美国俚语:nickel-and-dime 零打碎敲地长期消耗

dime是值十美分的硬币。 dime的价值虽然是nickel的两倍， 但是dime也只是一枚很小的硬币，而且dime跟 nickel相比是既小又薄，原因是过去曾经用比镍贵重得多的银子来铸造dime。 Nickel-and-dime既可以

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It's bad enough that mosquitoes suck our blood, and sometimes pass on disease. But there's more. They can actually give you a disease and pee on you at the same time. Adding insult to injury if you will. Jerod Denton, a pharmacologist at Vanderbilt U

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This is Scientific American Sixty Seconds Science, I'm Sophie Bushwick, got a minute? When Mexican tetra fish moved into darker caves long ago, they evolved to deal with the dark by becoming albino and going blind. A new research shows that the chang

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Fruit Vendor: Wait! Don't go just yet. These bananas are pretty cheap--only 35NT for this bunch. Robert: Now that's more like it! Bananas have lots of potassium, too! Fruit Vendor: They're also good for your digestion! Would you like some kiwis, too?

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Darwinian medicine - an approach to the treatment of infective diseases which takes account of the co-evolution between the host and its parasite. Deciduous - from the Latin

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美国俚语:Nickel and Dime Someone什么意思?

一个客户在电话线上和我就一笔生意讨价还价，硬要在我的报价上要砍掉一角钱，当时我和他据理力争，他说：I'm not trying to nickel and dime you. 我当时就冲口回答：I don't need your nickel and dime.（我

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Dietary Changes Help Lower Blood Pressure Sunday, April 7, is World Health Day, and this years theme is high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. The World Health Organization has recommended reducing salt or sodium intake to lower the risk of

2015年CRI China's Laboratory Safety Must be Highlighted, Improved

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The planet also began releasing oxygen, thanks to an ancient adoption of photosynthesis. A very ancestral primitive plant cell either engulfed or tried to digest or surrounded a cyanobaterium and instead of digesting it, it actually became an organ w

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 Superglue 强力胶 Male: Help！Help! Female:What's wrong？ M: I was fixing my coffee cup with superglue .And I must have got some on my fingers but I scratch my forhead.And now my hand is stuck to my head. F: Superglue ? Cool! What makes supergl

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Under normal circumstances, each of your brain cells allows various substances, such as sodium, calcium and potassium to permeate its outer cell membrane. Once inside the brain cell, these substances help give the cell stimulus it needs to function p

第213期:炎炎夏日,你为何需要一杯柠檬水

今天分享的是柠檬水的妙用。 重点词汇 immune system 免疫系统; potassium n.化钾; freshen vt.使新鲜; 使清爽，使有精神，把（自己）盥洗一番; 1. Gives your immune system a boost. 2. Excellent source of potassium.

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Sore heads the morning after the night before could become a thing of the past thanks to a 'revolutionary' new drink - designed to prevent HANGOVERS. 一种专为防止宿醉设计的革命性新饮品有望令宿醉第二天早上醒来后的头痛成

每天3只香蕉能降低中风风险

Eating three bananas cuts your risk of a stroke, scientists say. A banana for breakfast, one for lunch and one in the evening would provide enough potassium to reduce the chances of suffering a blood clot on the brain by around 21 per cent. 科学家称

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英语听书《海底两万里》第117期 第9章 尼德·兰的愤怒(2)

Although our cell was large, we obviously had used up most of the oxygen it contained. 虽然牢房还算宽大，但很明白，我们已经消耗掉了里面大部分氧气。 In essence, over an hour's time a single human being consumes all the ox

英语小达人 284 Nickel or Dime?

Nickel or Dime? 5分钱还是10分钱？ Little Johnny used to hang out at the local corner store. The owner didn't know what Johnny's problem was, but the older boys would constantly tease him. 小约翰尼过去常在街角的商店附近闲逛。店

万物简史 第212期:把铅撵出去(1)

10 Getting The Lead Out 第十章 把铅撵出去 In the late 1940s, a graduate student at the University of Chicago named Clair Patterson (who was, first name notwithstanding, an Iowa farm boy by origin) was using a new method of lead isotope measur