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At lunch the guests at the Black Dog Inn could talk of nothing but the museum robbery. If you ask me, one guest said, the police should question Miss Coffin first. After all, she lives at the Sailors Museum. Humph! another guest said. What about inve

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 39 The Ghost Ship Mystery

The biggest and strongest animal on land is the elephant. The largest and heaviest animal in the sea is the whale. It's also the biggest eater in the world. It eats a ton of food a day. It looks like

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(306) / 评论(0) 分类 赖世雄初级美国英语

An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petroleum - a dark, thick ooze from the earth - had been known for hundreds of years, but little use had ever been made

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It really is rocket scienceresearchers are using huge x-ray scanners from NASA to understand how sonar might be affecting the hearing of large ocean mammals. These scanners are usually used to inspect the space shuttles solid fuel rockets. Navy sonar

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Our oceans are alive with sound. Sound that most of us never hear. But there is one man who is definitely listening. The blue whales in the eastern North Pacific off the California coast make two primary types of calls. You know one is this very puls

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2007年

Then as we got closer, I could see what it was. It was a California gray whale cow. The California gray whale is one of the largest animals on the planet. A fully-grown female known as a cow can easily weigh up to 35 tons, the equivalent of eleven fe

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A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was lookin

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EXPLORATIONS - November 27, 2002: Keiko the Whale By Jerilyn Watson VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we te

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An elderly woman decided to have her portrait painted. She told the the artist.... .....Paint me with diamond earrings, a diamond necklace, emerald bracelets(绿宝石手镯), a ruby(红宝石) broach, and gold Rolex(劳力士手表). But y

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The price of oil has dropped around 20 percent in recent weeks, but remains more than double what it was just a couple of years ago. The high price has given oil companies the incentive to revisit old fields long ago abandoned as unprofitable. As VO

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Australia and Japan have traded barbs ahead of a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Santiago, Chile. Japan accuses Australia of lacking the conviction to save crucial talks from a state of collapse. Australian Environment Minister Pe

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Whale Sightings Break Record in Southern California LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA Tourists are flocking to the southern California coast for whale-watching tours. In the last month, a record number of the huge marine mammals have been seen off the coast of

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Rights Group Rebukes Angola for Alleged Missing Oil Revenues Leah Krakinowski A leading human-rights group says the Angolan government cannot account for more than $4 billion in missing oil revenue ,

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NASA Scanner Offers Clues To Whale Hearing Researchers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University have imaged whale skulls in an attempt to determine the effects of sonar on whale hearing. Cynthia Graber reports It really is rocket scienceresearc

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More than 2,000 representatives of world oil and gas companies, academics and industry experts are in Houston this week for the 30th annual conference(会议) sponsored by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, or IHS-CERA. With prices rising, partly

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The global oil markets experienced another blow on Monday, with prices hitting their lowest in five and a half years. US crude at one point hit below $50 a barrel, while Brent dove under $53. This was related to the latest signs of oversupply. Russia

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HOUSTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- British oil giant BP announced Wednesday it had a major oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. An appraisal well the company drilled in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the Gulf of Mexico found

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

TEHRAN, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran has refused to deliver oil to Greece in Persian Gulf, the local Fars news agency reported on Sunday. The Islamic republic refused to deliver a shipment of 500,000 barrels of crude oil to one of the refineries in Greec

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Saudi Arabia is signaling that it is going to boost its supply of oil on its own after failing to convince other oil producers to jointly agree to more production. Several news agencies reported Saturday that the Saudis could increase their oil produ

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

NEW YORK, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices rose on Friday as supplies tended to be tight on new Iran sanctions and production problems in North Sea. There was news on Thursday saying that the Obama administration expanded sanctions on Iran, in an eff

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analogue information
area symbol
arin
beginning-of-chain
besi
boots on the ground
broad equatorial band
brockden
calcium tetrasulfide
canaliculi
cartwhips
Casearia graveolens
central islip
Chkey
classified bonds
clubbier
cluteh pedal centre
coiled-coil-forming
college of science and technology
Contingency Planning Guidance
convers
CORBICULIDA
crop spraying boom
cut an eye
cybertown
Dolichos thorelii
dollar diplomacies
drawing a line
dry way
each and singular
Ellwood
embryonic dune
fault block mountain
Feather analysis
fir filter synthesis
fire finch
flood discharging tunnel
get on the air
gonaaopause
haemolysing
hermitian adjoint operator
household objects
hydrosodalite
i love you more than anyone else
implementation of the reference language
individuated
integrated puff model
jidderbug
joint emphysema
karhunen loeve transform (klt)
know-nothing parties
loosely-coupled network
mammillary line
manual telegraph
marine railway cradle
master control system
mastereth
mediumseagreen
mid-sentences
MISCEX
ogry
oligodendroglia
opening in flat head
optical measurement mechanics
ordered categorization
Pieria Ori
plant-mixed concrete
play one's trump card
Polygala lhunzeensis
pregenitality
purple sands
pycnomorphic
radula campanigera
regular way sale
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soroban
spare me
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stump extractor
supply waveform
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Taureans
technological efficiency
teixobactin
tertiary potassium phosphate
thermomechanical method
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undercapitalizes
uppitiest
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visible light therapy
wean
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zymogenic bacterium