wall creeper
【动物】旋壁雀(Tichodroma muraria, 主要产于欧、亚及北非)

These aren't miniatures, they are life-size. So far, the Chinese have only dug up 10% of the site. And already thousands of warriors and some 10,000 weapons have been discovered. Look closely at the f

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 万里长城

Throughout their long history, the Chinese have been farmers. If you are committed to your land, you stay put and accumulate possessions--land, livestock and homes that you fill with furniture and goo

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It's a thousand times longer than any monument ever built. Started before the Birth of Christ, it was still being built when Columbus sailed to America and millions died in its making. What unspeakabl

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Often, the only clue he has, is from some ancient text. And it is up to him to puzzle out the arcane references and make them fit the modern landscape. Armed only with a walking stick to fend off snak

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In the heart of a harsh winter, Meng Jiangnu(孟姜女) decided to visit her husband who had been sent to work on the construction of the wall. Bringing warm clothes for her beloved husband, she went

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It is a staggering 2,700 miles longer than the first Great Wall of the Emperor Qin. There is no wood, water or stone in the desert. But the Han managed to build a wall that has resisted 2,000 years of

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So when they left the sheltering walls of Dunhuang(敦煌), heading for the desert that local people referred to as

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And many never returned home, ending up in graveyards like this one. Large tombs for generals, small ones for the soldiers, and all of them died defending the Great Wall. But the soldiers' misery did

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The four Aldens went to the airport to meet Rory. Their grandfather and Mrs. McGregor went along, too. Everyone was excited, wondering what Rory would be like. There he is! exclaimed Benny, waving. He sees us! My, hes bigger than I thought he would b

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【英文原文】 The next day he was nailing up some honeysuckle against the porch, when he heard the Miller's voice calling to him from the road. So he jumped off the ladder, and ran down the garden, and looked over the wall. There was the Miller

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When the British arrived at the emperor's summer residence, they were lavishly entertained and spent days touring its beautiful parks and temples. Macartney(马戛尔尼), a good Englishman and loyal

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The new Manchu dynasty tried something different with their neighbors, diplomacy. Here in their lovely Summer Palace, they greeted delegations from all over the Eastern world. Attendance was compulsor

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The tombs all followed the same basic design, a temple in front and a walled enclosure with the underground tomb behind. Because Wanli(万历) ruled for so long, he constructed a huge tomb. And in 195

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Here on a steep slope, defensive walls rise in steps up to the watchtower. So if the enemy did make it to the top of the wall, the crucial watchtowers could be fiercely defended. The watchtowers thems

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With the Mongols expelled, the new rulers, the Ming emperors, were determined that an invasion would never happen again. And so in 1368, when Europe was being decimated by the Black Plague(黑死病, 鼠

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In summer, dried-up river valleys offered easy invasion routes for horsemen bent on sacking the rich Chinese towns of the plains. And this is why these passes were heavily fortified, even though they

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迈克尔.杰克逊:Off the wall When the world is on your shoulder 当你需要肩负起世界的时候 Gott straighten up your act and boogie down 你就应当挺直身板随声起舞 If you can't hang whth the feeling 如果你还是找不到感觉

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在这次节目里我们要给大家介绍两个都是以wall这个字为主的习惯用语。Wall这个字是什么意思呢?Wall就是一堵墙的墙。有不少习惯用语都跟wall这个字有关

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我们上次讲了几个由up这个词开头的习惯用语。今天再学几个。 Up这个词可以解释为往上,例如在这个习惯用语里: up the wall。 Wall当然是墙壁,up the wall字面意思是上墙。上墙可不是件轻而易

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Plan B - Writing's On The Wall Plan B是一向有坏男孩之称的英国创作歌手兼演员Ben Drew的艺名。去年四月份他令人惊艳的单曲She Said成功打进英国单曲榜前十。这首Writing's On The Wall与She Said出自同张专辑

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学英语单词
a departure lounge
al-afghani
allowable periodic cut
anaemotrophy
appraised price
arteric migmatite
bar link
block diagram algebra
break to crush
cable casing
centring circuit
chinning bars
chloride plate
choiceset
clytocybe albas
component cooling loop demineralized water
computing hydraulics
costs of administration
cover cap nut
croup kettle
cumulonimbus capillatus
cut off a corner
D-shaped spalling
decorative lamination
deoxynucleosides
desoxyandrographolide
Doctor Faustus
electric trailabke switch machine
Elliott eye
energy solar section
enlightened despotism
fatigue tester
fitting bay
fixed-wings
fluoridationist
fuligonin
get the pink slip
hamburger buttons
handblocked
have no ear for
hel-lo
homosporous
horizontal control
in many instances
infosocieties
interference settlement
jinlingzi powder
lachrymatory candle
line squall (lsq)
line-frequency blanking pulse
linearly polarized light output
liquorrhea
married out
mctague
Methanotorris
mucuna ferruginea matsum.
multicables
negron
neodymium-doped yttrium-aluminum garnet rod
nifurethazone
nous verrons
Oberteuringen
open-ness
operator schema
out-twine
over-moist
powdered pepper
pre-anthropic
ptcas
punch nose
puts it another way
red pills
refan
rockclimbers
sale yard
scaly habit
serrefine
set my heart upon
shedrow
ship not responsible
shoesize
sociocusis
solid stream of water
spirorbid
syphilid acniformis
tail-poles
Tamarix leptostachya
Tambunan
tectospondylous vertebra
tegus
tetrapotassium pyrophosphate
Thayer presumption
tibetana
tube grup
TV satellite broadcast transmission and receiver
vampirologist
Washimiya
water pressure relay
yl.
yolk sac tumor of ovary
zendon