Artistic Impressions Degas’ World

Here Degas shows a couple in a café staring out 1) disconsolately, with a glass of the 2) deadly green 3) absinthe on the table in front of the woman. Degas’ friend Monet painted a dandish male abs

大学英语精读第四册 Unit Three:Why Do We Believe That the Ear

Text Can you prove that the earth is round? Go ahead and try! Will you rely on your senses or will you have to draw on the opinions of experts? WHY DO WE BELIEVE THAT THE EARTH IS ROUND? George Orwell Somewhere or other — I think it is in the prefa

伊拉克贫困依旧

Quality of Life in Iraq Still Poor 伊拉克贫困依旧 Virginia-based Dr. Ali Al-Attar left his native Iraq at the onset of Iran-Iraq war. At that time, he says, most Iraqis lived a middle-class lif

NPR 2010-01-21

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. A huge aftershock rocked Port-au-Prince, Haiti today. Frightened people ran screamingly into the streets. NPR's Carrie Kahn is in the Haitian capital and says people won't be able to take refuge in dama

10-9 遥远的同时代人：伊曼纽尔·康德

Distant Contemporary :Immanuel Kant A small man , a big mind: Immanuel Kant revolutionized philosophy, questioned established authorities and placed reason and freedom at the centre of his thinking .K

英语语法：84 Sentence Length

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is sentence length. This episode was written by guest writer, Bonnie Trenga, author of The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier. I was glad to hear from those of you who enjoyed Bonnie's writing last week. I'll be b

琴匣子中的生趣

Life in a Violin Case By Alexander Bloch In order to tell what I believe, I must briefly sketch something of my personal history. The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, althoug

The Loch Ness Monster

Loch Ness monster Callum: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Callum Robertson and joining metoday is Kate, hello Kate. Kate: Hello Callum. Callum: Now Kate, something which we both have in common is that we are bothScottish, though you couldn

尼泊尔震后重新开放古建筑

AS IT IS 2015-06-16 After Quake, Nepal Reopens Centuries-Old Structures 尼泊尔震后重新开放古建筑 Nepal has reopened its major World Heritage Sites in an effort to get tourists to return. Nepal depends heavily on money spent by overseas vi

2006年VOA标准英语-Zimbabwe Food Security Remains Precarious

By Peta Thornycroft Harare 27 March 2006 James Murap stands in parched maize crops near Harare (File photo - Nov. 2, 2005) USAID's Famine Early Warning Systems Network, FEWSNET, has listed Zimbabwe as

雅思写作范文：广告对人的影响

Should widespread advertising be strictly limited in modern society? Some people claim that widespread advertising in the modern society has a harmful effect on young people. Therefore, advertisements should be strictly limited on TV, radio, the inte

Chavez to keep his presidency beyond Jan. 10

CARACAS, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- The just re-elected president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, in his address after his confirmation, said Saturday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will still be the President beyond January 1

卡梅伦：乌克兰局势仍然“非常不稳定”

卡梅伦：乌克兰局势仍然非常不稳定 LONDON, March. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Ukrainian situation remains highly precarious, while the new Ukrainian government faces massive political and economic challenges, British Prime Minister David Cameron

Greece Renews Debt Talks with International Creditors

Greece has started a second round of talks with international creditors on its precarious financial plight, as there are new warning signs throughout Europe about the fallout from the continent's debt contagion. Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos t

乔布斯传 第427期:产品线评估(5)

The most visible decision he made was to kill, once and for all, the Newton, 乔布斯作的最高调的决定，就是彻底地扼杀牛顿项目， the personal digital assistant with the almost-good handwriting-recognition system. 就是那个带有

经济学人:印度的非银行金融 (2)

Few think that a liquidity crisis is the firm's only problem. Even when its credit was good, its projects had a nasty habit of busting their budgets. 少数人认为清偿危机是公司唯一的问题。即便公司信用良好，其项目也会习惯

Internacional beats Avai 3-1

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Under command of interim head coach Osmar Loss, Internacional came-from-behind on the road against Avai to win 3-1 in the 11th round of the Brazilian Championship on Thursday. The win snaps a three-game losing stre

职场女性遭遇“玻璃悬崖”

Glass ceiling（玻璃屋顶）一词讲的是女性在职场遇到的发展瓶颈，到了一定职位就很难再上升了。而这里谈到的glass cliff与glass ceiling有着千丝万缕的联系。 A glass cliff is a term coined by Prof Michelle

富有并非成功，追求精神上的满足

In order to tell what I believe, I must briefly sketch something of my personal history. 为了阐明我的信仰，我必须简单介绍一下我的经历。 The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and stu

Foreign coaches struggle in Chinese soccer league

GUANGZHOU, South China, April 13 (Xinhua) -- It could become the darkest night for some foreign coaches in Chinese Super League (CSL). The most famous three foreign coaches in CSL, Takeshi Okada, Jean Tigana and Henk ten Cate would spend an anxious w