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It's Time to 'Play Possum' Now, it's time for Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program, we talk about words and expressions in American English. And today we will talk about defense mechanisms. These are different ways the b

英国学生科学读本 第87期:蚯蚓(1)

Lesson 87 The Earth-worm 第87课 蚯蚓 The earth-worm is also called the dew-worm, because it likes to come out of its hole and creep about when the grass is wet with dew. 蚯蚓又叫露水虫, 因为当天气潮湿、小草上挂满露水时, 它就

英语听力文摘 English Digest 563、植物的自我防御！

Plant Self-defense Plants may appear to be helpless in the face of hungry,toothy animals but many plants have evolved interesting systems of self-defense. Coarse meadow grasses are a good example. If you run your finger along a blade of coarse grass,

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Fivelittlemonkeysjumpingonthebed Onefelloffandbumpedhishead Mamacalledthedoctor, Andthedoctorsaid Nomoremonkeysjumpingonthebed Fourlittlemonkeysjumpingonthebed Onefelloffandbumpedhishead Mamacalledthedoctor Andthedoctorsaid, Nomoremonkeysjumpingonthe

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - First electronically controlled animal

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS -May 21, 2002: First electronically controlled animals / Study of mothers and their sons / Effects of global warming Broadcast: VOICE ONE: This is Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And this i

TED演讲 :飞向海洋(4)

And then by moving through the water it's able to take that control. 通过在水中的运动，它能够控制自如。 Now, look at that; look, it's she just blew me away. 现在，看，看她刚刚把我刮走了。 She just rolled right away fro

【英文短篇小说】Animal Rescue（1）

[ADVISORY : Story contains adult language and criminal violence] Bob found the dog in the trash. It was just after Thanksgiving, the neighborhood gone quiet, hung-over. After bartending at Cousin Marvs, Bob sometimes walked the streets. He was big an

【英文短篇小说】Animal Rescue（2）

At Cousin Marvs, where he tended bar twelve to ten, Wednesday through Sunday, he told Marv all about it. Most people called Marv Cousin Marv out of habit, something that went back to grade school though no one could remember how, but Marv actually wa

【英文短篇小说】Animal Rescue（3）

First thing it did was take a shit in the dining room. Bob didnt even realize what it was doing at first. It started sniffing, nose scraping the rug, and then it looked up at Bob with an air of embarrassment. And Bob said, What? and the dog dumped al

【英文短篇小说】Animal Rescue（4）

By one fifty, the crowd was gone, just Eric and Nadia and an old, stringent, functioning alcoholic named Millie whod amble off to the assisted living place up on Pearl Street at one fifty-five on the dot. Eric, who had been coming to the bar for shot

1st Samuel 撒母耳记上17

17Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at Socoh in Judah. They pitched camp at Ephes Dammim, between Socoh and Azekah. 2Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah and drew up their battle line to mee

1st Samuel 撒母耳记上26

26The Ziphites went to Saul at Gibeah and said, Is not David hiding on the hill of Hakilah, which faces Jeshimon? 2So Saul went down to the Desert of Ziph, with his three thousand chosen men of Israel, to search there for David. 3Saul made his camp b

英语听力文摘 English Digest 27、狗和狼

Don: Who's the smartest dog in the whole wide world? DOG BARKING Yael: Please. Even if Ralph is the smartest dog in the world, that's not saying much. Any animal that will do exactly what you tell it to do isn't very smart. I'm not saying dogs weren'

世界小史 第24章:猫

In the Egyptian religion, certain animals were sacred: cats, for example. 在埃及的宗教中，有些动物也是神圣的，譬如猫。 Other gods were represented in animal form. 人们把某些神描绘为动物的形态。 The creature we kno

The animal song 简简单单地生活

The Animal Song When superstars and cannonballs are runing through your head. Television freak show cops and robers everywhere. Subway makes me nervous people pushing me too far. got to greak away so take my hand now because. I want to live like ani

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In a little room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there's a scientific collection like no other, a room full of animal eyeballs. Want to see an eyeball from a duck-billed platypus - and who doesn't? Let's face it - o

英语听力文摘 English Digest 375、狗也有强迫症？

Canine Compulsive Disorder 狗也有强迫症？ Yal: Your dog Raphine sure to be seemed to be lick ing his legs excessive . Is he Ok? Don: Its nothing! Y: Im afraid not, Don. Raphine may have what animal behaviorists call canine compulsive disorder

英语听力文摘 English Digest 435、你怕了吗？

The Anatomy of Fear One nice day youre walking along a wooded path. You come around a corner and there, coiled in the path, is a huge rattlesnake , its rattles abuzz. You are deathly afraid of snakes. Various parts of the brain signal the nervous sys

英语听力文摘 English Digest 139、动物会哭吗？

Do other animals besides humans cry? All animals with mobile eyes are equipped with a tearing system that keeps their eyes lubricated, protecting their eyes from the elements and so on. People tell tales of animals such as elephants and dogs weeping

《荒野求生》之跟着贝尔去冒险第6期:致命武器

I have the element of surprise,but the reindeer can run 10 times faster than me. 我占了突袭的先机 但驯鹿的速度比我要快10倍 My advantage will be over in a few short seconds. 我的优势在几秒内就将遗失殆尽 The herd is pan