Joining us now from the Russell Rotunda in the Senate office building is Democratic Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut. Good morning, senator. Good morning and Merry Chrismas Maggie. Same to you. I want to make sure that everybody understands that whi

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(158) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2009年(十二)月

The prospect of this momentous encounter between Holmes and Freud was quickly snapped up by Universal Studios, with a screenplay, adapted by Meyer, featuring Nicol Williamson and Robert Duvall as Holmes and Watson, together with Alan Arkin as Sigmund

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 如何成为福尔摩斯

在英语中某些词有两种或两种以上的形容词形式,它们词形相近,但词义不同,容易用错,下面笔者对这类形容词做一总结。 1)historic: famous in history, 历史上著名的 associated with past times 与过去

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模仿文本:Deep underground here on the Swiss-French border, a momentous scientific discovery earlier this year had tabloid headline writers for claiming the discovery of the God particle in the subatomic shrapnel from a man-made Big Bang. But wa

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They began by analyzing the strain of farmed wheat that goes into our food and extracting its DNA. They did the same to several varieties of wild wheat. Then they compared their genetic makeup . And w

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 人、艺术、世界

刚刚过去的新四级考试,题型分为写作、快速阅读、听力、基本阅读、选词填空、完型填空和汉译英。就我个人而言,写作、听力和阅读(快速阅读和基础阅读)是重点,因此考生对于这三部分的得分多少,将直接决定着其考试分数的高低。 下面就让我们依次来解析一下。 一、写作

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Losing your first tooth is a momentous moment for any child. 对每个孩子来说,第一颗牙的掉落都是一个特别重大的时刻。 And one little girl isn't going to forget the occasion in a hurry - she had it pulled out by drone. 今天就

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Hilcorp, a private oil and natural gas exploration and production company based in Texas, is in the news for its uNPRecedented generosity towards employees. To celebrate an excellent year, CEO Jeff Hildebrand gave the entire company staff huge bonuse

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We all need a break at one point or another, but perhaps you need one NOW. You may say that you are absolutely too busy to take a break or there is no way that you can let go right at the moment. These are both signs that you need a break TODAY。 谁都

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(188) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

(1)see/witness用法:无生命(时间、地点或事物)成分作主语。 经济年均增长速度达到 9.7%。(0303)China's economy has witnessed a strong/an impressive growth rate of 9.7%. 本公司成立于1988年。(0409)1988

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口译

But if I was puzzled and disconcerted, I was not unimpressed. 但是即使说思特里克兰德的画当时使我感到困惑莫解,却不能说这些画没有触动我。 Even I, in my colossal ignorance, could not but feel that here, trying to ex

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But here we are. I am 51 years old, like I told you, and mind-numbing acronyms notwithstanding, 然后来到了现在,我之前告诉你,我今年51岁,而我却还在研究那些荒谬的缩写含义, I just want to tell you if there has bee

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Remember that old cigarette ad that proclaimed: Youve come a long way, baby? It was introduced in 1968 by Virginia Slims, which linked smoking with female empowerment and equality. When we look closely at women in the business world, however, we may

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All this was hypothetically interesting until 1973, when an odd occurrence made it suddenly momentous: 这一切都很有意思,但都是假设的。直到1973年,一件怪事发生了,突然之间那个假设变得很有意义: water in Yell

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books and arts 文艺 book review 书评 New fiction 新小说 Tudor prose 都铎王朝那些事儿 Bring Up the Bodies.By Hilary Mantel. 《死尸示众》拉里曼特尔著。 HILARY MANTEL'S Man Booker prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall, was a momento

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The U.S. House of Representatives late Monday passed a bill to raise the country's debt ceiling in exchange for cuts in government spending - one day ahead of a potential default on America's $14.3 trillion national debt. The action now shifts to the

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Hanging over this debate about the pros and cons of the deal is the question of what overturning it would do to the health of Britains democracy. 围绕该协议利弊的辩论一直悬而未决的问题是,推翻该协议将对英国民主的健康产

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(136) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Our connection to reality is never just perception. 而我们与现实的联系从不会只是感知 It's always, as Karl Popper put it, theory-laden. 而是如卡尔波普尔所说,充满着理论假设 Scientific knowledge isn't derived from anyt

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HARI SREENIVASAN: Should they stay or should they go? That's the question facing British voters today as they decide their place in Europe. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant has the story from London. MALCOLM BRABANT: The signs went up and doors

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

This ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in the matter of whales; he followed these fish for the fun of it; 他这种愚昧无知的无畏精神,使他有点把捕鲸当成一件儿戏;他只是为了好玩才去追击这

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