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Life Grows in the Soil of Time by Thomas Mann What I believe, what I value most, is transitoriness. But is not transitoriness - the perishableness of life - something very sad? No! It is the very soul of existence. It imparts value, dignity, interest

英语笑话：rubber 安全套

rubber Guess what the penis said to the rubber. The answer is Cover me. I'm going in. Notes: 1. Guess what the penis said to the rubber. 猜猜小弟弟会跟安全套说什么。 penis的口语别称有dick, peter, tool,所以在美国的年轻一辈

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本讲为2006年下半年新的教学内容，请对照讲义听声音！ Students(researcher/scholar) of Nature are not satisfied with guessing, but they observe, day after day, the changes which tak

超级简单英语阅读:Red Rubber Ball

Fred had a red rubber ball. He kicked the ball. It flew through the air. He picked it up. He threw it against a wall. The ball came back to Fred. He kicked it with his foot again. The ball flew over the wall. He picked it up again. He bounced it on t

学个词Learn a Word 第646期 Rubber stamp

今天我们要学的词是rubber stamp。 Rubber stamp, 橡皮图章，是不经过考虑就予以批准的意思，带有贬义。 The owner makes all the decisions, and the board is just a rubber stamp, 凡事都是老板作主，董事会只是一个

<词海拾贝>Rubber Game：决胜局

在排球、乒乓球等比赛中，经常会出现双方前几场持平，最后“一局定输赢”的情况。在英语中，“决胜局”就叫做rubber game。 为什么要用rubber来表示“打

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Sunflower Rubber

AGRICULTURE REPORT – June 18, 2002: Sunflower Rubber By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. Many farmers grow sunflower plants. The tall plants produce beautiful flowers

VOA标准英语2012--Light Bulb Inventor Tried to Create Fake Rubber

Light Bulb Inventor Tried to Create Fake Rubber At the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, the prolific American inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison developed devices that changed industry, communication, and everyday life - from a practical

美国习惯用语:355 the rubber chicken circuit

今天我们要讲几个在美国总统大选的竞选阶段常会用到的习惯用语。美国总统大选每四年举行一次。在大选年的前一年,准备竞争本党总统候选人提名的人士就已经在各州积极展开竞选活动了，

TED演讲:怎样选择适合你的防晒霜(1)

Sunscreen comes in many forms, each with its own impacts on your body and the environment. 防晒霜有很多种，每种对你的身体和环境影响各有不同。 With so many options, how do you choose which sunscreen is best for you? 有了这么

李克强总理鼓励科技创新

Premier Li Keqiang says China should consider science and technology as a primary productive force. Scientific and technological innovation to a large extent determines the future of China's development strategy. In history, we have missed several te

生活大爆炸第一季第十三集_2：The Bat Jar Conjecture

-Sheldon：Leonard, excellent. I want to show you something. excellent：太好了 Leonard太好了，我想让你看点东西。 -Leonard：Can it wait? I need to talk to you. 能等一会吗，我们得谈谈。 -Sheldon：Just look. I've designed

万物简史 第471期:生命在前进(13)

Sprigg submitted a paper to Nature, but it was turned down. 斯普里格给《自然》杂志写了一篇论文，但是没有被采用。 He read it instead at the next annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement

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Although chemistry had come a long way in the century that separated Newton and Boyle from Scheele and Priestley and Henry Cavendish, it still had a long way to go. Right up to the closing years of the eighteenth century (and in Priestley's case a li

China reviews anti-dumping measures on Japanese chloroprene rubber

BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- China on Wednesday started to review anti-dumping measures it imposed on chloroprene rubber imported from a Japanese company, the Ministry of Commerce said. The move came after the ministry received complaints that Japan E

CCTV9英语新闻：2013北京空气质量没有改善

Despite pledges in the last year to fight pollution, Beijing saw barely any improvement in air quality in 2013. The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau says the intensity of major air pollutants remained much the same in 2013 as they were in the

康宁发布第五代Gorilla Glass玻璃 手机屏幕将更耐摔

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Work begins this month on a new, environmentally-friendly power plant in Liberia that will use old rubber trees to generate electricity. It is part of a plan to make Liberia the world's first sustainable biomass-driven economy. Natural rubber has an

万物简史 第219期:把铅撵出去(8)

Finally, and perhaps a little unexpectedly, readings can be thrown out by seemingly unrelated external factorssuch as the diets of those whose bones are being tested. One recent case involved the long-running debate over whether syphilis originated i

Sweet Bait Lures Malaria Mosquitoes

Israeli(以色列) researchers say they have developed a powerful bait that effectively attracts and kills malaria-infected mosquitoes but is completely harmless to humans and other animals. The toxic sugar bait developed by scientists at Hebrew Univ