听电影学英语-好运之人 11

[00:02.78]I'm gonna go to Vegas with you guys, 我和你们直接去维加斯 [00:05.46]I'm gonna borrow some money off my credit card, 然后用信用卡借点钱 [00:07.26]and I'm gonna turn it into $20,000. 赚两万美金回来 [00:07.74]Oh, you

Wild Europe - Genesis 肇始之初- 6

Parts of Pangaea were periodically flooded by shallow seas. But time and again this water evaporated, leaving layer upon layer of salt. Today these massive deposits lie buried deep beneath the Netherl

事实：怎样命名一只章鱼-How To Name An Octopus

Pre-Listening Vocabulary binomial nomenclature: a two-part system for naming species (e.g., Panthera tigris) genus: a subdivision of a family of organisms (e.g., Panthera is the genus for tigers, lions and leopards, and a subdivision of the Felidae f

国家地理-2008-08-04 海湾地区重兴珍珠采集业

Tucked away in the United Arab Emirates northernmost region, a very delicate experiment is underway to bring some luster back to the regions pearl industry. Since 2005, one company has been cultivating pearls commercially, the first such modern oper

国家地理-2008-06-21 China's Amazing Flowers 繁花似锦的中国

China has more plants than anywhere else in the temperate regions of the world. In fact, it has almost twice as many kinds of plants as there are in the United States which is about the same size and about three times as many as there are in Europe.

英语听书《海底两万里》第497期 第31章 章鱼(5)

Its slanting fins drew it to depths of 2,000 and 3,500 meters. 船的纵斜机板把船带到了2000至3500米的深海中。 There animal life was represented by nothing more than sea lilies, starfish, 在那里，有生命的动物就只有海百合、

英语听书《海底两万里》第503期 第31章 章鱼(11)

I stared in my turn and couldn't keep back a movement of revulsion. 我上前一看，忍不住感到一阵恶心。 Before my eyes there quivered a horrible monster worthy of a place among the most farfetched teratological legends. 在我的眼前，游

SSS 2012-06-07

Sometimes women and men break a nail working on a tough task. Because our keratin claws are no match for the club-like appendages of a critter called the peacock mantis shrimp. They can hammer through crab exoskeletons and even mollusk shells to find

英语听书《海底两万里》第331期 第23章 珊瑚王国(28)

Just then a huge cave opened up in our path, hollowed from a picturesque pile of rocks whose smooth heights were completely hung with underwater flora. 这时候，我们面前现出一个宽大的石洞，洞在满铺各种海底花草的岩石堆中。

英语听书《海底两万里》第68期 第6章 开足马力(10)

While I was observing this phenomenal creature, two jets of steam and water sprang from its blowholes and rose to an altitude of forty meters, 当我观察这只奇怪动物的时候，两道水和汽从它的鼻孔吐出来，直喷到叫十米的高度

英语听书《海底两万里》第40期 第4章 尼德兰(9)

Even less likely, Ned. The devilfish is merely a mollusk, and even this name hints at its semiliquid flesh, because it's Latin meaning soft one. 尼德兰，那更不对了。章鱼是软体动物，单是这个名字就已经表明它的肌肉一点也

英语听书《海底两万里》第311期 第23章 珊瑚王国(8)

The light from our glass coils produced magical effects at times, lingering on the wrinkled roughness of some natural arch, 我们的蛇形玻璃管中的光学，照在这些天然的凹凸不平的拱形建筑物上面， or some overhang suspended

英语听书《海底两万里》第160期 第11章 诺第留斯号(11)

In the middle of the lounge, a jet of water, electrically lit, fell back into a basin made from a single giant clam. 在大厅中间，有一个喷泉。水受电光的照耀，重又落在单由一片大贝壳制成的环形水池中。 The delicate

英语听书《海底两万里》第161期 第11章 诺第留斯号(12)

In the first group: organ-pipe coral, gorgonian coral arranged into fan shapes, soft sponges from Syria, isis coral from the Molucca Islands, sea-pen coral, wonderful coral of the genus Virgularia from the waters of Norway, various coral of the genus

托福听力分类场景词汇—动物类

托福听力背景知识：托福听力中有大量的专业及学术词汇，这些词汇大多依托于听力背景知识，如果考生能够事先了解一些托福听力的背景知识，对听懂听力对话及段子有很有帮助。 Darvinism

英语听书《海底两万里》第197期 第14章 黑潮暖流(11)

A triggerfish, I said. 是一条箭鱼。我于是说了。 It's a Chinese triggerfish, Ned Land replied. 尼德兰回答：是一条中国箭鱼。 Genus Balistes, family Scleroderma, order Plectognatha, Conseil muttered. 康塞尔于是低声说：箭

英语听书《海底两万里》第222期 第17章 海底森林(3)

There I saw again, but not yet pressed and dried like the Nautilus's specimens, some peacock's tails spread open like fans to stir up a cooling breeze, scarlet rosetangle, 我在这里又看到的，不是像在诺第留斯号船上风干的标本，而

万物简史 第522期:丰富多彩的生命(18)

At intervals it hands down decrees, declaring that Zauschneria californica (a common plant in rock gardens) 它不时下达命令，宣布从今以后加州倒挂金钟（一种普通的假山庭园植物） is to be known henceforth as Epilobium can

【英语时差8,16】蜗牛（上）

No matter the species, mating rituals are pretty weird. Take the praying mantis. After an intimate tryst, the female mantis bites its partners head off. But when it comes to sexual hijinks, nothing beats the garden snail. During sex, garden snails of

万物简史 第525期:丰富多彩的生命(21)

Goodness knows what the results would be if anyone attempted a similar exercise with the planet's estimated 20,000 types of lichens, 50,000 species of mollusk, or 400,000-plus beetles. 要是有人试图对这颗行星上的大约2万种地衣、5万多