《魔戒》(The Lord of the Rings)又译《指环王》,是英国作家、语言学家、牛津大学教授约翰罗纳德瑞尔托尔金创作的长篇小说,被公认为近代奇幻文学的鼻祖,为《霍比特人》之续篇。该书讲

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年ESL之商务英语

a. Edingburge is the capital city of Scottland. b.The city is often regarded as the most cultured and cosmopolitan city north of London. c.The annual Edingburge international festival attracts millions of visitors from all around the world. d.The cen

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So we have gone through almost 30 characters. 我们已经学了差不多三十个汉字, By using this method, the first eight radicals will allow you to build 32. 通过这个方法,这八个基本字可以衍生出三十二个汉字, The nex

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I'm going to ask you three multiple choice questions. 我会给你们做三道多项选择题。 Use this device. Use this device to answer. 用这个装置来回答。 The first question is, how did the number of deaths per year from natural disaste

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New horizon's chief scientist is H. And where we are right now is a mission control for the new horizon's mission to Pluto, this is where we watch all the activities that are currently on the new horizon's mission, we have over here to the left the p

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(woman) I'd like to begin by thanking Dr. Kane for inviting me to be here today. Although I'm not a geologist, I have been collecting minerals for years. My collection is rally diverse because I've traveled all over the world to find them. Today I'v

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Three months ago, Mt Tongariro erupted, sending a cloud of ash into the sky. Today the same thing happened and it happened suddenly, without any early signs or noise. Again it sent a cloud of ash into the sky, about 5000m high. Listen to August 8th 2

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Crater 火山口 A crater is a big hole in the ground. 火山口就是地面上的大洞。 Volcanic activity can make craters. 火山活动会形成火山口。 After a volcano erupts, we see a huge hole on the top of the volcano. 火山喷发后,火

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Magmas 岩浆 Have you heard about liquid rock? 你听说过液态岩石吗? It might sound funny to you. 这听起来可能很好笑。 How can a rock be liquid? While it can be. 岩石怎么可能是液体呢?但有时它还真是。 If the tem

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Fossil 化石 Fossils are the ramains of animals or plants. 化石是动物或植物的遗骸。 They are usually inside of rocks. 它们通常在岩体内。 They are typically more than ten thousand years old. 它们通常有一万多年的历史。

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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: A Fiery World 夏威夷火山国家公园:一个火热的世界 EDITOR'S NOTE: This year, the U.S. National Park Service turns 100. Americans 28th President, Woodrow Wilson, formed the National Park Service in 1916 t

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His questions were different now, though, not as easily answered. 不过,他现在的问题变得不一样了,不再那么容易回答了。 He wanted to know what I missed about home, insisting on descriptions of anything he wasn't familiar with

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Although this image may seem like something that would only happen in a dream, photographer Nick Meek to bring that vision to life in a stunning campaign for Sony's new 4K TV. In total, 8 million flower petals were collected and released onto the lus

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There are few corners of the world that remain blissfully oblivious to tourism. 世间幸有几处世外桃源,尚未受到旅游产业的惊扰。 The Azores can be counted as nine of them as this is the number of islands that make up the Portugue

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MEGAN THOMPSON: Two-and-a-half million people visit Pompeii every year, making it one of Italy's busiest tourist attractions. The ancient city, close to modern-day Naples, is famous for being frozen in time, preserved as it was when the volcano Mount

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Evacuating Yellowstone would never be easy. 撤离黄石公园不会是一件容易的事。 The park gets some three million visitors a year, mostly in the three peak months of summer. 公园每年吸引着大约300万名游客,主要是在夏季3个

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Ninety minutes after the blast, ash began to rain down on Yakima, Washington, 爆发90分钟以后,灰烬开始雨滴般地洒落在华盛顿州的亚基马。 a community of fifty thousand people about eighty miles away. 那是个有5万人口的社

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Almost the only person who believed that something really bad might happen was Jack Hyde, a geology professor at a community college in Tacoma. 几乎只有一个人认为真的快出大问题了,他就是塔科马一所社区学院的地质学教授

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At that time, the lower forty-eight United States had not seen a volcanic eruption for over sixty-five years. 当时,美国本土的48个州在过去的65年里没有见过火山爆发。 Therefore the government volcanologists called in to monitor

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It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches, and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot. All this was a puzzle, but Hess had a war to take part in, and put such t

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