音标:[nʌnz] ;
n. (通常指基督教的)修女, (佛教的)尼姑( nun的复数形式 )
n. a woman religious
n. a buoy resembling a cone
n. the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. In America theres a feeling of Christmas. But thats not the only winter holiday going on. Jews are lighting Hanukkah candles, Muslims recently feasted

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(181) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十二)月

So this whole interaction with self and identity was a very difficult one for me growing up. 在我成长过程中,我一直都很难处理自我与身份之间的相互影响。 The self that I attempted to take out into the world was rejected ove

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲娱乐篇

Prayerful Nuns Produce Heavenly Cheese Every day, at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, the 13 resident nuns gather for prayer. Theirs is a simple Christian life of worship and meditation. The sister

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Cirque du Soleil; Nuns Who Make Cheese; Music of Teens Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. On our show this week, we play some music suggested by a few iPod armed teenagers. We also explore cheese makin

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[00:08.70]Lesson 49 1.Read and act [00:14.94]Samuel,you don't look so well. [00:19.38]Are you feeling all right? [00:22.73]Not really,I have a bad headache. [00:27.90]You've been working too hard helping to stop the flood. [00:33.96]But there is so m

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Let's imagine that your amyloid plaques have reached that tipping point. 假设你的淀粉样斑块已经达到临界点。 Your scale arm has crashed to the floor. 你天平的一端已坠地。 You've tripped the cascade, setting fire to the fores

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How can this be? We think it's because these nuns had a high level of cognitive reserve, 这是怎么回事呢?我们认为这是因为这些修女拥有高级的认知储备, which is a way of saying that they had more functional synapses. 意味着

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US Nuns Stunned, Angered by Vatican Reprimand After a night on the street, dozens of homeless men and women file into a shelter in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring. A walk down the hall takes them to the cafeteria, where they get a hot breakfas

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(五月)

Mrs. Zubatsky's law. One day when I was a kid, our house caught on fire in Milwaukee. A large section of the wood shingle roof was burning as the fire trucks pulled up. The firemen ran into the back yard with a large hose and began assembling their m

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Across Europe, bankrupt municipalities are looking for new sources of revenue and some are eyeing the Catholic Church. In Spain, the church is the country's largest and richest landowner, but its non-profit status means it's exem

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The general store was the next-biggest building, also boasting a sheltering awning, and two long wooden benches under its cluttered windows for passersby to rest upon. There was a flagpole in front of the Masonic hall; from its top a tattered Union J

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During lesson breaks in the playground they walked with arms looped around each other's waists, which was the sign that you were best friends and not available for courting by anyone else. And they talked, talked, talked. One lunchtime Teresa took he

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So she sent the girl home and told her not to come back until her head was clean. I left her and Sister Declan and Sister Catherine looking through every head in the school, and there turned out to be a lot of lousy ones. Those three nuns were scratc

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羊群回到了它们正常的牧场上,克利里一家不得不学习内地午睡的习惯了。他们5点钟起床,中午之前把一切都安排妥贴,然后便大汗淋漓地倒身睡去,直到下午5点钟。在家的女人和围场上的男

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她实际上是个什么样的人,或者他认为她是个什么样的人? 哦,梅吉。他无能为力地说道。 她转过身来,凝视着他,尽管她很悲痛,还是向他投来了毫不掺假的、充满了爱的一笑。这是恣意纵

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这是一头又野又凶的牲口,它的圈棚被严格地建在圈地之外。梅吉对它怕得要命,从不到它附近的地方去。狗都关在窝里,拴着链子。在帕迪或鲍勃的监视下,狗的交配是以科学方法进行的,

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Don't sell that cow 别卖那头牛 The wise old Mother Superior was dying. The nuns gathered around her bed, trying to make her comfortable. They gave her some warm milk to drink, but she refused it. Then one nun took the glass back to the kitchen.

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At a small parish (教区)in rural New England there lived a priest, and several nuns. One day, one of the older nuns wasnoticing that the rugs (地毯,小垫子)in the church were beginning to fray(磨损). She went to the priest and tol

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God Will Pay the Bill 上帝会付账 A man was brought to the hospital, and taken quickly in for emergency surgery. The operation went well, and as the groggy man regained consciousness, he was reassured by a Sister of Mercy, who was waiting by his

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The summer before fifth grade, my world was turned upside down when my family moved from the country town where I was born and raised to a town near the beach. When school began, I found it difficult to be accepted by the kids in my class who seemed

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