In 1932, the Bank of France asked the United States to convert their holdings from dollars into gold. 1932年时,法兰西银行向美国提出申请,希望把银行中的美元兑换成黄金。 But it was too inconvenient to think about actuall

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

I want to tell you about the future of money. 我今天的话题是关于货币的未来。 Let's start with a story about this culture that lived in Micronesia in the early 1900s, called the Yap. 我们先从一个20世纪早期的故事开始,这个

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I would just like to say as an African woman 我只是想说作为一个非洲女人 that I believe the diet that we need 我相信我们需要的饮食疗养 is really to remove the crazy belief 是拿走那种疯狂的相信 that there is anything

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What are your top five favorite songs right now? 你现在最喜欢的五个歌曲是什么 All right, well first of all, I'mma say, 可以了,我们首先的,我在说, you know what I'm saying, I'm the only dude up here right now. 你知道我在

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Who do we got? 我们得到了什么? Hi, um, okay, hi everybody. 嗨,姆,好吧,嗨,各位。 My name is Nereida. 我的名字是呐瑞达。 I just want to say first of all 首先我只想说 that dating is never boring under any circumst

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GWEN IFILL: But, first, a trio of new studies provide new alarm about rising sea levels, and the prospect of further flooding along the coasts. Among them, seas rose faster during the past century than at any point in the last 2,800 years. Hari Sreen

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈环境系列

Cryptocurrencies are based on a special field of mathematics called cryptography. 加密货币是基于一种特殊的数学算法,称为密码学。 Cryptography is the study of how to secure communication, and it's about two really important thin

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

Commencement speeches are inspiring. They're filled with goosebump inducing anecdotes, brilliant metaphors and words of wisdom and advice that make you want to run out the door and chase your dreams down the block. 毕业演讲往往鼓舞人心。这些

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

Dear Future Husband, 亲爱的未来老公: I'm not yet sure whether you exist, though I'd like to believe that you do. While it may not make much logical sense, you've been on my mind lately. I haven't thought much about what you'll look like, how

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

A fridge that talks to your washing machine and a television that instructs your dishwasher. It's all possible at CeBIT, the world's top high-tech fair。 But the question is: what's the point? Well, for example, you could be sitting on your sofa in

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Twitter在YouTube上发布了一段非常滑稽的招聘视频,并已吸引超40万点击量。这段视频别出心裁地以拙劣方式模仿了常见创业公司的招聘视频,包含了拙劣的效果、蹩脚的音乐、呆板的演讲、糟糕

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别把过去的失败当成未来的常态!来普特英语感受一下吧! As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chai

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英国未来8年在路网投入巨资 LONDON, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- The British government has pledged to triple its funding on the country's major road network in the next eight years, calling on road building firms to get ready for a massive increase

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, every major occupational group, with the exception of farming and fishing occupations, are expected to gain jobs in the next 10 years. That being said, the possibilities are endless when it comes to pickin

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空客首席运营官谈航空产业的未来 There's a reason that there are only two major manufacturers in the world today, Airbus and Boeing, building aircraft, 100 seats and above. It is difficult to do because you don't just need to get the air

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite... I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious,

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STEVE INSKEEP: Now, President-elect Trump has said he would like to improve relations with Russia. His choice for defense secretary views Russia as America's number one threat. Let's listen to Gen. James Mattis at his hearing today. GEN. JAMES MATTIS

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TED(指technology, entertainment, design在英语中的缩写,即技术、娱乐、设计)是美国的一家私有非营利机构,该机构以它组织的TED大会著称。TED诞生於1984年,其发起人是里查德沃曼。 讲师: 丹尼

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Soon you could be competing with a robot for a job. 很快,你就会和机器人竞争上岗啦! Amy Webb, a digital media futurist and founder of Webbmedia Group, predicts at least eight career fields are ripe for disruption very soon -- like in

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The 2015 list of the greatest emerging technologies was recently published by Bernard Meyerson, chief innovation officer of IBM and chair of the World Economic Forums Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies. 最近IBM的首席创新官兼世界经济论坛

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