The Mysterious Recluse Garbo -- divine, mysterious, 1) reclusive. One of the most famous faces of the 20th century. On screen she was 2) raw sexuality, off screen her affairs with men and women 3) cap

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(179) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

Marathon running(马拉松赛跑) NB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript Dan: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. Im Dan Walker Smith and in todays programme Im joined by Nuala OSullivan. Nuala: Hi Dan. Dan:

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They went up in flames, thousands of original works by some of the world's greatest thinkers, not a single scroll survived. Today, 1600 years after the destruction of the great library, Alexandria has built a new library, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Its not every day we get a chance to time travel. Other than into the future at the rate of one second per second. But astronomers say theyve done a li

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香格里拉旅游景点英语介绍 In the year 1893, James Hilton described an eternally peaceful and quiet place among mountains in the East Shangri-La in one of his novels for the first time. In the novel Lost Horizon, an English diplomat Conway

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Whatever her mood, from sultry blues ballads to fiery jazz classics, Lena Horne was adored by audiences the world over, especially when she delivered her signature song, Stormy Weather. Lena was born the great-granddaughter of a freed slave in Brookl

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Broadway Celebrates Legendary Cotton Club 百老汇庆祝传奇的棉花俱乐部 NEW YORK From the early 1920s to 1940, Harlems Cotton Club was the showplace for African-American performers in New York. 纽约从20世纪20年代早期到20世纪40年代

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(As we enter the month of June, we find ourselves already in the middle of the year. However, according to the Chinese lunar calendar, the fifth month just begins and the Chinese people are preparing to celebrate another traditional festiva

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BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhuanet) -- In the not so distant future, a dark brooding figure could be looking over Shanghai's World Financial Center, ever vigilant, to protect the people. But this masked hero won't be Batman; he won't even be American, he wi

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Legendary Hollywood actor Tony Curtis died on Wednesday night. He was 85. The veteran star, who was best known for his role in Some Like It Hot, died of cardiac arrest(心搏停止) at his Las Vegas home, the Los

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DAEGU, South Korea, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- I have nothing to say right now. I need some time. This was Bolt's response on Sunday night after a sensational disqualification from the men's 100m final for a false start at the Daegu World Championships. The

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NEW DELHI, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Legendary Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, who gained widespread international acclaim due to his association with The Beatles, passed away at a hospital in San Diego in the U.S. state of California Wednesday (

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Bollywood bids adieu to legendary filmmaker NEW DELHI, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- India's film industry, Bollywood, Monday bid adieu to its legendary filmmaker Yash Raj Chopra who died of dengue in Mumbai Sunday at the age of 80. All the big names of the fi

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

By Robert Berger Jerusalem 04 January 2007 Teddy Kollek, a former Jerusalem mayor, who led one of the world's most complicated cities for nearly three decades, has been laid to rest after his death this week at the age of 95. As Robert Berger report

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tier on tier...On all this, the earth had been piled...and was thickly planted with trees of every kind that, by their great size and other charm, gave pleasure to the beholder...The water machines(raised) the water in great abundance from the river,

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上周,瑞典皇家科学院宣布将诺贝尔文学奖授予鲍勃?迪伦。消息一出,网友们都炸开了锅,有人为又一次陪跑的村上春树惋惜,也有人忙着安利迪伦的经典作品,总之整个朋友圈都不淡定了。

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Maverick actor-director Jiang Wen continues to jab at Chinese history with a satire about the fallout of an over-the-top beauty contest in '20s Shanghai. 不按常理出牌的导演,同时也是演员的姜文,用20世纪20年代上海言过其实的

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The Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for Chinese people all over the world to come together, eat special cakes and gaze at the full moon. 中秋节是一个全世界的华人和家人聚在一起吃月饼、赏月亮的节日。 Though a happy occasion,

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A legendary giant Kua Fu,overrating his own abilities,wanted to catch up with the sun.He followed the sun to its setting place at a valley far away and became very thirsty.Badly needing a drink of water,he went to the Yellow River and the R

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SANTIAGO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Qatari auto racer Prince Nasser Al Attiyah won Day 6 of the legendary Dakar Rally Thursday, behind the wheel of a Buggy. Al Attiyah won the sixth stage of the rugged off-road race, between the Chilean cities of Arica and

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