Neanderthals are extinct, but they were the closest relative of modern humans. Up until about 30,000 years ago, human beings shared the Earth with Neanderthals. The two species were so close that they sometimes mated. Scientists have long believed th

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(348) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

[00:05.12]( Hisses ) [00:16.68]- Looks like weve stopped. - ( Hisses ) 似乎停了 [00:21.44]( Snarling ) [00:34.96]- Were going again. - Thank you. 又上了 [00:38.48]-(Josh) Where is she? Is she here? - No, no. I dont think so. 她呢?在这层?

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 听电影学英语-缘分天注定

In 1996, 25 miles from the city of Mahajanga in northwest Madagascar, paleontologist were working on a routine excavation. 1996年,在离马达加斯加西北的马哈姜嘎市不到四十公里处古生物学家们在做例行挖掘。 But as they

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 英语第1级听力-English Level 1

Broadcast: Jan 17, 2003 At the unveiling of the First Europeans exhibit, Ellen Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History, offered reporters, 1) anthropologists and other scientists a

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(上)-科技先知

Most of us are repulsed by hairballs, but not Ryo Yamazaki, a Japanese photographer who lives in Tokyo. 我们大多数人都不喜欢毛团,但是现居东京的日本摄影师山崎亮却是个例外。 He is causing an internet sensation after m

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松英语

BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And, I'm Faith Lapidus. Today, we will tell about possible good news for people seeking to prevent Alzheimer's disease. We will also tell about two anci

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年VOA慢速英语(十)月

Discipline, comrades, iron discipline! That is the watchword for today. 纪律,同志们,铁的纪律!这是我们今天的口号。 One false step, and our enemies would be upon us. 一步走错,我们的仇敌便会来颠覆我们。 Surely

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Set them up over here. 椅子摆在那边 Vice President Matthews. 副总统马修斯 Bob. Mr. Vice President. 鲍勃,副总统先生 Mr. Vice President. Frank. 副总统先生,弗兰克 Sir, I'm gonna need you to stand on your mark. 先生,请站

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From there the skulls ranged upward in size to the three great monsters of song and story, 其他的龙头则一个比一个大,最大的三头便是歌谣和传说里最恐怖的巨兽, the dragons that Aegon Targaryen and his sisters had unleas

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We're really more into Batman. 我们通常都更偏爱蝙蝠侠(Batman)。 But this guy is really into Red Skull, the supervillain from Captain America. 不过有人却偏偏痴迷于《美国队长》(Captain America)里的大反派红骷髅(

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1. Russians 1、俄罗斯人 Scientists still cannot agree on their origins and answer the question when Russians became Russian. The ancestry of Russians were sought among Normans, Scythians, and Sarmatians, and even the South Siberian Usuns. 俄罗斯

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Oh! that is the one, sir! Said I not all seams and dents but one? 啊!就是这一样东西!先生,我刚才不是说过除了一样东西吗? Aye, blacksmith, it is the one; aye, man, it is unsmoothable; 不错,铁匠,就是这一样东西

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记

本期内容: A 1982 artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby's auction of contemporary art Thursday night. Sotheby's said the sale of Untitled was an auction record for the artist. It also set a record price for

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

文本: Ross: Hi, is uh, is Carol here? Susan: No, she's at a faculty meeting Ross: Oh, I uh, just came by to pick up my skull. Well, not mine, but...Susan: Come in. Ross: Thanks. Yeah, Carol borrowed it for a class, and I have to get it back to th

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 跟着美剧练发音

Among the more curious of such remains is part of a skull, which in the year 1779 was disinterred in the Rue Dauphine in Paris, 在这些遗物中最为希奇的是,一七七九年在巴黎的多芬纳路发掘出了一块头壳; a short street o

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In due time he learned that he could use this guttural noise to warn his fellow beings whenever danger threatened and he gave certain little shrieks which came to mean there is a tiger! or here come five elephants. 日子长了,他突然意识到,可

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

Money was also the motivation for writing the late string quartets. Prince Gelatin Commission Wattznard regarded it as the greatest music Beethoven ever wrote. To many contemporaries, this strange music was a definite proof that the composer had lost

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(137) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力:文化博览2008年

Working alone in the lab on the morning I passed through was a cheerfully grizzled, looking fellow in a blue work shirt 一天上午,我从里面经过,只见一个身穿蓝色工作服、头发灰白的人独自在实验室里忙碌。 whom I re

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

What kind of movie does it look like? 那看起来像哪种电影? It looks like...maybe a grown-up movie not meant for kids. My mom would not let me see this movie. 它看起来像...可能是一部大人的电影,不是给小孩看的。我妈妈

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(202) / 评论(0) 分类 欧美人文风情

Chapter 80 The Nut 第八十章 脑袋 If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square. 如果说,从相术上说来,抹香鲸是只狮身男头的巨像的

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