The Little Prince Visits the Conceited Man 小王子拜访爱慕虚荣的人 The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man. 第二颗行星上住着一个爱慕虚荣的人。 Ah! Ah! I am about to receive a visit from an admirer! he exclaimed f

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Down the Rabbit-Hole 掉进兔子洞 Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations i

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At the Sleepy Hollow 睡谷经历 August 12, 1841 1841年8月12日 After leaving the book at Mr. Emerson's, I returned through the woods, and entering Sleepy Hollow, I perceived a lady reclining near the path which bends along its verge. It was Marga

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Fun Fact: Alligators Can Regrow Teeth 有趣的事实:短嘴鳄可以再长牙齿 Fun fact about alligators: they can regrow any of their eighty teeth up to fifty times. Which is pretty impressive, especially compared to us relatively dentally chal

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The Asian Development Bank says Asia and the Pacific are behind in meeting certain parts the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. A new report by the ADB and the U.N. Development Program says progress is slow in reducing child mortality, pro

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Fifteen hundred years ago in China, silk production was a state secret. The silk trade was so valuable that anyone who tried to take silkworm eggs or mulberry seeds out of China was put to death. Then in 552 AD, two monks smuggled silkworm eggs to Co

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When they hear the name Ben Franklin, many folks think of the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress and things like that. Not as many people remember that Franklin was an inventor . . . and a good one, too! He also did some pioneering

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Niagara Falls has been a famous honeymoon spot for over a hundred years: some honeymooners have been more faithful to it than to each other. 一百多年来,尼亚加拉大瀑布一直是闻名的蜜月旅行圣地:许多新婚夫妇对它的情有

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Its eleven oclock Sunday morning, and youve just woken up after a late night of carousing. You stumble out of bed, brace yourself on the bathroom sink and blink into the mirror. 现在是周日上午11点,而你刚从前一晚的狂欢过后醒来。

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I have a trivia question for you, Don. What do the Ebola virus, anthrax, and the avian flu have in common? 唐,我有个小问题想问你,埃博拉病毒、炭疽热和禽流感这些疾病有哪些共同的特点? Researching Disease 疾病研究

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During the last ice age, rapid swings in temperature occurred within decades or less, meaning populations of organisms had to adjust quickly to new environments or face extinction. 在最后一个冰河世纪中,温度在数十年甚至更短的时间

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On airplanes, cabin pressure changes during takeoff and landing to help passengers breathe easy at high altitudes. These changes in air pressure may make adults ears feel a little funny, prompting a few yawns to equalize the pressure. But for babies,

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The next time youre driving during a rain shower, glance back at the rear window. Youll notice that while raindrops batter the front windshield, they seem to avoid the back window as long as the car is moving. How is that possible? 下一次下阵雨而

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You may have heard that humans and chimpanzees have something like 96 percent of our DNA in common. So why, then, are diseases like cancer so common in humans but so rare in chimps? If our DNA is nearly identical, shouldnt we be at risk for many of t

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Kids learn to count on their fingers, because theyre so, well, handy! And it makes sensemost number systems originally developed as people counted using their fingers. 小孩通过数手指来学习计数,因为这样确实非常方便。由此,最

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Attaining Moral Perfection 获取完美品德 In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous,as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. I propos

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The Mysterious Liquid In Yogurt酸奶中的神秘液体(双语) When you open a container of yogurt, youll often see liquid collected on top. Some people mix it back into the yogurt, and others drain it off. What is it, and where does it come fro

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What makes science really fun is when you get to do things yourself, so today were going to be making moon craters. 科学真正变得有趣的时刻就是当你亲自实践的时候,那么今天,让我们来一起制作月球陨石坑吧! They

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Why Does Crying Make Your Nose Run?哭的时候为什么会流鼻涕? When you burst out crying, you expect the bleary red eyes and the rivers of tears that stream down your cheeks. But on top of all that, your nose starts to run like a faucet. Why d

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Business Angel Engels 商贾天使恩格斯 When the financial crisis took off last autumn, Karl Marxs Das Kapital, 去年秋天金融危机爆发之际, originally published in 1867, whooshed up bestseller lists. 卡尔.马克思的《资本论》

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