New Plastic-Eating Substance May Help Fight Against Pollution Scientists in Britain and the United States have designed a substance that eats plastic. They believe that, in the future, it could help reduce pollution. 英国和美国科学家设计出了

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(四)月

Really? I interrupted, fascinated. 真的?我打断了他的话,有些着迷。 But you said you were the only one who could hear people's thoughts. 可你说过你是唯一一个能听到别人的思想的人。 That's true. She knows other thin

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How was your day? I asked. 你今天过得怎么样?我问道。 The words were rushed; I was dying to escape to my room. 这话说得太仓促了。我迫不及待地想要逃回我自己的房间。 Good. The fish were biting... how about you? Di

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His expression shifted instantly to chagrin. Are you very angry with me? 他的神情立刻变得苦恼起来。你很生我的气吗? That depends! I felt and sounded like I'd had the breath knocked out of me. 那得看情况!我感觉到,也能

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Lesson 64 The Red Metal Called Copper 第64课 红色金属铜 There is only one metal which is red in colour. Its name is copper. On the shores of Lake Superior in North America, lumps of pure copper are found in the rocks; but in Cornwall , and in

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英国学生科学读本

In contrast, the leaders we revere, the businesses and institutions that last, they are not generally the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. The preservation of the union or the d

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 名校励志英语演讲

And the dominant kind of snobbery that exists nowadays is job snobbery. 今天,最主要的势利就是对职业的势利。 You encounter it within minutes at a party, 你在派对中不用一分钟就能体会到, when you get asked that famous

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

In the spring of 1904, Rutherford traveled to London to give a lecture at the Royal Institutionthe august organization founded by Count von Rumford only 105 years before, though that powdery and periwigged age now seemed a distant eon compared with t

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At McGill University in Montreal the young New Zealandborn Ernest Rutherford became interested in the new radioactive materials. With a colleague named Frederick Soddy he discovered that immense reserves of energy were bound up in these small amounts

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And his fancy equipment did in fact come in very handy. For years, he and Madame Lavoisier occupied themselves with extremely exacting studies requiring the finest measurements. They determined, for instance, that a rusting object doesn't lose weight

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Because chemists for so long worked in isolation, conventions were slow to emerge. Until well into the second half of the century, the formula H2O2 might mean water to one chemist but hydrogen peroxide to another. C2H4 could signify ethylene or marsh

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Soon after taking up his position, Davy began to bang out new elements one after anotherpotassium, sodium,magnesium, calcium, strontium, and aluminum or aluminium, depending on which branch of English you favor. 上任不久,戴维开始宣布发现一

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Mendeleyev dutifully completed his studies and eventually landed a position at the local university. There he was a competent but not terribly outstanding chemist, known more for his wild hair and beard, which he had trimmed just once a year, than fo

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Mendeleyev used a slightly different approach, placing his elements into groups of seven, but employed fundamentally the same principle. Suddenly the idea seemed brilliant and wondrously perceptive. Because the properties repeated themselves periodic

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The nineteenth century held one last great surprise for chemists. It began in 1896 when Henri Becquerel in Paris carelessly left a packet of uranium salts on a wrapped photographic plate in a drawer. When he took theplate out some time later, he was

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As a leading member of the Acadmie Royale des Sciences, he was also required to take an informed and active interest in whatever was topicalhypnotism, prison reform, the respiration of insects, the water supply of Paris. It was in such a capacity in

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名词可以分为专有名词( Proper Nouns )和普通名词 (Common Nouns) ,专有名词是某个(些)人,地方,机构等专有的名称,如 Beijing , China 等。普通名词是一

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Alwar Balasubramaniam的雕塑利用时间,形状,光影,视角这四种或揭露或隐藏事物本质的感官错觉与我们对话。在TED印度的舞台上,艺术家利用幻灯片给我们展示了他的神奇设备。

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:艺术与幻觉

一、四级词汇总量分析 大学英语教学大纲规定四级考试对词汇的要求是记忆4200个单词以及由这些词构成的常用词组。根据研究分析大学英语四级考试历次真题,我们将四级词汇分为核心词汇

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Alwar Balasubramaniam:物质存在与缺失之艺术 Alwar Balasubramaniam的雕塑利用时间,形状,光影,视角这四种或揭露或隐藏事物本质的感官错觉与我们对话。在TED印度的舞台上,艺术家利用幻灯片给我

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