随着春节的来临,人们迎来了盼望已久的假期,已经开始了或者正在筹划着各式各样的狂欢,丰富多彩的嘉年华会,今天我们就让一起来讨论一下嘉年华(Carnival)的起源。 嘉年华(Carnival)源于《

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

TED与动画师安德鲁帕克合作,描绘了丹尼斯达顿对美这一概念所持的激进的理论--艺术、音乐和其他美的事物,不仅仅只是主观感受,而是深深植根于人类天性与进化起源的核心部分。

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看世界杯的时候,经常看到FIFA的字样在眼前飞舞。FIFA 指的是国际足球联合会,简称国际足联。这个机构的英文全称是International Federation of Association Football。不过FIFA的缩写是从法语来的,全名

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The first DNA analysis of 2,500-year-old remains from one of the great early civilizations of the Middle East, the Phoenicians, has shown the man had European heritage, researchers said Wednesday. 周三,研究人员宣布对于2500年的尸体的首

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A fistful of dollars 第一把美金 The dollar is one of the most common currencies in the world used by the US, Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, and Singapore to name a few. The origin of the dollar, also the Slovenian tolar, is from a coin ca

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Misfortunes of a nation may turn out to be fortunes of a philosopher, noted Qian Mu, arenowned expert in Chinese cultural studies. 国学大师钱穆曾说过:民族的不幸是哲人的财富 The sentence vividly summarizes ancient Chinese philoso

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A fistful of dollars 第一把美金 The dollar is one of the most common currencies in the world used by the US, Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, and Singapore to name a few. The origin of the dollar, also the Slovenian tolar, is from a coin ca

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With Vladimir's conversion and marriage to the Byzantine emperor's sister, 通过弗拉米尔的转变,还有他和拜占庭皇妹的联姻 as well as continued trade along the Volga route, the relationship between the two civilizations deepened. 以

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这几个短语对于聪明的你来说肯定是小菜一碟,但他们是怎么来的呢? 有点懵了吧!来普特英语小编告诉你。 1. Pass the buck 推卸责任 We all know that buck is informal American English for a dollar. Indeed, i

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When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for , as we all have observed, the beasts play. Dogs and cats wrestle and play ball games. Fishes and birds dance. The apes have sim

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April 1st is the day people try to tricktheir friends, to make them behavelike fools. Ranging from the elaboratepractical joke to the obvious Your zip's undone the joker gloatsApril Fool when the unsuspecting victim falls for it. No one is exemptunti

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【原文】 Some people cannot imagine starting the day without a cup of coffee. From the most fashionable cafes of Paris to the breakfast stands lining the streets of Taipei, coffee has firmly established itself as one of the world's favorite bever

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Mitochondria manipulate oxygen in a way that liberates energy from foodstuffs. 线粒体支配着氧,释放食物中的能量。 Without this niftily facilitating trick, life on Earth today would be nothing more than a sludge of simple microbes. 没有

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Even we can tolerate it only up to a point. 连我们对氧的耐受力也是有限度的。 The oxygen level in our cells is only about a tenth the level found in the atmosphere. 我们细胞里的氧气浓度,只有大气里的大约十分之一。

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Life emerged so swiftly, in fact, that some authorities think it must have had helpperhaps a good deal of help. 实际上,生命出现得太快,有的权威人士认为肯定有什么东西帮了忙也许是帮了大忙。 The idea that earthly l

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As one leading biology text puts it, with perhaps just a tiny hint of discomfort, 正如一篇重要的生物学文章所说,说得也许有点儿令人不大舒服: Researchers agree that such reactions would not have been energetically favorabl

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There are actually twenty-two naturally occurring amino acids known on Earth, 实际上,地救上有22种天然存在的氨基酸, and more may await discovery, but only twenty of them are necessary to produce us and most other living things. 更多

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19 The Rise Of Life 第十九章 生命的起源 In 1953, Stanley Miller, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, took two flasksone containing a little water to represent a primeval ocean, 1953年,芝加哥大学的研究生斯坦利米勒拿

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Proteins are what you get when you string amino acids together, and we need a lot of them. 你把氨基酸串在一起,就得到了蛋白质。我们需要大量的蛋白质。 No one really knows, but there may be as many as a million types of pro

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Recent discoveries in New World archaeology along with newscientific methods for analyzing data have led to new ideas regarding theorigin of the first peoples of the Americas and their time of arrival. 新大陆考古发现和新的科学方法 The t

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