听美文故事记6级单词09-03

3. Tennis's Heritage Everything about tennis, except its essential rules, has changed from the way it was played 100 years ago, when balls, clothes, players and spectators all were white. Andre Agassi's baggy shorts and Serena Williams' bright, skint

TED演讲:吸引力的科学(3)

If a potential mate has managed to pass all these tests, there's still one more: the infamous first kiss, 即便一个潜在的伴侣已经成功通过以上所有的测试，这里还有最后一关：初吻， a rich and complex exchange of tactile

VOA标准英语2012--Paul Simon's 'Live in New York City' Chock Full of Fan Favorites

Paul Simon's 'Live in New York City' Chock Full of Fan Favorites Live In New York City, is a two CD/one DVD set that captures Simon, still rhymin, at 70. The disc live set opens with The Obvious Child, a song Simon hadnt played live on stage for year

美国科学60秒 SSS 2015-01-12

This is Scientific American - 60 seconds Science. I'm Synthia Graver. Got a minute. It's obivious that say turning the lights off saves money, but being reminded that using less energy saves money may not be the most effective way to motivate consume

天天练口语：After-Christmas Shopping

Tess: Eve, how much are these Christmas ornaments? 黛丝：伊芙，这些圣诞饰品多少钱？ Eve: Those are on sale. They are $2.00 each. 伊芙：那些特价，每个2块钱。 Tess: Thats cheap! These will make good presents for next year.

英语听书《海底两万里》第417期 第25章 地中海四十八小时(44)

Oho! We know that, do we? Captain Nemo replied in a tone of mild surprise. Well, professor, we have good reason to know it because it's the truth. 啊！人们知道这事吗？尼摩船长回答，语气有点惊异。那么，教授，人们当然知

英语博客：A Round Robin Tea Party.

I had never heard of a Round Robin, until this past Sunday. My friend, Jody, invited me to a ladies' round robin in the town of Issaquah which is on the outskirts of Seattle. We left at about eight o'clock, stopped for coffee on the way, and reached

蒙娜丽沙搬进卢浮宫新居

Mona Lisa Moved to Refurbished Room in Louvre 蒙娜丽沙搬进卢浮宫新居 DaVinci brought his famous painting to France in 1517. It has been housed in the Louvre since 1804. Last year, curators

2007年VOA标准英语-Ugandan Army Accused of Looting Teak Wood from

By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 27 September 2007 Uganda's Minister of State for Defense says she is shocked by accusations that soldiers in the Ugandan army have been illegally logging valuable timber from southern Sudan and taking it back to Uganda. The alle

SSS 2009-04-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The common method of closing a surgical incision is simply to stitch the patient up. There are some issues, though. Good stitching can be challenging,

英文摇滚歌曲：Hatesphere - Even if it kills me

I have a book collection that sits and screams It's chock-full of memoirs based on the thousands of notes I wrote about you and me Some say it's a long shot I say not even centuries of sleep could prepare me For what you had in store for us And when

NASA's probe confirms Einstein space-time theories

WASHINGTON, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Wednesday that its Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions（预测预言 ） derived from Albert Einstein's general theory

VOA标准英语2011--Earthquake Science Still a Shaky Busines

Earthquake Science Still a Shaky Business The magnitude 5.8 earthquake that rattled the East Coast of the United States in August caught everyone - even geologists - by surprise. But even when there's reason to think an earthquake could be around the

流行美語 第206課

这是个周末，Larry和李华在Larry叔叔的农场里摘了一天的苹果。李华会学到两个常用语：chock full和doohickey。 LL: Wow, Li Hua, your basket is chock full of apples. LH: Chock full of apples？你是不是说我的篮子都

万物简史 第177期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(20)

Every object that has mass creates a little depression in the fabric of the cosmos. 凡有质量的物体在宇宙的底垫上都能造成一个小小的凹坑。 Thus the universe, as Dennis Overbye has put it, is the ultimate sagging mattress. 因此