The Hubble

The Hubble When most people think of space, what comes to mind are names like 1) John Glenn and Neil Armstrong. When scientists think about space, the name that comes to mind is Hubble, a space telesc

14 the Daffodil principle

the Daffodil principle Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over. I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead I will come next Tuesday, I promised a

台风侵袭中国

The most powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades has smashed into the country's southeastern coast, destroying homes and capsizing boats along the way. Dozens of deaths are reported and it's fea

国家地理:Tornadoes 龙卷风

Call them twisters or tornadoes. They're nature's most violent storms with swirling winds that can top 300 miles per hour. About 800 twisters sweep through the US every year, more than anywhere else in the world. The hardest-hit area is a swath of th

CNN 2010-05-16

Vicious weather in the southern plains. Two deadly tornadoes swirling in unison in southern Oklahoma. All of it caught on tape. There comes one right there. Look at them. They are all over. As you can hear, storm chasers were only reporters because i

SSS 2011-02-14

Imagine Van Gogh's paintings of yellow sunflowers. Now imagine the flowers brown. Eh, not so good. Sadly, we may someday see what that would look like. Because the bright yellow paints on the canvas are slowly turning muddy. Now, an international tea

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望远镜的革命

When most people think of space, what come to mind are names like John Glenn and Neil Armstrong. When scientists think about space, the name that comes to mind is Hubble, a space telescope we sent on a twenty-year Journey to explore the origins of th

英文歌曲天天唱：Don McLean-Vincent

Starry starry night paint your palette blue and grey look out on a summer\'s day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul. Shadows on the hills sketch the trees and the daffodils catch the breeze and the winter chills in colors on the snowy linen

研究显示汽车尾气排放检测存在漏洞

Researchers have provided fresh evidence of a growing gap between vehicle emissions in laboratory tests and their performance on the road, as questions mount about the carmakers conduct in the wake of the Volkswagen scandal. 研究人员提供的最新

经济学人: 海洋生物的隐身斗篷 (2)

The deep ocean has other sources of light than astronomical bodies, though. 除了天体，深海还有其他光源。 Three-quarters of marine organisms off the coast of California produce their own, and that is probably true in most oceans, 加利福

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So close, she thought. Beneath the linen bandages, her fingers still throbbed where the dagger had bitten. 就快到了啊，她心想。包扎在棉布绷带中的手指上， The pain was her scourge, Catelyn felt, lest she forget. 被匕首割伤的

重归混沌 (The Return to Chaos)

Let us return to original chaos! 让我们重归于元始的混沌！ Let us imagine the primordial din, the original vortex! 让我们臆想那本初的喧嚣、元始的漩涡！ Let us throw ourselves into the whirlwind which has preceded the crea

Cannes to celebrate Bollywood on screen

PARIS, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Bollywood will share the spotlight at the 64th Cannes Film Festival from May 11 to 22, with a special film showcasing India's unique film culture, organizers announced Friday. Bollywood - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told,

音乐之都--维也纳

The Austrian capital of Vienna (Wien), with a population of more than 1.6 million, is a city forever implanted into the international imagination as a dreamy place of cream-filled pastries(奶油馅饼) and angelic choir boys, of prancing white horse

TED演讲:漫谈时光流逝(3)

Encounter one: Ocean City, New Jersey, 1980. 遭遇一: 1980年,新泽西的欧欣城. This was the summer when the special edition of 那是个夏天,正好赶上《第三类接触》的 Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released. 特别版发布

双语美文：生活的一课

For nearly a year, I 1)sopped around the house, the store, the school and the church. Then, I met, or rathergot to know, the lady who threw me my first lifeline. 差不多有一年，我都泡在家、店铺、学校和教堂里。然后我遇到了，

英语美文：背包女人

She used to sleep in the Fifth Post Office. I could smell her before I rounded the entrance to where she slept, standing up, by the public phones. I smelled the urine that seeped through the layers of her dirty clothing and the decay from her nearly

经济学人:苹果在中国 与腾讯的应用之战(2)

Hostilities have now broken out with Tencent. 现在，苹果公司已对腾讯有所不满。 The two had co-existed happily: since richer Chinese prefer iPhones to Android phones, these devices are where WeChat made much of its money. 腾讯和苹果

straw hat in the wind

Mama,that summer,on the way to Klitsemi,my straw hat flew down the mountains.Mama,do you remember,the old straw hat you gave to me ? I lost that hat long ago, it flew to the foggy canyou. Mama,I wonder what happened to that old straw hat which fell d