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If you imagine the 4,500-million-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, 请你想像一下。把地球的45亿年历史压缩成普通的一天。 then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simpl

SSS 2012-01-16

Magnifying glass, calipers, teeny tiny tape measure, these are the weapons with which researchers are fighting it out to find the world's smallest frog. One team just announced the discovery of the unaverage 7.7 millimeter p* which can sit comfortabl

SSS 2012-06-14

Plants that use animals to disperse their seeds can find themselves in a pickle: They need to make fruit tasty enough to entice the local fauna, but they also need to make sure that their animal asssistants don't digest the very seeds that are meant

双语:潘基文国际地球日致辞

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厄尔尼诺使热带鱼群前往加州

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雅思写作：Environmental Conservation

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科学美国人60秒 SSS This Shark Is the Vertebrate Methuselah

By human standards, a few vertebrate species have incredible longevity. Some tortoises live for nearly 200 years. Bowhead whales can live even a decade or two longer. But now theres a new champion: the Greenland sharkwhich conservative estimates have

趣味青春英语电台 第219期:On your high horse

Idiom: On your high horse 非常固执，傲慢，自以为是 Hit the book: illuninate 照亮 organism 生物，微生物 reside 居住 sea cucumber 海参 vertebrate 脊椎动物 dissolve 能融化 adaptation 适应 fundamental 最基本的，最根本

生活大爆炸第三季第六集_3

没错 但这可附带一只零钱袋呢 Yeah,but it comes with a little coin purse. 帕唐风筝有吗 Does a Patang? 你还是不懂 是吗 Wow,you just don't get it,do you? 就算你给我买什么可爱的小玩意 Buying me something pretty isn'

最短历史教材 8句英文概括世界历史

希腊 -- 从古代文明到经济危机 We did bunch of shit for mankind like 10,000 years ago. Now we are bankrupt 像10000年前为人类做了那么多，现在破产了... Italy 意大利 -- 从罗马帝国到时尚名牌 We were really importan

中国销毁六吨非法象牙

中国销毁六吨非法象牙 Chinese authorities displayed a pile of ornaments, carvings and tusks before pulverizing them with crushing machines. Forestry officials organized the destruction, which they said was the country's first such large-scal

希斯罗气味地球仪 一嗅环游全世界

Nothing evokes a sense of place like the heady waft of a familiar smell. 没有什么能像醉人的熟悉气味那样唤起人们身临其境的感觉。 And passengers travelling from Heathrow's Terminal 2 can now be transported to across the world

全球变暖 北极生态系统面临挑战

Northeast Arctic cod, usually found in the Barents Seas, have been traveling up to the archipelago of Svalbard for the past three years. Off the coast of Longyearbyen, a Norwegian city located just 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole, scientists are

地球一半物种正在灭绝 川普当总统雪上加霜

Nearly half the species on the planet are failing to cope with global warming the world has already experienced, according to an alarming new study that suggests the sixth mass extinction of animal life in the Earth's history could take place in as l

美国旅游风尚

Travel美国旅游风尚It's summertime, and the livin' is easy. For many Americans, this is the season to travel. Why? Because school is out. Because the weather is great. And most of all, because we all deserve a break. When Americans take a break,

Mexico to better monitor endangered flora and fauna

MEXICO CITY, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The Mexican government signed an agreement with the non-governmental group TRAFFIC on Tuesday to exchange information about illegal seizures of flora and fauna species in Mexico. The agreement with the wildlife trade m

Ancient carnivorous fish discovered

BEIJING, Sept. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists had discovered the fossils of a new species of ancient carnivorous fish, National Geographic reported Monday. The newly-found ancient fish, Laccognathus embryi, is a 1.8-meter-long predator, which was waiti

GRE阅读难句之插入语详解

Is this a defect，or are the authors working out of,or trying to forge,a different kind of aesthetic? (3) 这究竟是一种缺陷呢，还是这些作者想要按照一种与众不同的美学体系进行创作，抑或是在试图创立一种与众不

万物简史 第249期:大地在移动(3)

Wegener developed the theory that the world's continents had once come together in a single landmass he called Pangaea, where flora and fauna had been able to mingle, before the continents had split apart and floated off to their present positions. A

英语音频杂志：再见大海雀

Water sports by Mike Rayner We'll all be planning that route We're gonna take real soon We're waxing down our surfboards We can't wait for June We'll all be gone for the summer We're on surfari to stay Tell the teacher we're surfin' Surfin' U. S. A.