世界节假日博览 第118期:世界音乐日

World Music Day is on June the 21st. It is actually known as the Fete de la Musique, because it began in France. In 1976, an American musician, Joel Cohen, suggested the idea of an all-night music celebration. He wanted the festival to take place on

世界节假日博览 第110期:世界海洋日

Over seventy per cent of the Earths surface is ocean. Many of our oceans are being damaged by human activity. On June 8, we recognize the importance of the oceans with World Ocean Day. This important day in the environmental calendar began on 8 June

世界节假日博览 第106期:世界环境日

World Environment Day (WED) is a day we all need to put in our diaries. It happens on June 5 every year and should be one of the most important days of the holiday calendar. WED was created in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly. The environm

世界节假日博览 第113期:世界献血日

Millions of people are alive today because they received the blood given by another person. June 14 is World Blood Donor Day. This is the day on which we can say thank you to those who give blood. Every country raises awareness of the importance of g

双语趣听精彩世界 第33期:中国打造世界最大的足球学校

BBC新闻的一篇报道题为中国打造世界最大的足球学校,它是否能让中国进入世界杯? 世界上最大的足球学校 在中国 BBC News: China opens world's biggest football academy. China is the world's most populous nation and

世界小史 第188期:雷雨云

The wind buffets you from every angle. 风从四面八方刮来。 And when the storm finally moves away,leaving in its place a clear, still, starlit night, 当随后雷雨逐渐消散，寂静、明澈的星夜终于来临时， you can hardly remem

世界小史 第187期:雷声

Have you ever watched a storm approaching on a hot summer's day? 你在炎热的夏天见过一场雷雨来临的情景吗？ It's especially spectacular in the mountains. 这在山区尤其壮观。 At first there's nothing to see, but you feel a so

How Art Made The World 人、艺术、世界 -15

Then around ten years ago, German archeologists began excavating here. What they found astonished them, because under their feet were colossal structures-- stone circles built from huge T-shaped megal

Take Away English-The World of Animation 动画世界

Wallace and Gromit: a smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic British films are rarely successful in the United States. However, the animated adventures of a cheese-loving, eccentric inventor and his canine companion are proving to be a surprise hit

罗布·霍普金斯Rob Hopkins:不用石油的转变世界

罗布?霍普金斯Rob Hopkins提醒我们：世界赖以生存的石油即将耗尽。为转变到没有石油的世界，他给出了自己的解答-转变响应。过没有石油的生活，牺牲我们的舒适生活，建立一个完全不依靠石

广告大餐 Budlight开启赛车世界

欣赏独具创意的英语广告！边听边看边学，品味世界名牌的风范，从细微之处感受英美社会的文化。

经典英文歌曲：《Wild World》狂野的世界

Wild World是二十世纪七十年代英国民谣摇滚歌手Cat Stevens(凯特斯蒂文斯)的代表作，也是传唱度最广的一首，出自1970年的经典专辑《Tea for the Tillerman》(农夫的茶)，许多歌手翻唱过这首歌，并演绎

美国学生世界地理教材 第215期:动物王国(2)

Other animals looking for food will come along too and must be scared away from the bait or killed. 其他寻找食物的动物也会出现，见到诱饵一定会被吓跑或被猎杀。 The first animal to come along is usually the hyena. 最先出现

美国学生世界地理教材 第214期:动物王国(1)

Have you ever been to the zoo or the circus? 你去过动物园或马戏团吗？ How would you like to live in a zoo where the animals were not in cages? 如果有个动物园，动物都不关在笼子里，你愿意住在里面吗？ The land in A

美国学生世界地理教材 第202期:风景明信片(3)

Their stockings are like mittens with a place for the toe, 他们的袜子像连指手套，四脚趾相连与脚拇指分开。 and they would no more think of stepping on the mats with their shoes on than you would of getting into bed with your sho

美国学生世界地理教材 第205期:人造山(1)

All the continents begin with an A except one. 地球上所有大洲的英文名字，除一个洲之外，都是以A开头的。 Asia is the largest continent. Africa is the next largest. 亚洲是最大的洲。非洲是第二大洲。 But Africa w

世界小史 第149期:富贵还是贫穷

Now they were carefully collected and valued twice as highly as before. 现在人们将它们收集起来并加倍珍惜它们。 And to become a government official, you had to know them all. 想成为一名中国政府官员，你必须熟读这些古

世界小史 第131期:亚历山大

Alexander only went east. Although 'only' may not be quite the right word! 亚历山大只向东方进军。只当然并非是个正确的词！ But the lands that lay to the west of Greece did not tempt him just a couple of Phoenician and Greek colo

世界小史 第130期:多里安人和伊安尼尔人

Egypt was then governed by a family of generals the Ptolemies. 接着一个将领家族统治了埃及托勒密王室。 The Seleucids ruled Mesopotamia, and the Attalids Asia Minor. 塞琉古王室统治了美索不达米亚，安提克王室统治了

世界小史 第126期:原路返回

Of course it would have been far the simplest thing to do, since those regions had already been conquered. 当然原路返回要省事得多，因为沿路各地区都已被占领。 But Alexander wanted new sights and new conquests. 但是亚历山大