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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

110 Killing is no solution p.258

Two Australians, Mack and Jill, are camping on Kangaroo Island. M: Look! There's a koala hugging a tree. They're really so cute. Jill, why are you crying? J: The government's planning on killing them

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With Camarasaurus, it's operating purely by instinct. 对于圆顶龙它完全靠本能行动。 They also discovered that the Camarasaurus would have sent out a distress call which Allosaurus would pick up and recognize. 人们还发现圆顶龙会发

That arn computer well is important.

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

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Where once only salt miners traveled, today, tourists track through tunnels hundreds of feet deep into the caverns of Zipaquir mountain in Colombia. Their destination, a Catholic cathedral carved from the mineral deposits of the old mine. More than 1

4.4 The joy of spring 春之喜悦

I am Jolly Joy, and I?m a happiness! But you, as a human, might know of me as simply, ?sunflower?. Little do you know that we flowers have our own identities and souls, for indeed we do, along with divine purpose and goals, albeit our goals are much

美国习惯用语:547 salt away

我们今天要学的习惯用语都包括这样一个关键词汇，salt。 Salt这个词大家都熟，是盐。人们在生活中少不了它，一切活细胞也都需要它，人们意识到盐的重要性已经有好几个世纪了，所以由s

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

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I hold myself the grand reformer of the age. 我自认是这一时代了不起的改革家。 From my spout, and such spouts as mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of a vast portion of its crime and anguish, 从我的喷嘴或姑且

中英双语新闻——54 Exposed: canteen rules

Although the price of a bowl of Lanzhou noodles has soared to over 10 yuan in restaurants, you can still get a bowl for 4.5 yuan at college canteens. 尽管饭馆里的兰州拉面已经飞涨到了每碗10块钱以上，但在大学食堂你仍然可以

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

Taste for Hard Cider Grows in US

MIDDLEBURY, Vermont More Americans are quenching their thirst with hard cider. In 2011, U.S. sales of the alcoholic beverage made of fermented apple juice were up 20 percent over the previous year, according to the U.S.-based Beer Institute. There we

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

万物简史 第132期:基本物质(4)

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

【荆棘鸟】第六章 20

There was no way she could come to terms with death; she lay night after night in a confused terror, trying to imagine if death was perpetual night, or an abyss of flames she had to jump over to reach the golden fields on the far side, or a sphere li

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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

从salt到salary : 词汇"salt"变奏曲

从柴米油盐说起 中国人用柴米油盐酱醋茶概括了生活所必须的点滴琐事，所以，一说起柴米油盐，说汉语的人头脑中第一印象就是过日子。 其实不只是中国人，全人类又何尝不是如此呢？不同

英语听力精选进阶版 6367

For over 7,000 years, Asians have been brewing beer. But it's only in the past few years that Asia has overtaken Europe and America to become the world's biggest beer-drinking continent. With an increasingly young and upwardly mobile population, ther

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