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J.R.R. Tolkien and A Legend He Created Tolkien's grand themes would play out in the world of Middle Earth. It was a world created in his head but 1) imbued with his two greatest loves -- languages and

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(146) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

AILSA CHANG, HOST: To Middle Earth - that's where author J. R. R. Tolkien transported readers in The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings to follow the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and this creature? (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台9月

The Lord of the Rings author was JRR Tolkien. He was a Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University in England. He died in 1973, aged 81. He signed the movie rights to a company in Hollywood in 1969. This included rights to sell

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

By Paul Burge London 26 June 2007 The most expensive stage show ever has opened in London's West End. Transformed from page to screen and now the stage, J.R.R. Tolkien's classic trilogy The Lord of the Rings opened (Tuesday, June 19th) at the British

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(六月)

LONDON, July 11 (Xinhua) -- When the sun withdrew its last drop of sunshine on Tuesday, the ancient Stonehenge was transformed into a carnivalesque fire garden to mark the London 2012 Olympics. Lit up with fire sculpture, the megalithic monuments wer

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Parents want their children to read Charles Dickens' classic 'A Christmas Carol' more than any other book during their lifetime. A survey by the University of Worcester discovered one in five parents wanted their children to experience the Victorian

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Bob Beamon established himself as the favourite in the 1968 long jump by winning 22 of 23 meets in the pre-Olympic season. He almost met with disaster in the qualifying round. After fouling his first two attempts, he had only one try left. His teamma

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(162) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(三)月

VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(226) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年慢速英语(三)月

LOS ANGELES, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Many Hobbit fans were excited or worried when Peter Jackson announced Monday that he will stretch the originally planned two-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy-adventure The Hobbit into a trilogy, some

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

俚语: 小傻瓜,小笨蛋 英语中有关傻瓜的表达大有泛滥之嫌,不过用时可要小心,弄不好有时会得罪人的!比如,之前我们讲过的dumbbell和chowderhead,其侮辱意味较浓,因此不能随便用在朋友身

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

True Dedication! 好投入啊! Mrs. Fortesque was getting more and more worried. 福特斯克太太越来越担心。 Her husband had left for a round of golf early in the morning and by mid-afternoon he still wasn't home. 因为她先生一早出去打

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 经典双语笑话

Today we meet the English word folly, and we visit a strange old building and an art exhibition. Lets start with the word folly. I guess you know what foolish means. If someone is foolish, he or she does stupid or unwise things. We can call such a pe

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

Are you less than 170cm tall? Do you have hairy feet and toes? You do? Then there may be a job for you. Let me explain. You have probably heard of the writer JRR Tolkien. He wrote the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and a number of other books. His boo

发表于:2019-03-01 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语
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amassers
aquifuge
bilateralness
blast-furnace gas
booster air cleaner
branched chain structure
brick toast
butcherblock
Bīrāwī
Cerro Colorado
charge carrying particle
checking number
cinnamon bears
clash gear
conservancies
customer frustration
day length
demand for bank funds
Diervilla versicolor
directours
distributing pole
diteftin
double-arch hammer
drm-free
else
entrusted organization
esquiline hill (esquilino)
fellow-teacher
floating-point arithmetic library
freckling
full stop landing
funalicious
gas charging system
george mead
get smart
half-mutation
hambros
heat emission
hydrogen flame detector
industrial customer
industrial hazard
insertion funiculi umbilicalis
irritative
local selector
mariupol (zhdanov)
maximal number of independent vertices
micro-instability
neanderline
neti pots
noise signal generator
optical rotation
pass ... round
passive agglutination test
Peace to his ashes
physical i/o function
pink elephants
pleezer
Plouray
primary invader
principal building
proditorious
Psyche knot
Puccinia muehlenbeckiae
pyranograph
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resistance to sterilization
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sardinella jussieu
Scotto-
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sensitivo-rational
shell charcoal
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show one's heels
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sliding barrier
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steel-tape recorder
sullying
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tahlul (arabia)
telling-off
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umpty
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variability of heredity
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wolf
wolfmen
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