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They Did It With Mirrors! You can’t stand in front of the paintings of the old masters and not wonder, how did 1) Frans Hals make that lace seem so real? How did 2) Van Dyck make his armor so gleami

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随着平静岁月的流逝，维多利亚美丽的容颜开始渐褪；他似乎觉得她年轻时的成熟思想也开始变得不再锋芒毕露，就像果实在树上挂得过久。他意识到自从他第一次见到她，她从来没有改变过

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Action English 动感英语 （22） Movie dictionary 电影词典 tragedy 悲剧；comedy 喜剧 American slang 美国俚语 make a crack about 因为...取笑 Some kids made a crack about her clothes （片中） e.g. Frank's new hat looks kind of stupid , but don't make an

SSS 2008-06-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. For women who are rather well-endowed, working out can sometimes be, well, a bit of a pain. Finding a good sports bra is key, now new research on breast

SSS 2009-07-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin . This will just take a minute. When you get caught in a downpour, you probably dont think about the size of the raindrops that assault you as you run for cover. But physicists do. And

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1. How Can You Tell if You Have Flat Feet? 如何辨别你是否是平底足？ Most people have an arch in their foot that can easily be seen from the side. In contrast, someone who has been born with flat feet will have little to no discernible arc

大家想做却不说的7件事

1. What if I just got naked and started screaming at people? 1、如果我全身脱光并对人们大声尖叫，结果会如何？ Although the details always change slightly, there is undeniably this incredibly weird little voice which lives inside

AP 2012-02-15

1. The Los Angeles coroner's office says an autopsy will be performed on Whitney Houston. The 48-year-old singer was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel room Saturday. She was also mourned Sunday at the church her family attended in Newark, New Jersey.

面试英语辅导：AboutInterviews

It worked! The cover letter,the resume,the research,the prayers - it's all come together,you've got the interview. Not the job,just the interview. Now all you have to do is go face-to-face with some super-important suit and persuade him that you're t

To Move Mountains

Taihang and Wangwu are two mountains covering an area of seven hundred square li and rising up to a great height of thousands of meters．They were originally situated south of Jizhou and north of Heyang．North of the mountains lived an old man call

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Whether they were meant to flaunt your breasts - or hide them - the first bras date back to ancient times, and like most fashions, they reflect the social and economic changes of that era. 无论最初是为了显摆胸形亦或是为了隐藏，最初

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Plenty of us have spent time sweating it out at the gym, doing sit-ups and crunches til our muscles cramp, with the aim of getting washboard abs. 为了练出搓衣板般健壮的腹肌，很多人都曾在健身大汗淋漓地做仰卧起坐和卷腹运

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It worked! The cover letter, the resume, the research, the prayers - it's all come together, you've got the interview. Not the job, just the interview. 兴奋吗？紧张吗？还是心里没底、忐忑不安？Now all you have to do is go face-to-f

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When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prims warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day

【饥饿游戏】51

Chapter 13 My first impulse is to scramble from the tree, but Im belted in. Somehow my fumbling fingers release the buckle and I fall to the ground in a heap, still snarled in my sleeping bag. Theres no time for any kind of packing. Fortunately, my b

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Do feet really get bigger with age? 脚会一直随着年龄长大吗？ It's certainly possible: After years of wear and tear,tendons and ligaments in your feet may weaken. 这是有可能的：经过多年的磨损，脚部的肌腱和韧带会有损