Learn English for the 2008 Olympics New City Versus the Old Foreigner: Beijing is developing so fast that in effect, it is a completely new city. Impressive as your new skyscrapers are, they are chang

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(233) / 评论(0) 分类 英语沙龙2004全年合辑上

When they unearthed the floor of the buildings within which the objects had been found, they discovered another surprise. We found a special set of stones, consisting of a tethering stone up front here then an opening in the ground surrounded by lim

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Moving any single piece would have taken a workforce of hundreds.Using sleds to transport the pieces through the city. Monuments,like statues and obelisks,would have been taken down and transported whole. Temples and other bulidings, a single piece

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The modern day town of Qantir is a jumbled collection of ramshackle buildings typical of a delta town today. Judging by its central position on the scan. It is almost certainly sitting slap-bang on the top of Ramesses II s palace. According to accou

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The most wonderful part of all this huge area is a building in the middle of our scan, one huge structure covering more than 41,000 square meters, the center of which is a building which shows a sequence of rooms. All of them with symmetrically arra

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我们如何解决郊区面临的种种问题?城市学家杰夫斯佩克告诉我们如何从对被他称作排放废气,浪费时间,威胁生命的假肢工具 - 汽车的依赖中解放出来,使我们的城市变得适宜步行和适宜更

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:环境 重造计划

Formula sun! Driver in China covers his tiny hatchback front to back in solar panels to cut back on petrol 中国司机用太阳能板覆盖小的掀背车,减少汽油的消耗 A driver in China is harnessing the power of the sun by converting his

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

It's like some vision of hell, an environmental apocalypse happening right now. This is the place where the coal fires burn throughout the night, and where there is still darkness at noon. This is the place with the worst pollution, collects the wors

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在一个伦敦那么大的城市里,每天都要消耗掉三千万吨粮食。但是,这些食物都从何而来?建筑师Carolyn Steel 探讨每天喂养一个城市的神话,介绍古代的食物运输如何影响城市的形成和发展。

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1998年,飞行器设计师Paul MacCready面对一个人类全面统治自然的星球,讨论我们可以做些什么来维持自然的平衡。他的贡献:太阳能飞机,超高效滑翔机和电动汽车。

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AS IT IS 2015-10-13 India to Bring Light and Heat with Solar Energy 印度使用太阳能带来光和热 Hundreds of villages in rural India are using clean energy powered by the sun. This month, 61 households in the village of Baripatha in eastern I

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巴黎气候变化大会的责任与期盼 There is hope in combating the effects of a rapidly warming planet, according to U.S. Congressman Don Beyer, who serves on the Joint Economic Committee and the House Committee on Natural Resources. 美国国会

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Message on World Cities Day 世界城市日致辞 31 October 2015 2015年10月31日 The theme of this years observance of World Cities Day Designed to Live Together highlights the key role of urban design in building sustainable, socially integrated

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JUDY WOODRUFF:Now the challenges of combating climate change. This week, the European Union announced it was loosening its strict environmental regulations in the face of economic setbacks. In the U.S., renewable sources of energy like wind and solar

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈环境系列

These laws were so strict that people still speak of Draconian severity. 这些法律十分严厉以致人们今天还在谈论德拉古的严厉。 But the people of Athens, who had roamed the seas in their ships, and had heard and seen so many diff

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We care about staying safe during our travels, especially when we take our epic adventures solo. There's no reason for travel disasters when you can prevent them. 外出旅行的时候,我们会非常关注安全问题,特别是当我们独自外出

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No, the progress of the last six hundred years would not have been possible without the existence of cities. 不过,如果不是因为城市的存在,过去六百年来的进步将是完全不可能的。 I shall, therefore, have to make this cha

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

That's why when, in California, we try to deal with all the solar we've brought online 这就是为什么在加州,我们正在尝试太阳能的完全使用, we now get about 10 percent of electricity from solar 我们现在能够从太阳能获得

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Now, you might wonder, Come on, how much could five percentage points of global electricity be? 现在你可能会问,拜托,全球5%的电力能有多少? Well, it turns out to be quite a bit. 事实证明还蛮多的。 It's the equivalent of

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Three of China's big cities -- Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen -- have topped a ranking of the country's richest cities, according to a list released by China Business News, an economic news portal. 据经济新闻门户网站《第一财经日报》发

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