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

ESL之旅行 08 Missing the Tour Group Bus

08Missing the Tour Group Bus GLOSSARY to talk to (oneself) to speak quietly to oneself, not expecting anyone else tohear* Sawyer shares an office with someone who always talks to himself, so its difficult for him to concentrate on his work. tour grou

2015年ESL之旅行交通购物 03 Traveling to a Remote Island

Traveling to a Remote Island Leandro: When you said you got a plum job working abroad, I thought you were going to Europe or Asia. Where exactly is Hueller Island? Alysson: It?s in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Here, I?ll show you on the map. Lean

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

旅游口语情景对话 第32天:如何表达旅行之情

星级典句： 第一句：I really enjoyed the trip. 旅行真的很愉快。 A:How do you like your trip? 您觉得这趟旅行如何？ B:I really enjoyed it. Thank you for your warm hospitality. 旅行真的很愉快，谢谢你的热情好客。

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

万物简史 第26期:走进太阳系(4)

Tombaugh had no formal training as an astronomer, but he was diligent and he was astute, and after a year's patient searching he somehow spotted Pluto, a faint point of light in a glittery firmament. 汤博没有受过成为天文学家的专门训练，

万物简史 第23期:走进太阳系(1)

2.WELCOME TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM 2.欢迎来到太阳系 Astronomers these days can do the most amazing things. If someone struck a match on the Moon, they could spot the flare. From the tiniest throbs and wobbles of distant stars they can infer the siz

英语俚语天天说 第301期:不放弃 最重要

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. 我们只是一个很普通的星系中一个不重要的小星球上高等物种的猴子罢了

公众人物毕业演讲第374期:查理邓森2013在犹他州立大学(5)

Then there was the tipping point It paid me $100 a month more than I was currently making. 然后是直接让我心动的他愿意在我现在的酬劳上 一个月多给我100美元 I'll make it So I made the leap, but with a conscious commitment to

经济学人183:小行星探测 黎明号初试锋芒

Science and technology 科学技术 Investigating the asteroids 小行星探测 Dawn's early light 黎明号初试锋芒 A mission to the asteroid belt will visit leftovers from the solar system's formation 小行星带探测任务将造访太阳系形

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Any visitors to Earth from afar would almost certainly, at the very least, be bemused to find us living in an atmosphere composed of nitrogen, 任何光临地球的远方客人几乎肯定都会觉得好笑，发现我们生活在一种由氮和氧组成

万物简史 第338期:孤独的行星(3)

We have managed once, briefly, to send humans to that depth in a sturdy diving vessel, yet it is home to colonies of amphipods, 我们只有一次用坚固的潜水器成功地把人送到了那个深度，而且就一会儿，而那里却是端足目动

万物简史 第345期:孤独的行星(10)

Collapsed lungs were a routine hazard. 肺部坍缩是常有的危险， Perforated eardrums were quite common, but, as Haldane reassuringly noted in one of his essays, the drum generally heals up; 鼓膜穿孔也是家常便饭，但霍尔丹在一篇