Major discoveries don't happen very often. Furthermore, these discoveries rarely cause scientists to re-examine something they once thought was true. This month, National Geographic Channel explores a mystery that will do just that. China's Mystery M

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 常春藤生活英语

Guayule- A Promising Crop From The Desert D:Holy guayule,Yale. Y:Holy what? D:Guayule.It's a desert-dwelling shrub from the Southwest. Y:What about guayule?I never even heard of it. D:Several things.One of the most important features of the guayule p

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Some methods of preserving food are easy to understand. 一些保存食物的方法很容易理解。 For example, it's easy to see that freezing your food, or packing it in salt, would make it inhospitable to the microbes which would otherwise cause

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CHAPTER 1 Yellow Sands The four Alden children could hardly wait to get back to Mystery Ranch. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny had planned for weeks what they would do. Well go on that dear old train! said Violet. Remember Mr. Carter who helped us ca

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 5 迈克的谜案 Mike's Mystery

The White RoomI am now feeling like a lost camel in the Sahara Desert. I am very young and I've got a lot of things to learn. Sometimes I think: I don't know anything I should go to my house and begin to study. But, then, I think Why? A lot of the ti

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英文故事与诗歌

Switching from night and day So enchanting and wish such grace Wasting my time and myself Im degrading 白天黑夜交错 如此妖娆婀娜 蹉跎着岁月又蹉跎了自我 So many stray ahead but I stay confident Out of the darkness you can be fre

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阿努帕姆密斯拉以其超凡的智慧和幽默的谈吐,介绍了几个世纪以前印度金色沙漠里人们为了获得自然之水建造出的令人吃惊的技艺。这些建筑至今仍被延用,并且往往优越于现代大型的储水

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2002年绿洲乐队(OASIS)为英格兰足球队出征世界杯失败作的安慰歌曲,在OASIS所有专辑中这首歌 OASIS OASIS 的旋律可以说是最动听之一,而编曲却充分体现出英国--现代足球发源地对足球的感情。

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Desert Diversity at Joshua Tree National Park 约书亚树国家公园:沙漠的多样性 This week on our national parks journey, we explore a unique place where two deserts meet. The hot, harsh, rocky landscape is home to a rare and strange-looki

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A: Alright, ladies and gentlemen. Weve been hired to build a deck on this here house, and turn this boring and drab lawn into a backyard oasis. There is one catch, though. Weve only got one day to finish this, so Im gonna need everyone to give one hu

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Poetry is a very beautiful thing. I love reading it. Its very clever. Its like reading a painting. The poet paints beautiful scenes and images with just a few words. I think its amazing how the poet can change our feelings so simply, and can make us

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Oasis 绿洲合唱团:Wonderwall 迷墙 Oasis 绿洲合唱团,这个来自曼彻斯特的演唱组融合了 Beatles 的曲调并带有明显的英国抒情色彩。他们将一切用吉他的吼叫声串起来变成音乐,而他们的挑衅式的讥

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Todd: Simon, when you were younger, did you take vacations with your family? 托德:西蒙,你小的时候和家人一起度过假吗? Simon: Yes, I did. 西蒙:嗯,有过。 Todd: OK, where did you go? 托德:好,那你去哪里了?

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Desert-survival guides dictate that the best way to avoid heat and dehydration is to travel by night. 沙漠生存指南中写道 避免高温炽热和脱水的最好办法 就是在夜间行进 But this rough terrain is scarred by deep, unpredictabl

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The Mojave is one of the hottest, most arid places on earth. 莫哈韦沙漠是世界上最热最贫瘠的地区之一 But we're gonna take it to another level 但这还不够 and make conditions as bad as they can get to show you how to survive when

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Todd: Now, Aaron, Australia's a big place. Can you describe the Australian landscape? 托德:亚伦,澳大利亚非常大。你能描述一下澳大利亚的风景吗? Aaron: No worries. In Australia, there are cities and then there is country.

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Their towers however still stand amidst the ruins of Mesopotamia. 只有他们建造的高塔依然屹立在美索不达米亚的废墟之中。 The Jews saw them when they went into exile in the land of Babylon 犹太人在流浪途中经过巴比伦时

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Plants in the Deserts Some cacti, like the saguaro, grow to tree size, but true trees need more moisture than most desert environments can supply, so they are scarce on deserts. Close to streambeds, cottonwoods can sometimes be found. Though these st

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The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all. A marine census released recently documented 7,500 species living in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic, including several hundred that researchers believe could be new to science. Most of the

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美剧插曲《识骨寻踪》Rain 雨中的吉它民谣 如果我说沙漠和雨水,你会想到什么?我会想到,小王子说:沙漠之所以这么美丽,是因为它的深处 藏了一口井。所以在沙漠的黑夜,我们会看见莹

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