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CAROL: I never understand why these shops have so much liquor. JOHN: What do you mean? It's because it's much cheaper to buy liquor duty-free. CAROL: But why? Why don't people like to buy shirts duty-free? Or shoes? I just don't understand why it

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

当心您的爱车成为细菌的温床

Do you know so many of you will climb into your cars today perhaps to shuffle your children to soccer, to football, make their (refer to the cars) run to the grocery store. But do you also know what's

天方夜谭英文故事：The Enchanted Horse

The people were rejoicing in Shiraz, Persia. They were happily celebrating the feast of the New Year. That day the Sultan had arranged for great fairs and festivals in the main square of the city. The Sultan sat on his throne and watched his subjects

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Once a young man from India was flying around the world on a magical horse. He landed on a palace of the Persian Sultan. The Sultan was an adventurous person. So he was always attracted by strange feats. He wondered when he saw a young man on the hor

SSS 2011-08-30

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Smart phones can provide music, movie times, bus schedules. They can even make phone calls! And now, they might help cut down fuel use while driving. T

幽默笑话:好心帮忙

幽默笑话:好心帮忙 Creighton was going along a square when he saw a little boy trying to reach the knocker of a large house. 当克莱顿教授沿着一个广场走着的时候，他看见一个小家伙正试图抓住一所大房子的门环。

CNN 2010-10-03

Declassify US government documents and witness testimony from former or retired US military personnel confirm beyong any doubt the reality of ongoing UFO incursions at nuclear weapon sites. When I say UFO, the witnesses have described this craft as d

SSS 2009-01-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. When we think about how to represent sound visually, most of us probably picture those volume-dependent sine waves. But thats not how John Stuart Reid

SSS 2010-01-12

If youve ever had a garden or grown flowers in a window box, youve probably heard that you shouldnt water your plants at high noon because their leaves might scorch. Now a study in a journal called New Phytologist confirms that water droplets can foc

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2016-8-08

This is AP news minute. 1. The Olympic flame stopping Friday at Rio's most famous landmark, the Christ the Redeemer statue. At journey's end, the flame will be used to light the Olympic cauldron at the 2016 summer games opening ceremony. 2. Despite t

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TED演讲 :飞向海洋(5)

You see the larger wing area here. 你们可以看到这儿有面积更大的翅膀。 Also, clearly, it was such a powerful thing,we wanted to try and bring other people but we couldn't figure out how to do it. 而且，这还是件很有影响力的事

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The old remain, said Aggo. The frightened, the weak, and the sick. And we who swore. We remain. 老人们留了下来，阿戈说，还有胆小鬼、弱者和病夫，以及发过誓的我们。我们决不离开您。 They took Khal Drogo's herds,

TED演讲:月亮的错觉(2)

For one thing, if this was just the Ebbinghaus effect, 首先，如果真是艾宾浩斯效应， then we would expect the moon illusion to disappear for pilots flying high above the clouds 那么我们应该预期月球错觉对于空中的飞行员来

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Subject : Our laundry is round the clock. 第一， 迷你对话 A: Excuse me, when do you close down? 打搅一下，请问你们什么时候关门？ B: Our laundry is round the clock. 我们洗衣店是24小时服务的。 第二，地道表达 ro

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In 2011 Hector Levesque of the University of Toronto became annoyed by systems that passed the Turing Test by joking and avoiding direct answers. 2011年多伦多大学Hector Levesque对那些靠开玩笑和不直接回答问题通过图灵测试的系

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Her supper was a simple meal of fruit and cheese and fry bread, with a jug of honeyed wine to wash it down. 她的晚餐很简单，只是水果、乳酪和炸面包，配上一壶蜜酒。 Doreah, stay and eat with me, Dany commanded when she sent h

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In 1931, the King of England came to Birmingham. He stood on a soapbox in Bull Ring Market and spoke to his people. Actually, he wasnt the King of England at all. His name was Anthony Hall. He had been born in London, and had been an ambulance driver

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Then come with me, Sigurd, and I will give you the sword. 跟我来，西格德，我把剑给你。 Taking the weapon from the chest in which it lay, she handed it to the eager boy. 母亲从放武器的箱子里拿出来递给了西格德。 When S