An explosion took place between two subway stations in St. Petersburg, Russia, yesterday and officials say it was a terrorist attack. This happened just after 2:30 p.m. in Russia's second largest city. Russian officials say one explosive device went

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年4月

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(82) / 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(49) / 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(52) / 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(1434) / 评论(0) 分类 TAG标签

As if he didn't have it tough enough in a wheelchair from three surgeries, 66-year-old Celedono Carrera was a target for two young apparently heartless thieves. Carrera is just finding out his mid-afternoon ordeal two weeks ago outside his apartment

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2009年

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(45) / 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(52) / 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(58) / 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(62) / 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(56) / 评论(0) 分类 留美老师带你每日说英文

今天我们要学的词是touch off。 To touch off, 意思是引起。 The new measure touched off strong criticism from the opposition party, 新措施引起了反对党的强烈批评。 His comment touched off a controversy about the figure skat

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

This the VOA Special English Development Report. Picture a bicycle with a two-wheeled carriage in place of a back tire. India has millions of these cycle rickshaws. The operators are called pullers. They ride through the streets pulling passengers a

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(五)月

Every flu seasonthats now through the springepidemiologists track flu infections as they break out across the country. And they forecast how bad it's going to get: at the national level, regionally, state by state. They even forecast for metro areas,

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年Scientific American(十二)月

今天我们要学的词是oversight。 Oversight, 有监督的意思。美国地铁最近事故频发。Unlike airplanes and highways, the subway system is not under federal oversight, 跟飞机和高速公路不同的是,地铁不受联邦政府监

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

By Lisa Bryant Paris 14 November 2007 Public transportation ground to a virtual halt across much of France as workers went on strike for the second time in a month to protest proposed government reforms. For VOA, Lisa Bryant has more in this report f

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)

今天我们要学的词是vigilant。Vigilant, 意思是警觉的,警惕的。美国总统奥巴马宣布大幅裁减美国的军事预算。但是他表示: We're going to stay vigilant, especially in the Middle East, 我们将保持警惕,特别

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

I'm almost like a crazy evangelical. 我几乎像一个疯狂的福音派信徒, I've always known that the age of design is upon us, almost like a rapture. 一直深信设计时代来临,几乎像狂喜一般。 If the day is sunny, I think, 如果

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

本期内容: To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. 生活是一种人人须学,而无人能教的艺术 我们重点来学习一个单词 remain R-E-M-A-I-N remain的意思有很多 做动词有剩下,留存

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