英文故事剧 佛陀勾月(Buddha's moon)

当月光皎洁明亮时，人们可以通过肉眼清晰的看到月亮上的阴影。各个文化的初民们，都发挥自己的想象，将月亮上的阴影拟为人世间的事物。因此，嫦娥、桂树、玉兔就应运而生了。 然而关注着月亮的，并非只有中国人。梵语中，印度就是月亮的意思；在印度，月亮更是一切美好

60秒科学:Water on the Moon

Water on the Moon Studies in the journal Science report that instruments on three different spacecraft have found evidence for widespread trace amounts of water on the moon. Karen Hopkin reports For all you space buffs who like to keep track of wher

SSS 2010-05-26

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. What do a carnivorous sponge, a lobular yam and a flat-faced psychedelic frogfish all have in common? They're among the Top 10 Species first described in 2

SSS 2009-09-24

For all you space buffs who like to keep track of where the water is, it looks like you can add our very own moon to your list. Because according to a trio of papers appearing in the journal Science, the lunar surface is wetter than we realized. Fort

经济学人: 系外行星的卫星探索之旅 (1)

WRITERS of science fiction have long assumed that the galaxy is teeming with alien planets. 科幻小说的作家们一直都认为星系中存在异形星球。 They were correct, but it was only in the past few decades that science has been able to

英语听书《海底两万里》第501期 第31章 章鱼(9)

Aristotle put the dimensions of one squid at five cubits, or 3.1 meters. 亚历士多德曾经确证过一条长3.1米的枪乌贼。 Our fishermen frequently see specimens over 1.8 meters long. 我们现在的渔夫也经常看到一些长超过1.8米

看看最奇怪的新物种有哪些?(有声)

What do a carnivorous sponge, a lobular yam and a flat-faced psychedelic frogfish all have in common? Theyre among the Top 10 Species first described in 2009. Thats according the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State Univer

CNN 2009-10-08

Hello everyone, I'm Catherine Callaway at the CNN center, with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Today is the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, and the biggest strategic decision could be still to come. Seven hundred and sevent

SSS 2010-12-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Galileo first spotted Saturn's rings 400 years ago. But since then, scientists have been stumped about how they got there. Because the rings are almost pure wa

谷歌月球惊现外星人漫步月球影像？

A shadowy figure was spotted on the moon's surface last month, and since then it has grabbed the attention -- and the extremely wild imagination -- of the Internet. YouTube user Wowforreeel first started investigating the figure using Google Moon, a

英国学生科学读本 第69期:欧鲽鱼(2)

It has a short fin near the middle of each side just behind its head, and another pair of short fins between the head and the belly fin. It has also a large tail fin. 在身体每一侧头部下方靠近中间的位置上也分别有一个短鳍, 另外

英语听书《海底两万里》第345期 第23章 珊瑚王国(42)

Other zoophytes swarming near the sponges consisted chiefly of a very elegant species of jellyfish; 在海绵类旁边繁殖着的其他植虫动物，主要是形状很美观的一种水母。 mollusks were represented by varieties of squid that, ac

英语听书《海底两万里》第376期 第25章 地中海四十八小时(2)

Accordingly, our speed was twenty-five miles (that is, twelve four-kilometer leagues) per hour. 因此，我们的速度是每小时二十五海里，即每里为四千米的十二里。 Needless to say, Ned Land had to give up his escape plans, much

2007年VOA标准英语-US Spacecraft Finds Signs of Seas on Saturn's B

By David McAlary Washington 14 March 2007 A U.S. spacecraft studying Saturn has found evidence of large seas on its biggest moon, Titan. But if they are seas, they would not be filled with water. Instead, as VOA's David McAlary reports, they would be

英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国 -12

The Chinese moccasin is an ambush predator with a deadly bite. This is one of China's largest and most feared venomous snakes. But the monkeys have lived alongside these dangerous serpents for thousands of years. They use this specific alarm call to

美科学家称月球正在缩小

The Man in the Moon has become the latest victim of contraction（缩小 ） in the housing market. Astronomers（天文学家） reporting on Thursday in the US journal Science said they had found previous undetected landforms（地貌,地形） whi

Who Was Neil Armstrong - 尼尔·阿姆斯特朗 Chapter 8 Next Stop—the Moon

On the morning of July 16, 1969, Neil and his two fellow Apollo 11 crewmen rose at 4:15 A.M. They had steak and eggs for breakfast, the same breakfast all astronauts had before a flight. The night before a special visitor had arrived for dinner to wi

英语听力文摘 English Digest 361、小小灶神星

Vesta 灶神星 You can see the planet Jupiter on a clear night, but Jupiter is humongous. Mars and Mercury are smaller than that, and you can see them, too. Wait a minute, our moon is even smaller, and you can see that. Could anything smaller than t

英语听书《海底两万里》第197期 第14章 黑潮暖流(11)

A triggerfish, I said. 是一条箭鱼。我于是说了。 It's a Chinese triggerfish, Ned Land replied. 尼德兰回答：是一条中国箭鱼。 Genus Balistes, family Scleroderma, order Plectognatha, Conseil muttered. 康塞尔于是低声说：箭

神秘的月球 第11期

As the moon pulls away it will put an end 随着月球日渐远离 to one of nature's most glorious spectacles; 自然界中最壮丽的奇景也将画下句点 a total solar eclipse. 那就是日全食 The moon is 400 times smaller than the sun. 月球