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漫画家 Jim Toomey 创造的漫画《谢尔曼的泻湖》，从一个独特角度看水下生活的主角会说话的鲨鱼谢尔曼。Toomey在讲台上描画一些自己最喜欢的海洋生物，同时分享了他对海洋热爱和其中的一些

英语听力文摘 English Digest 595、恐惧闻起来像糖！

Fear Smells Like Sugar Scientists have suspected for many years that fish might give off a chemical signal to warn other fish about the presence of predators. When a fish in a school is injured, for example, the rest of the school will panic and swim

摇滚:Something In The Way—Nirvana涅磐

英文歌词： Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals Ive trapped Have all become my pets And Im living off of grass And the drippings from the ceiling But its ok to eat fish Cause they havent any feelings Something in the way

美国国家公共电台 NPR James Comey Says FBI 'Would Be Worse Today' If Not For His Actions

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We've been questioning former FBI Director James Comey. He walked into our studios here last night. Hard to miss him in the lobby, the guy who's 6-foot-8. He wore a jacket but no tie. Comey writes in a new book that as FBI direct

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We have said this more than once this week. After James Comey's firing, there are still more questions than there are answers. Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska is still asking, why now. Our co-host, Steve Inskeep, sat dow

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Fish Blind Dates There are plenty of examples in nature of females being attracted to the biggest males. This is especially true for a species of fish called the Atlantic Mollie. The Mollie wants to be as big a fish as possible, because the females s

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One thing we're proud of here at A Moment of Science is that there isn't a lot of sex and violence on our program. Although, did you ever stop to wonder why sex and violence so often go hand in hand? How come nobody complains about violence and garde

英语听力文摘 English Digest 49、鱼喝水吗

Fish live in water, but do they drink it? The answer is yes, but how fish drink water depends on where they live. Water gets into a fish's body through osmosis, the process in which water diffuses from a higher to a lower concentration. For example,

英语听力文摘 English Digest 59、小孩,狗,青蛙和朋友

A Boy, A Dog, A Frog and A Friend by Mercer and Marianna Mayer 1 One day a boy went fishing with his dog and his frog.He sat by the side of a pond and patiently waited for a fish to bite. 2 All of a sudden he felt a bite! 3 It had to be a big fish be

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Pizza 比萨薄饼 Pizza has a bread-like crust that is covered with tomato sauce, cheese and vegetables or meat. History experts say the idea of using bread to hold other foods began with the Greeks. They ate flat breads baked with oil, garlic and o

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Mike was ready for bed. It was 11 oclock. He had to get up early the next day. The next day he was going fishing. Fish wake up early. They look for food early in the day. They look for food late in the day. The best time to fish is early or late in t

简单慢速英语阅读:Catch Some Fish

Lets go fishing, said the father. Thats a good idea, said the mother. They put the kids into the car. They put the fishing rods into the car. They put the jar of worms into the car. They drove to the lake. The lake was huge. The name of the lake was

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In my early days at Corrie he was like a surrogate dad to me and Alan. I'll never forget how he and Liz guided Alan and I through those first years on the programme. In fact my fussy was with Bill and assumed doctrines he made what could have been a

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Tuna fishermen in France are up in arms against a European Union decision to cut short their bluefin tuna season by two weeks - arguably depriving them of thousands of dollars in income. The decision was made because France had surpassed its tuna fi

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Djokovic Advances to Semifinals after Hard-Fought Match

TORONTO, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- In the most dramatic match played at the Rogers Cup tournament, Novak Djokovic managed to overpower veteran Tommy Haas 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in quarterfinals. Despite his valiant efforts, Haas, 34, the oldest player in the tourna

英语听力文摘 English Digest 315、脑白金到底是什么？

脑白金到底是什么？ 褪黑素，又名黑素细胞凝集素，俗称为脑白金，是存在于从藻类到人类等众多生物中的一种荷尔蒙，它在生物中的含量水平随每天的时间变化而变化。 Melatonin, sometimes ca

英语听力文摘 English Digest 165、Can Fish Smell?

Y: I noticed that fish have holes that look like nostrils, does that mean they can smell? D: Smell, or olfaction, as scientists call it, is an important sense for many fish. Those little holes that look like nostrils are called nares. Nares dont lead

英语听力文摘 English Digest 173、如鱼得水

D: OK, Yael, you want to build an aquatic robot,and you're trying to figure out the most efficient way to move it through water, what do you do? Y: I am guessing the answer isn't to build a robot using a lot of root-force to move forward? D: Anyone w

英语听力文摘 English Digest 208、棘螈

Acanthostega 这种生物已经演化出前后肢，但每肢都有８趾。这种生物是从鱼类进化到两栖类的过渡产物。而且，它具有更多的鱼类特征，如有鳃、鳍和只能在水中起作用的感官。伦敦自然历史博