A humble wooden deckchair recovered from the doomed Titanic has sold for ?100,350 at auction. 上周举行的一场拍卖会上,泰坦尼克号上的一张沙滩椅以以100350(约合93.1万元人民币)英镑的高价成交。 The Nantucket wo

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(193) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

EIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- All the 2,103 cultural units including theaters and art troupes previously sponsored by governments of different levels in China have been restructured under market-oriented cultural reform. This was disclosed by Minister

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Apple will on Tuesday be hit with Europes largest tax penalty after Brussels ruled that the company received illegal state aid from Ireland. 苹果(Apple)将在周二接到欧洲最大的税收罚单,此前布鲁塞尔裁定该公司得到了爱尔兰

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The rules of etiquette have been tossed out of the window yet again as people are being asked to stand on both sides of escalators at Holborn station. 在霍尔本地铁站,礼仪的规矩再遭抛弃,人们又可以站在扶梯两边了。 One o

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

BAGHDAD, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday that members of al-Qaida militant group have crossed border to Syria to carry out terrorist attacks. Yes indeed, we have solid information and intelligence that members o

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1. President Bush is again calling for a ceasefire to be honored in the former Soviet Republic. But there are reports that 100 Russian tanks are moving even deeper into Georgia. Meantime, the Pentagon says there isn't any need for US fighting forces

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1. A 16-year-old California girl, who was feared lost at sea while sailing solo around the world, has been found in the Indian Ocean. Rescue boats are now on the rescue of Abby Sunderland. Sunderland radioed that her boat was knocked down repeatedly

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Ubers costly battle for the Chinese ride-sharing market helped drive losses of $1.3bn during the first half of 2016, making the San Francisco-based company one of the most deeply lossmaking in Silicon Valley. 优步(Uber)为争夺中国叫车市场而进

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四级考试没有几天了,四级翻译对我们来说还是一个难题,下面就跟小编一起来看看四级翻译中的定语翻译处理方法吧,希望可以帮助大家高效备考翻译。 前置定语:使用形容词或分词短语做

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Now, we're headed towards a world where robots are everywhere. 我们正迈入一个机器人无处不在的社会。 Robotic technology is moving out from behind factory walls. 机器人科技正在走出工厂的围墙。 It's entering workplaces,

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A British man has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison over his attempt to grab a gun in a bid to kill Donald Trump. 一名企图抢枪杀掉唐纳德特朗普的英国男子于日前被判处监禁一年零一天。 Michael Sandford, 20

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办公室政治,对有些人来说是一个禁忌词汇,但在工作场合它却不可回避。简单说来,它就是职场上人与人的不同:观念的差异、利益的冲突都可以看成是办公室政治的表现。它等于人与人之

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The lecturer claims that the new policy, which allows people to work four days a week instead of five, will have negative effects for companies as well as society. This claim is not in agreement with that of the reading passage, which suggests that s

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【原文】 Panic and Its EffectsOne afternoon while she was preparing dinner in her kitchen, Anne Peters, a 32-year-old American housewife, suddenly had severe pains in her chest accompanied by shortness of breath. Frightened by the thought that sh

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CHICAGO, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Wade Michael Page, the lone suspect in last weekend's shootings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, died of a self-inflicted wound, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI) said Wednesday. At a televised news conference, FBI

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Earth's days are getting longer but you're not likely to notice any time soon it would take about 6.7 million years to gain just one minute, according to a study published last Wednesday. 据上周三公布的一份报告显示,地球的白天时间正

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Science and technology 科学技术 Animal behaviour 动物行为 Cold-blooded cunning 狡猾的冷血动物 Reptiles are more intelligent than previously thought 爬行动物的智商比人们之前想象的要高 IT IS no compliment to call someone

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Science and technology 科学技术 The Neolithic 新石器时代 Boom-time machine 时间机器解密:新石器时代的繁荣期 Building site, 3670 BC 公元前3670年的建筑遗址 THAT economic expansion leads to building booms seems to have be

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Britain 英国 Labor VS Capital: Justice in an age of austerity 劳工对资本:艰苦年代的正义 Charging workers from employment tribunals erodes their rights. 劳资审裁处向雇员收费会损害他们的权利。 Eight years after Britai

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Gurry, so called, is a term properly belonging to right whalemen, but sometimes incidentally used by the sperm fishermen. It designates the dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or right whale, and much of which cov

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