(HELSINKI,Reuters)A Finnish man survived an attack by a beaver. (路透社赫尔辛基电)一名芬兰男子侥幸逃过一只海狸的攻击。 It had tried to bite his neck. 这只海狸试图咬他的脖子。 Experts say it is rare for beav

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 赖世雄英语新闻听力通

One summer, when Sam Beaver was about twenty, he and his father were sitting in their camp in Canada. 一个夏天的某日,快长到二十岁的萨姆正和它的父亲坐在他们在加拿大的营帐里。 It was after supper. Mr. Beaver was roc

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 吹小号的天鹅

Rain or shine, cold or warm, every day was a happy day for the two swans. 不管雨天还是晴天,也不管天冷还是天热,对这两只天鹅来说每一天都是幸福的。 In time, the eggs were laid and the cygnets were hatched--four of t

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What ever happened to your friend Louis? asked Mr. Beaver. 你的朋友路易斯怎么样了?比弗先生问, Louis was a trumpeter. You don't suppose he's somewhere around here, do you?路易斯就是一只号手天鹅。你不认为他有可能就

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Words and Their Stories: State Nicknames, Part 2 词汇典故:美国各州别名 2 Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. 现在是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故节目。 As we told you last week, every American state h

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On they went, until they came to some woods and a red barn. 他们继续走,一直走到了一片树林和一个红色谷仓前。 Then the tired old rabbit said something again. 这时,这只疲惫的老兔子又嘀咕了一句。 What did you s

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 美国小学英语教材3

Get up, there! said Billy Beaver to the fox. 我们往那儿走。海狸比利对狐狸说。 Away they went, and the rabbit began to walk down the hot, bumpy road. 他们走了,兔子也开始在炙热而颠簸的路上走了起来。 He walked ju

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动物如何思考? 关于鸟类大脑,猴子思维以及更多的惊人真相研究者发现,灌木丛里的鸟儿也能把你骗到。猴子会因为自己判断失误而自我惩罚。至少已经有一只鹦鹉能够理解一些与0相近的数

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Animals think much while building their houses. The bird searches for what it can use in building its nest, and in doing this it thinks. The beavers think as they build their dams and their houses. Th

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Very soon the train slowed down at Pinedale and stopped. Six men were standing on the platform. Some of them were laughing and pointing as the Aldens got off the caboose. Benny went up to a tall man and said, Wed like to know what is different about

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Late in the afternoon, the swan was rewarded for her patience. 下午晚些时候,雌天鹅的耐心得到了回报。 She gazed down, and there, pushing her feathers aside, came a tiny head--the first baby, the first cygnet. 她往身下望去,在

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 吹小号的天鹅

Queen Elizabeth II April the 21st marks the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. She is one of the most famous women in the world but how much do you know about the British monarch ? Did you know, for example, that the Queen is the 15th richest woma

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 Take Away English

The seven great birds stayed aloft about half an hour, then returned to the pond, the cob still in the lead. 七只大鸟在天上飞了大约半小时,然后便回到了池塘,领队的还是雄天鹅。 They all had a drink to celebrate the suc

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Sam, if a man can walk three miles in one hour, how many miles can he walk in four hours? 萨姆,如果一个男人在一小时内能走三英里的话,那么他四小时能走多少英里? It would depend on how tired he got after the first ho

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After a while, Mr. Brickle rose to his feet and addressed the boys and the counselors. 过了一会儿,布里克先生站起来对男孩和辅导员们发表演说了。 I call your attention, he said, to a new camper in our midst--Louis the Swan. 我

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Suddenly, a wave caught the canoe and spun it around. 突然,一个大浪把独木舟打得转了起来。 Applegate leaned hard on his paddle. 阿普尔盖特拼命地靠在他的桨上。 His hand slipped, and he lost his balance. 他的手一滑,

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Louis read the article to the end and then tore it out of the paper. 路易斯从头至尾读完后,把这篇文章从报上撕了下来。 Sam Beaver ought to know about this, he thought. 萨姆比弗应该知道这些,他想。 From the writing

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 吹小号的天鹅

THE LITTLE AMERICAN WOODCUTTER 小小美国伐木工 Clarence Hawkes 作者:克拉伦斯霍克斯 Clarence Hawkes, the author of this story, has been blind for many years, yet boys and girls in all parts of our country have seen nature through his

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 美国小学英语教材5

Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time, Form of the thing, each word made true and good, The apparition comes: 果然不出所料,那魂灵又来了,它出现的时间还有身影与马塞勒斯与勃那多描述得竟然不差分毫。 I kne

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They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance. 他们大都是一些体格魁梧的小伙子;都是一些砍过了山林,现在却想放下斧头.抓起捕鲸枪的人

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