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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: As a possible summit approaches between President Trump and North Korea's leader, a poem that kids learn in school comes to mind. The poem says, in its entirety, so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

Knights in shining armor, charging each other in great pitched battles, that is the popular view of warfare in the Middle Ages. In reality, most medieval conflicts involved the attacking of castles, a

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 中世纪攻城战

In the year 1304, Edward Longshanks, more formally known as King Edward I of England, mounted the greatest siege of his reign against the Scots and their castle at Stirling. The attack dragged on. Imp

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Trebuchets began in the Far East, in China. But what they were there, were hand-pulled machines, worked by quite large teams of men.

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At the end of the 13th century, what was the effective range of an archer, and what was the effective range of a trebuchet. The historical reports differ.

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With the manuscript as a starting point, Wayne used a combination of engineering theory and trial and error to come up with a working model.

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But the throwing arm will be made from a more light-weight wood - Douglas fir. Wayne calculates that a tree trunk of at least 2 feet in diameter is needed to withstand the stresses of hurling 250-poun

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Renaud was left with no alternative but to hope that a couple of planks will be strong enough to splint the weakened throwing arm. Finally work starts on raising the great trestle s. With each passing

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Even with 12 timber framers pulling, the firing pin won't budge . It is quite normal that I mean the trigger first is stiff, we found that at home. It takes a lot of efforts which is as well as in som

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 中世纪攻城战

US Restaurant Serves Medieval Art of Fighting European martial arts, unlike popular Asian martial arts, are not widely practiced and are unknown to most people. But, a restaurant near Washington is the center of an effort to make the ancient fighting

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(四)月

...one, fire in the hole! Oh, yeah. Renaud’s optimism is justified. The missile falls just a few yards short of the wall and a bit to the right. The team decides to give it one more day. But the nex

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(151) / 评论(0) 分类 中世纪攻城战

Well it's gonna fit. Some point is gonna found. We're off the ground here. After last night's narrow miss,Wayne's trebuchet is repositioned to be more in line with the target. All we're doing is shift

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Come and take a look at the rocks over here. It just pulverize d the stone on the inside. It confirmed what we came here to prove, didn't it? We had a lovely hit smacking in the middle and it smashed

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 中世纪攻城战

In terms of the kind of dialogue that existed between attack and defense, it is very clear now to me that the appearance of trebuchet on the scene shifted that balance radically in favor of attack. It

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Rachel Smalley | London 21 December 2009 One of the exhibits at the Victoria and Albert Museum London's Victoria and Albert Museum claims to be the world's greatest museum of art and design. With artifacts dating back 3000 years, it has a collection

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(136) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十二月)

Chinese President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, in a telephone conversation late Wednesday that Beijing remains persistent on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. CRI's Yu Yang has more. During the phone conversation, X

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By Liu Enming New York 03 December 2007 New York City's Manhattan can at times seem all business and flashy pleasure, a burgeoning island of skyscrapers and fast-paced modern life. But there are hidden treasures of history and tranquility awaiting qu

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本文为大家准备了GRE词根词汇:ev,便于考生GRE备考。 ev = age 年龄,寿命,时代,时期 471. longevity〔 long 长,ev 年龄,寿命,-ity 名词后缀」长寿,长命472. longevous〔 long 长, ev 寿命,-ous 形容

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又到一年毕业季,你准备好踏入社会的大门了吗?你设想过自己将要成为什么样的人吗?当人们向惠普公司前CEO卡莉费奥瑞娜询问职业生涯的意见时,她常常告诉大家,不要放弃你的内在本性

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(1607) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Centuries ago in the Middle Ages, religious scribes labored over lavishly illustrated books. Most of these illuminated manuscripts were made by anonymous artists. Now scientists say they have a new kind of evidence that could revea

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(162) / 评论(0) 分类 2019年NPR美国国家公共电台1月
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Albocacer
american sign language(asl)
arcuate, arcuated
armoirs
attitude alignment
Ayande
barbary pirates
bathmic evolution
beleaguering
block I-O
borrel
brattigan
center through plate
ceremoniality
chapter one
chels
close file
cloud software
colo(u)r carrier
commodity fair
cross joiner
curcumadiol
curry-favour
curtright
cutting marker
Cystiphyllidae
dismantling equipment
DSL filter
elbowing
eluding
faced time
fifty percents
fourth-grader
Franklin and Marshall College
free-knot
free-turbine engine
freight marketing
gonorrhoeic
gramineous plant
Grandducal
Gymnocarpeae
hash foundry
headpole
heel air gap
hemitrope twin
hhok
high-p
hyenic acid
interims
kinderdijk
lapped lay-up
laser spectrometry
laserless
lay sth out
Manchuroceras
meconopses
Monochronogenous
Nevskia
Novigam super
overage charge
pancreas endocrine islet-type
pancreatic duct (or wirsung's duct)
passage of arms
perifusion
permanent flash board
phlebothromboses
pitch control rod
pizza
pool rectifier
power of detention
profits and commissions insurance
propined
recipiangles
redressments
reflective light
rubberstamp
Schoenoplectus supinus
seed corm
simploce
skin analysor
snow break woods
star-producing region
superventricular tachycardia
swing slinger
symmetry of fabric
techonomic
the jaws
ticket collectors
time to impulse flashover
to come into force
trading instruction
transgressive trust
transition probability matrix
uncomment
unlimited flow
vapor seperator
vialle
waterpipes
weinhaus
wheel animal
whistler-type noise
whole body X-irradiation