approximate 近似的,近似 April 四月 arbitrary 随心所欲的,专断的 architect 建筑师 architecture 建筑学,家住式样 area 面积,地区,领域 argue 争论 argument 争论,辩论,理由 arise 发生,起来,出现 ar

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 大学英语四级词汇拼读版

Buttons Are Art at New York City Gallery 在纽约艺术画廊纽扣是一种艺术 No one can deny that buttons are an important clothing device. But, can they rise to the level of art? Organizers of an exhibit in New York City think so. Peter Soule

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(一)月

Do you think it's possible to control someone's attention? 你们觉得人的注意力是可控制的吗? Even more than that, 或者更进一步, what about predicting human behavior? 人的行为可预知吗? I think those are interesting ide

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲娱乐篇

Pardon me. 不好意思。 I don't think I need this clicker anymore. You can have that. 我觉得我不需要这个遥控器了,给你吧。 Thank you very much. I appreciate that. 谢谢,非常感谢! Come on up to the stage, Joe. Let's play

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Discovery 探索频道 点击播放

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(1437) / 评论(0) 分类 TAG标签

One of the clearest places to find good metaphors is in poems. 诗歌是最容易出现好隐喻的地方。 Take this haiku by the 18th century Japanese poet Issa. On a branch floating downriver, a cricket singing. 以18世纪日本诗人小林一茶的

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

And then Twitter came along, and made things even more magic, because I could ask instantly for anything anywhere. 后来,微博的出现让事情变得更加神奇,因为我可以在任意时间和地点提出任何要求。 So I would need a pi

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

My crew once pulled our van up to a really poor Miami neighborhood 我的团队曾经把车停在一个非常贫穷的迈阿密社区, and we found out that our couchsurfing host for the night was an 18-year-old girl, still living at home, 我们发现

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

Is this how stupid people die? And before I can change my mind, the door busts open. 愚蠢的人是不是就是这样死的?我还没来得及改变主意,门就打开了。 She's an artist. He's a financial blogger for Reuters, and they're pour

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: The blind get access to the world of art. The seeing get access to the world of the blind. 盲人可以走进艺术的世界,同时,视力正常的人也可以走进盲人的世界。

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 留美老师带你每日说英文

Books and Arts 《图书与艺术》版块 Art, gender and conflict 艺术、性别和冲突 The puppet-mistress of Mali 马里的木偶女王 The struggles of the only female practitioner of a venerable art form 古老艺术形式唯一女性传承者

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Oksana Dragan A music disc jockey who honed his skills in fundamentalist Iran is now a fixture of the Washington D.C. music scene, particularly among the 28 thousand or so Iranians living in the Unite

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(259) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--艺术专集

Oksana Dragan The diverse men and women who work as international radio broadcasters at the Voice of America represent a broad range of backgrounds and interests. Today on New American Voices you'll m

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(139) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--艺术专集

Prisoners Find Humanity in Theater Arts 囚犯们在剧场艺术中找到人性 On a recent day in New York City, seven women prepare for a theater production. Their show is not for a Broadway stage, however. And, the actors are not professional. The

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

学习英语的人都知道,在语言学习中,谴词造句,要遵守语法规则,不允许乱配鸳鸯。可是那些使用英语的英美人士,为了记录科学技术的新发展,以及生活中所创造的新观念,他们常常有意

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

However, that is simply not enough. 但是,这完全不够。 And I think what Herbie said-please listen, listen. 我在想Herbie的话,请听一听。 We have to listen to ourselves, first of all. 首先,我们必须聆听我们自己。 If I

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

Because of course, the ear is, I mean, subject to all sorts of things. 这当然是因为,我是说,耳朵受制于很多因素。 The room we happen to be in, the amplification, the quality of the instrument,the type of sticks...etc., etc. 我们现

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

As a lover of human anatomy, 作为人体解剖学的爱好者, I'm so excited that we're finally putting our bodies at the center of focus. 我很高兴我们终于开始关注人体之美了。 Through practices such as preventive medicine, patient

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲设计篇

She walked into a restaurant. It was lunch time. She was hungry. She sat down at a table. The waiter handed her a menu. What would you like to drink? the waiter asked. She asked for water. She was on a budget. She stopped buying drinks. Water was alw

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语第3级听力-English Level 3

Chapter Eight Rice Paddies and Math Tests 第八章 稻谷种植与数学测试 NO ONE WHO CAN RISE BEFORE DAWN 360 DAYS A YEAR FAILS TO MAKE HIS FAMILY RICH. 早起的鸟有食吃 The gateway to the industrial heartland of Southern China runs up thr

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