Park on a fine summer day, you might come across a group of children enthusiastically listening to a story. The storyteller will be sitting beside a statue of a kindly looking man holding an open book. Al

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The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is known as Qi Xi Jie or 七夕节, a traditional holiday that has been recently called China's Valentine's Day. The 2,000-plus-year-old holiday marks the star-crossed love between a cow herd

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Today marks the Qixi Festival in China, which is otherwise known as Chinese Valentines. CRI's Li Dong on how the 7th day of the 7th lunar month on the Chinese calendar is viewed today. Today, August 13, is Qixi Festival. According to a Chinese folk l

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Lesson-9 1. They spent many years ______ for oil in this small island . A. exploring B. exploding C. exposing D. exploiting explore 探索,研究 lore 知识文化, 学问 folklore 民俗学,民间

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Callum: Hello and welcome to Talk about English. Today we have the second in our series on culture, Who on Earth are we? In this programme presenter Marc Beeby tries to answer the difficult question: what is culture? Heres Mark. Marc:Culture is a di

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I first heard this story a few years ago from a girl I had met in New York's Greenwich Village. Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few years, to be told a new in one form or another. However, I still li

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Hallowe'en is a popular festival in many countries all over the world, and every year it seems to get bigger. It's getting dark earlier and it's starting to get cold. Christmas is still a long way away. We need something to cheer us up and take our m

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We spend so much of our lives with our parents and yet most of it is devoted to routine and commonplace things. 我们大多数时间都与父母生活在一起,但是这些时间常被琐事虚度掉了。 Time is short and unfortunately we are al

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-Everyone loves a good ghost story. The gruesome, the spiritual and the supernatural arouse an instinctive curiosity in all of us. In the west, ghostly fervor reaches a peak with Halloween on October 31. In Thailand, the spirit-world comes closest to

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BBC Learning English 6 Minute English Cryptozoology Callum: Hello Im Callum Robertson and with me today for 6 Minute English is Jackie Dalton hello Jackie. Jackie: Hello Callum. Callum: Now in the programme today were going to be talking about myster

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Life holds many frustrations(挫折) for left-handed people from the everyday items designed for right-handers to folklore(民间传说) saying they are in league with the devil. So perhaps it is the result of dealing with such adversity(逆境)

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20 Facts About Humans You Probably Didnt Know 20个人类真相,你知道吗? We can be curious about existing forms of life but still do not know much about ourselves. These are twenty facts about humans you might have never heard of. 我们可能

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Mexico's Rafael Marquez struck 12 minutes from time to deny hosts South Africa a winning start to the World Cup at Soccer City in Johannesburg(约翰内斯堡). Marquez controlled Andres Guardado's cross at the back post and rifled past Bafana Ba

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Nanchang Street is located in Wuxi City, East China's Jiangsu Province. It's a core scenic spot of the city, featuring the Qing Ming Bridge Historic and Cultural Street District. Now our reporter shows you a different taste of it, combining ancient a

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Little Door Gods, an animation film about Chinese celestial beings, will be screened across the nation on New Year's Day next year. 一部关于中国神仙的动画电影--《小门神》,将会于明年新年在全国上映播放 The film by Ligh

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Are you afraid of black cats? Would you open an umbrella indoors? And how do you feel about the number 13? 你会害怕黑猫吗?你会在室内开伞吗?你对 13 这个数字有什么想法? Whether or not you believe in them, you're probably

发表于:2019-03-03 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 欧美人文风情

The unconscious mind 潜意识 Hidden depths 藏匿在深处 Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behaviour. By Leonard Mlodinow. 《潜意识:你的潜意识如何支配你的行为》;伦纳德 蒙洛迪诺著; ASK someone to name

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

什么是GRE阅读难句呢?如何应对GRE阅读理解中的长难句呢?为了帮助大家更好的掌握GRE阅读理解中的难句,下面给大家整理一些杨鹏的GRE阅读难句,希望能够对您的GRE考试有所帮助。 下面就是小

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