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Lesson 1 The Holly 第一课 冬青 How nice it is at Christmas to see the branches of holly on the walls! How pretty the bright-red berries look against the shining dark-green leaves! 过圣诞节了，墙上挂起了冬青的树枝，小朋友们多高

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There's nothing in the world today that looks like a Stegosaurus. 如今地球上没有什么动物长得和剑龙相似。 And it just was so peculiar with that long cone-shaped head and this big curved back and these short front legs and long back

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Its first defense was its armored hips. 它的首要防护是有护甲的髋部。 One of the interesting things about Gastonia is it does have a big solid plate over its hips. 加斯顿龙有趣的事情之一是它髋部确实有一块大而结实的

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Armored dinosaurs would not become common until tens of millions of years after the Gastonia lived. 在加斯顿龙出现后数千万年后甲龙才变得普遍。 Paleontologist Dr. James Kirkland was called in to analyze the find. 古生物学家詹姆

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I find myself in crowds, audiences, mobs. Just as often I am alone, in a field, house, car, on a beach, in a grammar school in the middle of the night. I fear finding myself in a prison cell, an elevator full of people, the middle of a highway. I app

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As a purification ceremony, frankincense or copal may have been burnt in these huge brazier s depicting Tlaloc, the rain god. Most telling of all, the scientists found traces of albumen indicating the

Scientists Discover Fossil of Strange Sea Worm

Scientists found a prehistoric ancestor of an arrow worm among a group of fossils at two national parks in Canada. The fossils were found in what is now British Columbia, but was once an ocean. The sea worm was 10 centimeters long and had 50 spines o

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I have all my life wondered what mind-boggling meant. 我整整一生都在想，mind-boggling（令人难以置信的）到底是指什么。 After two days here, I declare myself boggled, and enormously impressed, 在这里呆了两天，我承认，

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Cactuses 仙人掌 Cactuses are very unique plants. 仙人掌是非常奇特的植物。 They live in hot and dry places like deserts. 它们生活在类似沙漠这样的炎热干旱地带。 They usually don't have leaves 它们通常没有叶子。

TED演讲:书的演变(2)

And what about font size and type? 那字的大小和字体呢？ The earliest movable type pieces consisted of reversed letters cast in relief on the ends of lead alloy stocks. 最早的活字是在铅铝坯料的一端铸造凸出的反字。 They

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现在，由于游牧官道已经从地图上消失，浪游者和本地居民的关系就和睦多了。 偶尔骑马而来，求一口啤酒，聊聊天，吃一顿家常便饭的牲口商是受欢迎的。有时，他们带着妇女，赶着由擦破

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She was a ship of the old school, rather small if anything; with an old-fashioned claw-footed look about her. 这是一条闯荡过世界各个大洋大海的老船， Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and calms of all four oceans, he

都错了?做仰卧起坐可能会对身体产生伤害

Many sportspeople do sit-ups as part of a raft of exercises which aim to improve their core stability, but research from Thomas Nesser from Indiana State University suggests that improving your core stability doesn't necessarily result in better athl

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Desert-survival guides dictate that the best way to avoid heat and dehydration is to travel by night. 沙漠生存指南中写道 避免高温炽热和脱水的最好办法 就是在夜间行进 But this rough terrain is scarred by deep, unpredictabl

《荒野求生》之跟着贝尔去冒险第129期:觅食的天堂

A really fresh blood like that,is so rich... 真正的新鲜血液 是很有营养的 minerals, vitamines, energy everything you need, to survie. 含有矿物质 维生素 能量 一切你生存所需要的东西 And so many nomads and tribes all ove

《荒野求生》之跟着贝尔去冒险第130期:汹涌的河流

This size of the spikes on this.I wanna get rid of all of these Bubs off first.Here we go. 这家伙的刺真长 首先我要把这些没用的东西砍掉 这样就好了 Okay, I'll let you see inside.All of the sand,and the guts.I don't want that. 我

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The Nautilus seemed to be standing still. This was due to the lack of landmarks. 诺第留斯号好像是不动了，这是因为水中没有标炽盼缘故。 But streaks of water, parted by the ship's spur, sometimes threaded before our eyes with e

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She was a ship of the old school, rather small if anything; with an old-fashioned claw-footed look about her. 它是一种老派的船只,如果有什么不同的地方,那就是比较小一些;那样子就象是一只古色古香的有爪的脚。 L