A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great res

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One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950's and 1960's on the school

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Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an in

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When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for , as we all have observed, the beasts play. Dogs and cats wrestle and play bal

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Collectibles have been a part of almost every culture since ancient times. Whereas some objects have been collected for their usefulness, others have been selected for their aesthetic beauty alone. In

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The debate on gay marriage is making me uncomfortable. Columnists tell me breezily that I should welcome it because of equality. Catholic and Anglican Bishops say I should shun it because it undermines one of the fundamental building blocks of societ

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And of course that's just where the problems lie. Though people on both sides appeal to what is natural, nature unhelpfully supports both sides liking both consistency and variety in gender and sexuality. So most people are male or female, but there

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As things are, I see two dangers and they are linked. The first is that if the Church is quick to assert and slow to listen, it can give the impression to its own members that moral insight is never to be had outside Christianity and that can be hear

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In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of

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Television-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promi

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There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as

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In the late eighteenth century, battles raged in almost every corner of Europe, as well as in the Middle East, south Africa ,the West Indies, and Latin America. In reality, however, there was only one

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Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far as the reptiles. There is some evide

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More recent and disturbing history will be reviewed this week by a court in Oslo. While Anders Behring Breivik will present his own warped view of reality, victims and bereaved families will confront again the terror of what actually happened. To res

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Two US companies announced earlier this week that they have shelved the testing of a particular drug. 本周早些时候,两家美国公司宣布他们已放弃对一种药的测试。 It had been the best hope for a treatment for Alzheimer's. 人们

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Tomorrow, the verdict is expected in the highly controversial trial of three members of the punk band Pussy Riot, 明天,将判决极具争议的朋克乐队暴动猫的三名成员, who have been jailed for staging what they described as a polit

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It's not easy to knuckle down to the responsibilities of a working week and a wounded world after the excitements of the Olympic experience which has taken us all by surprise. 在令人惊叹的奥运会之后,人们一时间很难从激动的状态中

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It was Bob Diamond, recently of Barclays, who defined business culture as how people behave when no one is watching. Speaking in a lecture sponsored by the Today programme last year, he declared that business corporations like Barclays had to learn h

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一、段落(paragraph) 段落是小于语篇的语义单位,是一个在概念上比句子更大的翻译分析单位。它可能是几个句群,也可能是一个句群,还可能只是一个句子,甚至是一个词。以段落为单位对

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