昆汀塔伦蒂诺(Quentin Tarantino),1963年3月27日生于美国田纳西州的挪克斯维尔,美国后现代主义导演、编剧、演员、制作人[1] 。 1987年,拍摄个人首部喜剧短剧《我最好朋友的生日》。1991年,

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 英语名人堂

Okay, so 90 percent of my photographic process is, in fact, not photographic. 好的,事实上,我摄影过程的百分之九十不仅仅只是照相。 It involves a campaign of letter writing, 它是一个包涵了写信, research and phone c

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲娱乐篇

Today is the last day of the World Food Conference in Rome. New Zealand has sent 11 people to this conference, with Jim Anderton, Minister of Agriculture, as the leader of this group. Along with Jim Anderton are other politicians, a climate scientist

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

This weekend, parts of New Zealand have experienced some very violent weather. A low pressure system coming from northern Australia hit Northland on Saturday and lasted for about 36 hours. The system moved south east to the Coromandel and the Bay of

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

MMP may be responsible for a delay in deciding whether National or Labour gets to form the new government. With 120 seats in parliament, the winning party needs 61 to have a majority. After the last elections, Labour had 50 seats while National had 4

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Today a new geo-thermal power station was opened in Kawerau, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Geo means earth and therm means heat. The power station uses hot steam from the earth. Like the geo-thermal power station at Wairakei, which opened in the 1950

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

This is the amazing moment a lightning bolt was captured as it struck the iconic Statue of Liberty. The impressive image was caught by New York photographer Jay Fine who spent the night braving the storm in Battery Park City, Manhattan, in a bid to g

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The Auckland south-western motorway now goes 13km from the airport to Mt Roskill but on Friday, another 4km to Sandringham Rd will open. This motorway is called State Highway 20 (SH20). The plan is for this motorway to continue further so that it lin

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

After the jobs conference (see February 27th 2009) the Prime Minister, John Key, was very interested in the idea of cycle tracks from the north of the North Island to the south of the South Island, about 2,000km. As well as being Prime Minister, John

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

There was some good news for the New Zealand economy in the latest figures from Statistics New Zealand ( www.stats.govt.nz ). For the first time for many years, we earned more money from our exports and paid less for imports. The surplus money was $8

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Time magazine included the Yike Bike in their list of the 50 Best Inventions for 2009. The Yike Bike is an electric bike which folds. It weighs about 9kg and has a battery which charges in about 20 minutes. You sit up straight on a Yike Bike holding

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The government plans to change some of our electricity companies. Two of the North Island electricity companies Genesis and Mighty River will have some South Island power stations and the South Island power company, Meridian, will get a North Island

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

一支新兴乐队的吉他手被人残忍的杀害,贝克特、卡塞尔来到案发现场。拍摄乐队纪录片的导演不愿让摄影队撤离,市政厅同意纪录片继续拍摄,贝克特对此持不同意见。卡塞尔、贝克特在纪

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 灵书妙探 第五季

SETI研究员赛斯.肖斯塔克打赌说我们会在接下来的24年里找到外星生物,否则他就免费请你喝杯咖啡。在TED的加州圣何塞拍摄点,他解释了新的科学技术和概率学规律是如何证明寻找外星人很可

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:头脑游戏

The earthquake on Wednesday night surprisingly caused very little damage. It was a big earthquake, 7.8 on the Richter scale. This is the biggest earthquake recorded this year anywhere in the world. However, it was in a very isolated part of New Zeala

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The governor of the Reserve Bank, Alan Bollard, increased the official cash rate (OCR) from 2.5% to 2.75%. This is the first rise in three years. During the economic recession, Bollard reduced the OCR from 8.25% in July 2007 to 2.5% in April this yea

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

On Thursday, the Party General Secretary of Vietnam, Nong Duc Manh, visited New Zealand to have talks with our Prime Minister. Mr Manh thanked New Zealand for the support that our country has given, especially in education and training. New Zealand h

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(137) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Japans Urban Search and Rescue (Usar) team left Christchurch today to help in the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan. They have been working long hours for the last two and a half weeks and are tired. They planned to leave tomorrow but when the

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(155) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

After Saturdays earthquake in the Christchurch area, the main focus was at first on the central city area. There has been a huge amount of damage to older buildings. Many of these were beautiful 100-year old buildings which made the central city attr

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The Feb 22nd earthquake in Christchurch was 6.3 on the Richter scale yet it did much more damage than the 7.1 earthquake on Sept 4th 2010. There are several reasons for this but the main ones are the depth of the epi-centre and the distance from the

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(235) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语