这是一个著名的文化现象:印度板球评论员Harsha Bhogle描述了20-20快速板球的出现以及所带来的现代印度的发展。他带领我们去了解印度板球怎样由让人昏昏欲睡的英国起源发展成拥有名人老板

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:世界权势大转移

模仿文本: Cricket began as far as we can tell in the 16th century as a farm game played by labourers and farmers around the home counties in Kent and Hampshire. But by the 18th century, cricket had really become a major spectator activity with

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英音模仿秀

Dust it off 旧事重提 Burning papers into ashes, 纸张化为灰烬 what a season, how they fly high from the ground ohhh 多么美的季节,它们怎么能从地面飞的那么高哦哦哦 there is yet another fountain flowing over, as the nigh

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春节,即农历新年,俗称过年,一般指除夕和正月初一。但在民间,传统意义上的春节是指从腊月初八的腊祭或腊月二十三或二十四的祭灶,一直到正月十五,其中以除夕和正月初一为高潮。

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻视频

1.Wedding announcements: The Catholic tradition of posting the banns required a couple to announce their wedding in print; this helped ensure they were not related. 宣布婚礼:根据规定的天主教传统要求夫妇宣布他们的婚姻并打印

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

A hog on ice,站在冰面上的一头大肉猪?哈哈,外国人可真够幽默的。 语源学家查尔斯·芬克的第一本语源学专著的书名就叫做《A Hog on Ice》。在这本书的序

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

Compared with the new eukaryotes the old prokaryotes were little more than bags of chemicals, in the words of the geologist Stephen Drury. 地球已经朝着真正有意思的行星迈出了第一步。与新的真核细胞相比,旧的原核细胞借

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It has been suggested that the cyanobacteria at Shark Bay are perhaps the slowest-evolving organisms on Earth, and certainly now they are among the rarest. 据认为,沙克湾里的叠层石也许是地球上进化最慢的生物,也肯定是现在

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This was most unexpectedso unexpected, in fact, that it was some years before scientists realized quite what they had found. 这完全是出乎意料的事太出乎意料了,因此科学家们实际上过了几年才充分意识到自己的发现。

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Yet we are talking about several hundred thousand types of protein, perhaps a million, 然而,我们在讨论的蛋白质有几十万种,也许是100万种, each unique and each, as far as we know, vital to the maintenance of a sound and happy

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Bob told me that it takes about seventeen minutes to read one zircon and it is necessary to read dozens from each rock to make the data reliable. 鲍勃对我说,识读一块锆石的数据大约要花17分钟;这了取得可靠的数据,每块锆

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Compston's machine allowed such rocks to be dated with unparalleled precision. 康普斯森的仪器能以无与伦比的精确度测定这些岩石的年代。 The prototype SHRIMP was built and machined in the Earth Science department's own worksho

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We are all the result of a single genetic trick handed down from generation to generation nearly four billion years, 我们都是同一遗传戏法的结果。那种戏法一代一代地传下来,经历了差不多40亿年, to such an extent that

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The Murchison meteorite was found to be 4.5 billion years old, 人们发现,默奇森陨石的年代已达45亿年, and it was studded with amino acidsseventy-four types in all, eight of which are involved in the formation of earthly proteins. 上面

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Well, that's essentially what Hoyle and others (including many ardent creationists) argue when they suggest that proteins spontaneously formed all at once. 哎呀,那基本上就是霍伊尔和其他人(包括许多热心的特创论者)提出的

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Without the cell, they are nothing more than interesting chemicals. 没有细胞,它们只是有意思的化学物质。 But without the chemicals, the cell has no purpose. 但要是没有这些化学物质,细胞就毫无用处。 As the physici

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Fred Hoyle and his colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe further eroded enthusiasm for panspermia 我们已经在第三章里提到,弗雷德霍伊尔和他的同事钱德拉威克拉马辛格认为, by suggesting that outer space brought us not only

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Leaders 社论 Cosmology 宇宙学 Man suddenly sees the start of the universe 揭秘宇宙的起源 The quest to understand reality takes a great leap backwards 科学新突破探索宇宙诞生之初的真相 IN THE beginning was the word and the w

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In due time he learned that he could use this guttural noise to warn his fellow beings whenever danger threatened and he gave certain little shrieks which came to mean there is a tiger! or here come five elephants. 日子长了,他突然意识到,可

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经典译文 happy birthday to you where did that song come from the story of how the song happy birthday to you came to be, began as a sweet one, that later soured. two sisters, mildred hill, a teacher at the louisville, kentucky experimen

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