The COMETICS

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SSS 2010-07-16

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute？ Whaddya get when you cross a planet with a comet? Well, HD 209458b looks like a candidate. Its a gas giant planet also called Osiris, and its orbiting so close to its st

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The Fourth of July fireworks started early. Scientists wearing red-and-blue shirts jumped up and down at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here in California, upon receiving word from 83 million miles away that a comet had smashed into a NASA probe. The

掉进水里也能浮在水面的手机

More than 82 millions phones are damaged each year after being dropped down the toilet, into swimming pools or lost at the beach. 每年都有超过8200万部手机因为掉进厕所、泳池或在海滩上丢失而损坏。 A number of waterproof ha

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今天我们要学的词儿是impact。 Impact是影响、作用的意思。美国总统布什宣布对苏丹政府实施新的制裁。美国官员说，The sanctions will have a serious impact. 意思是制裁会产生重大影响。发展旅游业的

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2006年VOA标准英语-US Space Capsule Returns Comet Dust for St

VOA,VOA标准英语,Washington,NASA,capsule,By David McAlary Washington 15 January 2006 Tom Duxbury, Stardust Project Manager for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, answers questions during a news conference after the landing of the Stardust capsule A

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US Space Probe to Reveal Comet's Secrets 美国航天探测器揭示彗星状况 A U.S. spacecraft is completing afive-and-a-halfmonth voyage to a distant comet and could create celestial fireworks wh

强调句的结构

常考的强调句结构是it 引导的句子。 It is (was) 被强调部分+ that (who) + 句子其他部分。 此结构强调的成分仅限于主语，宾语和状语。 It is from the sun that we get light and heat. It was not until I had read y

英语歌曲:Second Chance

Second Chance Shinedown My eyes are open wide By the way I made it through the day I watch the world outside By the way I'm leaving out today I just saw Haley's Comet, she waved Said, Why are you always running in place? Even the man in the moon disa

英语脑筋急转弯 你猜对了几个？

1. What will you break once you say it? （什么东西一说出来就打破？） 2. Will liars be honest after they die? （骗子死了之后会诚实吗？） 3. What always goes up and never goes down? （什么东西只升不降？） 4. Why di

NASA's Stardust spacecraft ends 12-year operation

WASHINGTON, March 25 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Stardust spacecraft(宇宙飞船) depleted fuel and ceased operation on Thursday after a 12-year run, the U.S. space agency said Friday. This is the end of the spacecraft's operations, but really just the begin

老外不懂的“中式英语”如何翻译

1. 有他这颗扫帚星，什么事情都办不成。 [误] With a comet like him, nothing can be accomplished. [正] With a jinx like him, nothing can be accomplished. 注：扫帚星是中国人对慧星（comet）的俗称，因其后面拖着一条

“中国特色”表达的英语翻译辨析

1. 有他这颗扫帚星，什么事情都办不成。 [误] With a comet like him, nothing can be accomplished. [正] With a jinx like him, nothing can be accomplished. 注：扫帚星是中国人对慧星（comet）的俗称，因其后面拖着一条

英语美文：悠扬的琴声

When Dad played his fiddle, the world became a bright star. To him violin was an instrument of faith, hope and charity. At least a thousand times, my mother said, Your papa would play his fiddle if the world was about to blow up. 每当爸爸拉起小提