纯正英语一分钟-houses

All houses are unique. Even if they look the same from the outside, they are very different on the inside. I think houses are very interesting. I like looking at the way they are built and the style they are built in. In London there are many houses

VOA慢速英语--NASA称新发现的行星或拥有生命形式

For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a system of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting around a single star. The finding was announced Wednesday by officials from NASA the U.S. space agency and other research team members. The discovery

与美国小学生一起学英文第12册 第11期:水星

Mercury 水星 Which planet is the closest to the sun in the solar system? 太阳系中哪颗行星离太阳最近？ It is Mercury. It is also the smallest planet in the solar system. 水星。它也是太阳系中最小的行星。 How small is Mer

TED演讲:可能存在生命的三颗卫星和一颗行星(5)

Cassini just a few months ago also flew through the plume, and it measured silicate particles. 卡西尼太空船几个月前又从这些飞溅的水流中穿过，它检测到了硅酸盐颗粒。 Where does the silica come from? 这些硅从哪来的

TED演讲:可能存在生命的三颗卫星和一颗行星(7)

Another moon that we're looking at is Titan. 我们在研究的另一个卫星是土卫六。 Titan is a huge moon of Saturn. 土卫六是土星的一个非常大的卫星。 It perhaps is much larger than the planet Mercury. It has an extensive atmo

TED演讲:可能存在生命的三颗卫星和一颗行星(6)

Another moon, very similar, is Europa. 另一个非常相似的卫星，木卫二。 Galileo visited Jupiter's system in 1996 and made fabulous observations of Europa. 伽利略号在1996年时探访了木星系统，对木卫二进行了详细的观察

英语听力：自然百科 行星旅行：土星 Saturn—13

Planet earth never attempted to land on such a distant world before. With Huygens probe on final approach to Titan, operations switch to European mission control. The probe hurtled into Titans atmosphere at 6km a second, the atmosphere would have bee

听一分钟英文：Planets-星球

How did all the planets get there? How is it only our planet has life? Will we ever travel to other planets? These are questions I often think about. I think our planet is the best. It looks so beautiful from space with its mixture of blue and green.

听一分钟英文：Snakes-蛇

I think snakes are very interesting. They have a very strange effect on people. Some people are fascinated by them, but others are terrified of them. I love looking at them. They really are fantastic creatures. Its almost as if they come from another

经济学人44:全民天文学 卧室里的新天地

Science and Technolgy 科技 Citizen astronomy 全民天文学 A new world in your bedroom 卧室里的新天地 Amateur astronomers join the ranks of the planet hunters 业余天文学家加入猎星人行列 IN AN age of professionals, the ability

万物简史 第74期:事物的测定(22)

In 1781 Herschel became the first person in the modern era to discover a planet. He wanted to call it George, after the British monarch, but was overruled. Instead it became Uranus. 1781年，赫歇尔成为现代行星发现者的先驱。他曾想把

万物简史 第36期:走进太阳系(14)

What an interesting and exciting thought. We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, w

万物简史 第30期:走进太阳系(8)

Now the first thing you are likely to realize is that space is extremely well named and rather dismayingly uneventful. Our solar system may be the liveliest thing for trillions of miles, but all the visible stuff in itthe Sun, the planets and their m

雅思阅读词汇：火山爆发(四)

manganese n. 锰（元素符号为Mn） mantle composition 覆盖物的成分 Mercury n. 水星 molten v. 溶化；adj. 熔铸的 monitor n. 监视器，监控 mudflow n.[地] 泥流 Neptune n. [天]海王

英文短篇故事（纽约）413 The Sky Is Falling

An asteroid hurtled past Earth. It was 13 times closer to Earth than the moon is. Then a huge meteorite exploded above a city in Russia. The shock wave shattered thousands of windows. Then a white fireball over San Francisco startled witnesses. Then

万物简史 第357期:孤独的行星(22)

Oxygen itself is not combustible; it merely facilitates the combus tion of other things. （氧本身是不可燃的，它只是帮助别的东西燃烧。 This is just as well, for if oxygen were corn bustible, each time you lit a match all the air

万物简史 第358期:孤独的行星(23)

The Romans also flavored their wine with lead, which may be part of the reason they are not the force they used to be. 罗马人也用铅来给酒调味，这也许是他们不再像以往那样强大的部分原因。 As we have seen elsewhere, our

万物简史 第356期:孤独的行星(21)

We have evolved to utilize or tolerate these thingswe could hardly be here otherwise but even then we live within narrow ranges of acceptance. 我们已经逐步学会利用或忍受这些东西要不然我们几乎不可能在这里但即使那样，我

万物简史 第349期:孤独的行星(14)

The figures have since been refined and made a little more generous, 自那以后，这两个数字被更精确地测算了一遍，放宽了一点， 5 percent nearer and 15 percent farther are thought to be more accurate assessments for our zone of

万物简史 第346期:孤独的行星(11)

Under its influence divers had been known to offer their air hoses to passing fish or decide to try to have a smoke break. 据知，在氮的影响下，潜水员会把自己的空气管扔给从身边游过的鱼，或决定抽支烟歇息片刻。