英国学生科学读本 第85期:可可与巧克力(2)

Some people like to make their cocoa by boiling the nibs in water. 有些人喜欢用水来煮可可粒, When this is done, a layer of cocoa-butter is formed on the top of the cocoa. 这样一来, 可可的上面就会形成一层可可脂。 But mos

【突破英文词汇】solv, solu -- loosen 松开

1. dissolution /ˌdɪsəˈlu:ʃən/ -- act of loosening or breaking up into component parts; disintegration; ruin; destruction When President Lincoln took office, the Union faced imminent dissolution. 当林肯总统就职时，北军就面临着迫切

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-10-16

Pet turtles can be unsanitary. But Chinese soft-shelled turtles really up the ante on distasteful behavior. They perform a variation on urinationthrough their mouths. Most land-based vertebrates produce urine to get rid of water-soluble toxic waste,

SSS 2010-03-26

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Buildings consume about a third of the energy and two-thirds of the electricity in the U.S. Roofs are a good place to try to cut those figures. Because

漫画搞定六级词汇(音频+文本) 第158期

图片1 aerial n．天线 例句：The picture is much clearer with the new aerial. 装上新天线后画面清晰多了。 nitrogen n．氮 例句：Air consists chiefly of nitrogen. 空气主要由氮气组成。 oxygen n．氧 例句：Trees relea

专业术语—口腔生理学术语P2(英文详解)

pH - a measure of how acid or alkali a solution is. As the pH gets lower, the solution is more acid. At a pH of 7 the solution is neither acid nor alkali. pH is the inverse of the logarithm of the con

万花筒 2012-02-07&02-10 手机再也不怕水！？

A cellphone rests in its watery-grave,a distressing sight for cellphone users everywhere. But this one, isn't dead. Hello, this Alexan,thanks for calling ,welcome, how may I help you?Liquipel is a start-up company based in Santa Ana, California. It's

SSS 2011-12-12

Cooking is one big science experiment and chefs have been gaining fame for more explicit uses of scentific techniques and tools in the kitchen. Now, according to an article in the December issue of physics world, mixologists the folks behind the bar

科学美国人60秒 SSS Cool Coating Chills in Sunlight

You've probably seen pictures of Greek villages, where every house is painted bright white. The paint reflects the intense sunlight of the Mediterranean. And it works pretty well to keep the houses from heating up in the sun. But it doesn't actively

经济学人321:爬行动物的排尿 可算是方便了

Science and technology 科学技术 Reptilian micturition 爬行动物的排尿 That's a relief 可算是方便了 Softshell turtles urinate through their mouths 鳖类通过其嘴部小便 WHY did the turtle stick its head in a bucket? 为什么乌龟

方便面也能吃出营养来

Everyone who has eaten instant noodles before knows how it looks like. It is very easy to cook it instantly by putting the noodles into the boiling water and add in those MSG packets, together with your other ingredients like eggs or vegetables. Howe

The Shepherd and the Bureaucrat

A bureaucrat was hiking when he came upon a shepherd tending a large flock. The bureaucrat took a fancy to the sheep and asked the shepherd, If I can guess how many there are, may I have one? The shepherd thought it unlikely the man would guess the e

学个词Learn a Word 第983期 Bureaucracy

今天我们要学的词是bureaucracy。 Bureaucracy, 官僚。美国国防部长盖茨上周末公开对军方庞大的官僚体制提出批评。 Gates took aim at what he called a bloated bureaucracy, 他还保证要亲自过问，精简军方的官

大众拟用催化转化器修复受影响汽车

Volkswagen has devised a new catalytic converter that could fix the majority of the cars in the US affected by the diesel emissions scandal, as details emerge of its attempts to satisfy regulators. 大众汽车(Volkswagen)设计出一种新的催化转

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-17

You never guess the dangers on the ground from orbit, except maybe for this, massive, double-barreled storms hovering above the poles. Of this, what we called dipole features trailing around, we don't know what, really what they are, but the whole fe

多吃芹菜 健康好处多多

1. It is very hydrating. 盈润保湿。 Celery is high in water content (95% water) and electrolytes, which are vital for proper hydration and cellular functions. For a super re-hydrating drink (e.g. after a long flight or after having food poisonin

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靛蓝青年布：Indigo chambray 人棉布植绒：Rayon cloth flocking PVC植绒：PVC flocking 针织布植绒：Knitting cloth flocking 珠粒绒：Claimond veins 倒毛：Down pile making 平绒：velveteen (velvet-plain) 仿麂皮：Micro suede

英语听力文摘 English Digest 158、油炸糖果，你吃过吗？

D：Yael, do you know what's the best thing about state affair? Y: Do you tell. D: Fried candy bars, two favoriate treats rolled into one. And doesn't it bother your mind how they manage fried chacholate without making a terrible mess? Fried candy ba

万物简史 第357期:孤独的行星(22)

Oxygen itself is not combustible; it merely facilitates the combus tion of other things. （氧本身是不可燃的，它只是帮助别的东西燃烧。 This is just as well, for if oxygen were corn bustible, each time you lit a match all the air

英语听力文摘 English Digest 234、游泳池里的细菌

Swimming With Germs 到游泳馆游泳消暑逐渐成为市民推崇的运动之一。尽管游泳馆都要求游泳者必须办理健康证，但健康证多流于形式，无法起到防范的作用。目前，市内一些大的游泳馆的水质基本