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AS IT IS 2015-12-30 What's Trending? #HoverboardFails Hoverboards were among the most popular Christmas gifts of 2015. They may have also been most dangerous gifts of 2015. A true hoverboard looks like a skateboard without wheels. To hover means to f

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(475) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:back to the drawing board。A drawing board是制图板。Back to the drawing board的字面意思是回到制图板去,实际上它的意思是从头开始。 我们都知道,盖房子或制造机器的

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Mike Procter. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 The year was 1707. The English shi

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 环球英语 Spotlight

Jupiter and Venus Squeeze Earth's Orbit The Sun exerts an enormous and obvious influence on the Earth, with its gravity and light. But other bodies also have a small say in our affairs. 太阳用其重力和光线对地球产生巨大而明显的影响

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年科学美国人5月

Idiom: On board 达成统一的认识,全部支持 Hit the book: Float Intention Turn down Volume Vastness Contemplation Spacewalking

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(148) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味青春英语

1. barometer /bəˈrɔmitə/ -- instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure as an aid in determining probable weather changes When the barometer indicates a rapid drop in air pressure, it means a storm is coming. 气压计显示出气压快速下降时

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 突破英文词汇

I found a place near him and waited without speaking. 我站在他旁边,我等候着,不说话。 Noon arrived, and just as on the day before, the sun didn't put in an appearance. 正午到了,跟昨天一样,太阳不出来。 It was sheer

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物

Breakfast over, I made my way ashore. 早餐完了,我就到地上去。 The Nautilus had gone a few more miles during the night. 诺第留斯号在夜间又向上前进了好几海里。 It lay well out, a good league from the coast, which was cro

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物

I held the chronometer. 我手拿着航海时计。 My heart was pounding mightily. If the lower half of the sun's disk disappeared just as the chronometer said noon, we were right at the pole. 我的心跳得厉害。如果太阳轮盘的一半隐没的

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物

Youve given some thought to oxygen, carbon, uranium. But youve probably never mused about the element ytterbium, symbol Yb. A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, says that ytterbium could find a rol

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(八)月

英语新词:这些meter后缀单词 你理解对了么? anemometer n. 风力计,[气象] 风速计。 audiometer n. [耳鼻喉] 听度计,听力表;测听计;音响测定器。 barometer n. [气象] 气压计;晴雨表;显示变化的事物

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

The Minister of Education sacked the Board of Trustees at Moerewa School yesterday. This is a small rural Northland school which used to offer classes from Years 1 to 10 but in the last three years has had about 25 students altogether in Years 11, 12

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

He was by no means ill-looking; quite the contrary. 他是一个精力充沛的人,像古埃及人那样有感染力。仿佛他会以这副模样永生! His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with in

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记

chiromancy n.手相术 chirp v.(鸟或虫)唧唧叫 chivalrous adj.武士精神的,侠义的 chivalry n.骑士制度 choleric a.易怒的,暴躁的 chop n.(用斧头等)砍,(风)突然改

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 GRE英语

今天还是要继续讲在大选期间新闻界常用来报道竞选运动的两个习惯用语。今天要说的习惯用语来自《纽约时报》上的同一篇文章,这篇文章报导的是2000年大选的总统候选人戈尔选定参议员利

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Facebook announced Thursday that Netflix CEO and Chairman Reed Hastings has joined the social network company's board of directors. Hastings, who successfully managed Netflix through an IPO in 2002, is expected to p

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The United States and Britain are planning to form a joint national security council, designed to allow the two allies close cooperation in dealing with security challenges. The two are expected to officially announce the creation of the new National

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The official establishment of the New Third Board, a national share transfer system for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), was announced Wednesday, after years of trials in several cities. The move marks another

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

There was nothing to be seen. Not a reef, not an islet. No more Abraham Lincoln. A deserted immenseness. 我们望不见什么。望不见暗礁,望不见小岛。林肯号不见了;望见的只是一片汪洋的海水。 Raising his sextant, Cap

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(172) / 评论(0) 分类 《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物

The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. 裴廓德号的大副叫斯达巴克,他是个南塔开特土著,也是个桂克的后代。 He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seeme

发表于:2019-03-10 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记
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-engined
a pretty hash of
abscess of upper palate
airline ticket
akiyoshi dai
analyticss
Anwars
bag silo
broken fibres
caled
cambium ring
causest
changing lanes
chikhat (egypt)
claspette
classification of diseases
Collector of Stamp Revenue
composite type concrete pavement
constitutional types
contact grill
container-shipping
cortinarius mutabiliss
creaselines
Daphne cneorum
debeaker
defocus effect
delimiter
dewatering efficiency
dry bond strength
edge in
elbow-bending
Ernest Solvay
external reference
false pareira
fire coral
fogelsonger
forced-air blast
Gauvain's Fluid
gnat's piss
goods exported under special license
grass-flower
guest climatic qi
gun rights
hajib
Hepatyrix
high tension switch cabinet
HIV-1gp160
hsiang kang
hull borne draft
hydraulic cupola hoist
incestophobic
intermediate point
internal-external expectation
interstitial
jumbie beads
khakanate
khil khuur
knot tendency
Kyphosus
lays on
lilium tenifolium fisch.
loss of underground water
maintaining power device
mug shot
nasal dyspnea
nodal diaphragm
nonvolatile flash memory
ostensiveness
outer addendum
PEComa
Penh
phallused
phone books
plague bacillus
platels
play one's cards right
power grid
push the envelope
radiocardiography
Red Ridinghood
replacement selection sorting
self-evident truths
spiderlike
strombus urceus
terneuzens
Therien
travelogues
tray gradient
tronometer
twinscrew
two-phased
ultrasonic inspection
uncluing
underground glory hole method
unkid
us china
vector equation of position of mechanism
water-dragon
whole-cells
whorf
wind-taut
zircon slurry