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Taiwan is located on the Pacific Rim of Fire. This means there are many underwater volcanoes nearby, and the area suffers from many earthquakes and other disasters. Yet, there is one good thing about living on the Pacific Rim of Fire: there are plent

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 常春藤生活英语

The temperature is in the single digits in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, but Cindy Lundin can't wait for her daily swim. I come down and soak in the pool, to, er, alleviate all the aches and pains that

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2006年

The cormorant gives up for now. The bird has been foiled by the clarity of the water, the very thing that enables the manatee to thrive. The light through these waters helps plants flourish, and manatees are strict vegetarians. They can eat a hundred

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2009年

By piecing together the evidence these creatures left behind, we can build a picture of this sub-tropical corner of the continent as it was 13,000 years ago. While most of North America was still in the grip of the Big Freeze, Florida was an ice age

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

Low-Lying Areas of New York City Suffer Flooding Sounds of sump pumps fill the air in low-lying areas of New York City. Don, a water systems professional in Brooklyn, has been on the job, pumping out basements since before dawn. He says the worst flo

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(十月)

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For decades, the Colorado River has fed growing cities from Denver to Los Angeles, and a lot of the produce in grocery stores across the country right now was grown with Colorado River water. Now with climate change and severe drou

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

Why does Florida have so many springs? Florida sits on a layer of porous limestone which acts as an underground reservoir or aquifer. This aquifer can absorb huge amounts of water. Where the pressure is great enough, springs bubble up, spewing up bil

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2009年

You've heard about them, and maybe seen them in movies as they [dict]smash[/dict] apart ocean liners, or wash whole cities into the sea. What causes[dict] tidal [/dict]waves, and how are they different from the ordinary waves that wash against our co

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

This triggered other dramatic changes. As sea levels dropped, so did the inland water tables. Florida's fresh water drained away through the porous limestone rock. Pools dried up and springs diminished. Florida was on the brink of drought. And animal

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2013年

(man) I know you're anxious to get your permits and get started. But there're just a few things I'd like to mention that might help you avoid trouble during your stay. First of all, make sure you carry adequate water. You'll need it if you're hiking

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 托福听力短文

This week has been a very busy time for Surf Lifeguards. The sea around many parts of New Zealand has been quite dangerous recently with high waves and rips. In the week since New Year, Surf Lifeguards at Papamoa beach in the Bay of Plenty rescued 37

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Free Falling 自由落体 Marg was no ordinary 84-year-old woman. She was a grandmother, a wife, and daredevil. There was nothing she wouldn't try once. This year was going to be the ultimate thrill. She was going to bungee jump from a bridge over 15

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小达人

As the migrating herds arrive in the plateaus river valleys, the spring is here. This is why they have made the journey after the famine of winter. Food is everywhere. Birds have flown in from as far away as the Arctic and subtropics. Canada geese jo

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 19 May 2008 Fuel efficient stoves and ceramic water purifiers are two examples of low-tech innovations that can help people in poor countries improve their quality of life. Because what is known as appropriate technology usu

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(五月)

The Relaxing Waters of Hot Springs National Park 阿肯色州温泉国家公园:放松的水域 Sometimes a visit to a national park means hiking rugged trails and climbing high mountains. Other times it means crawling through caves or rafting down a

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(九)月

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Scientists announced today that they have figured out the cause of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Flint, Mich., a few years ago. Twelve people died. This was at the start of the city's water crisis. And the problem was a l

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台2月

妈妈不在家时爸爸的西服、衬衫、羊毛衫要洗可遇到麻烦了,只能拿到干洗店里洗。看看爸爸是怎样和别人沟通干洗和湿洗的吧。 Listen Read Learn Laundryman: What can I do for you? Benjamin: I've got a suit, a woolen sweater and a white shirt to wash. Laundryman

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语大赢家

The living is easy. But it won't last long. At this altitude, the air is so dry that rain evaporates before it even hits the ground. The water that flows off the plateau is no longer being replaced. Already there is drought in forests beyond the mead

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

That nine hundred years is an averageand a somewhat misleading one. 900年是个平均数字也是个会让人产生错觉的数字。 According to Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel in Windows into the Earth, a geological history of the region, 罗伯特

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

本期内容: The greatest hate springs from the greatest love 最大的恨来自最大的爱 这里,我们重点学习一个单词 spring S-P-R-I-N-G spring 做名词有春天,弹簧和泉的意思 last Spring 去年春天 a brokenspring 换掉的

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 口语侠每日早读
学英语单词
abdominal pain due to stagnation of blood
acanticone
Adonis flower
Ariomma
arnwine
artificial boundary condition
auto reclosing operation
bakhita
bandage-box
baryta-coated photographic paper
Bisterin
boserups
Calaveras Res.
cargo manifest
chemical vapor
clench-fisted salute
cooling water piping
coordination link
direct-action fuze (da fuze)
electron coupled oscillator
epitomises
ergotica tabes
Faucigny
fellahin
fixate at
flocks and herds
fluoro-scandium-complex
fluviatile facies
frontotemporale
fructus citri aurantii
general census
godwinson
goshawful
helicogloea contorta
horsehair fungus
Ibaril
Indiga
ingress filtering
intransitivities
job progress report
Jujuboside
Katsina
kurzwell reading machine
lakhs
leave hanging
little old
Loughborough
lozoraitis
make trough with
man power
mare's nests
medicine-men
milonga
mortgage assets
mycotheca
ninety-
Nogales
nonpasserine birds
normal fixed quantity of materials stock
officer of the deck
operating statistics
organic brain syndrome
peer gynt
pluck by the beard
pointlike
power used in testing for acid
pyridine dicarboxylic acid
raedwalds
recchi
returns to scale of plant
rye meal
sakett
scara robot
screw-eye
second member
servoamp
sibbald
sling cart
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
splutterers
spring-driven
static plate
steel-belt
superfine writing
taborists
test/service default duration quantity
three-phase squirrel-cage motor
time table
Tolima, Dep.del
toposcopy
trading coach
transistorized circuitry
trigrammatically
unflooded
uni-servo brake
unitalicized
uromyces deeringiae
vibrating screen with out-of-balance drive
water condition
without any exception
Yuda-gawa
zinc coated