Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. 在这大大压缩的一天中,大陆到处移动,以似乎不顾一切的速度砰地撞在一起。 Mountains rise and mel

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

Like most things that thrive in harsh environments, lichens are slow-growing. 像大多数在恶劣条件下茁壮成长的东西一样,地衣长得很慢。 It may take a lichen more than half a century to attain the dimensions of a shirt button. 地

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今天我们要学的词是 rev up. rev 用作动词是指引擎转速加快,常常和up连用,意思就是加速。Italy's big budget, intended to rev up the economy and help businesses, is instead likely to set back those efforts. 意大利巨大

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[00:05.32]jail:n.监狱;v.监禁 [00:07.31]jaw:n.下巴;唠叨;v.闲聊,唠叨 [00:09.24]jet:n.喷气式飞机,喷嘴;v.喷射 [00:11.04]kettle:n.水壶,水锅 [00:12.87]lad:n.男孩,小伙子 [00:14.77]lag:v.走得慢,涉后,落后

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英国每日邮报:我们经常说由于人类因为缺少环保意识才导致了地球变暖,但是,事实真的是这样吗?目前这还是个具有争议的话题. 全球变暖谁的错? Daily Mail: Was the Earth in a period of global warming or

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 双语趣听精彩世界

Very early one winter morning,during a hard frost, a fox was drinking at an ice-hole, not far from the haunts of men.Meanwhile,whether by pure accident or from negligence doesn's much matter,the end of its tail got wet,and froze to th

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03 澳大利亚主张日本在东帝汶维和进程中发挥更大作用 Australia Urges Japan to Help More in East Timor Peacekeeping Amy Bickers Tokyo 29 May 2001 12:32 UTC Australian Foreign Minist

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For all the trouble they take to assemble and preserve themselves, species crumple and die remarkably routinely. 尽管物种们费了九牛二虎之力聚集起来保存自己,但它们经常崩溃和死亡。 And the more complex they get, the mo

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So competition was fierce. 于是,竞争很激烈。 There was also an omnivorous and unsettling new type of predator on the scene, 而且,出现了一种新的无所不吃的、令人不安的捕食者。 one so perfectly designed for attack tha

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Weekly Address: President Obama Says GOP Senate Leadership Choosing to Filibuster Our Recovery and Obstruct Our Progress 每周电视讲话:奥巴马总统称共和党参议院领导层选择妨碍和阻挠经济复苏进程 WASHINGTON In this week

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These are difficult inconsistencies. 这些都是难以解释的矛盾地方。 As Richard Fortey observes: Somehow it does not seem satisfying just to call them 'lucky ones' and leave it at that. 正如理查德福泰所说:仅仅把它们称做幸运

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The fact is, we don't really know a great deal about the dinosaurs. 实际情况是,我们其实对恐龙了解不多。 For the whole of the Age of Dinosaurs, fewer than a thousand species have been identified (almost half of them known from a sin

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One day after delivering a speech to the Muslim world, U.S. President Barack Obama pushed for progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and in negotiations on Iran's nuclear ambitions. The president spoke after talks with German Chancellor Ang

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Even after stripping out the more crackpot notions there are still more theories for what caused the extinction events than there have been events. 即使去掉了不大切合实际的观点以后,解释灭绝事件原因的理论依然多子事件本

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The KT meteor had the additional advantage advantage if you are a mammal, that is that it landed in a shallow sea just ten meters deep, KT陨石还有一个优势那就是说,要是你是个哺乳动物的话,那是个优势它在只有10米深的浅

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What all this leaves us with, as one researcher has put it, is tons of conjecture and very little evidence. 这一切留给我们的,正如一位研究人员所说,是大量的猜测和很少的证据。 Cooling seems to be associated with at lea

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Two points need to be kept in mind. 我们需要记住两点。 First, these are all just informed guesses. 第一、这些都仅仅是根据资料作出的推测。 Estimates for the number of animal species alive at the end of the Permian range fro

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Earth has seen five major extinction episodes in its time the Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, and Cretaceous, in that order and many smaller ones. 地球已经目睹了5次大的灭绝事件依次在奥陶纪、泥盆纪、二叠纪、三叠纪

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Britain 英国 The Brexit Process: Lords-a-leaping 脱欧进程:贵族式跳跃 The Article 50 bill will pass, but the real debate about Brexit is yet to begin. 《里斯本条约》第五十条会被通过,但关于脱欧的真正谈判才正要开

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大千世界中,万物皆有时节,一切自有深意: 有诞生,也有死亡的时候。有种植也有采摘的时候。 There is a time For everything there is a season and the time for every purpose under the heaven-a time to be born and

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