[人名] 威斯沃尔

LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: It's 1992. Your hair is gelled up, you're sporting high-tops, maybe still listening to Run-DMC on cassette, and that's the setting for a new coming-of-age novel that's also a look at race in America. The book, titled Green, follo

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(299) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

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

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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 winter of wisconsin Nothing. No tracks but my own are stitched into the dusting of fresh snow, white as birch bark, that fell during the night. No flittering shadows in the trees, not a sliver of bird song in the air. 天地一片空寂。昨夜刚刚飘落

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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

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(383) / 评论(0) 分类 迈克尔杰克逊经典歌曲

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
abnegations
acid converter process
ADT
aerumnous
airport surface detection
anli-invasin I
Baraboo quartzite
be at the receiving end of
beaker
Brassert
centrifugal water-packed gland
cholesteatomatous
confirm a title to sb
connecting rod journal
cursuss
cylindrical cam
cymose inflorescence
depositee
double source single streamer method
Egretta
Ferula galbaniflua
flywheel with toothing
focussing distance
fragas
fumaric acids
genus Dicentra
go backpacking
Godmen
guot
head grit
hearing threshold difference
hemophagocyte
Hydrangea kwangsiensis
hydroxyl-Pyromorphite
internet public library
je manintiendrai
just-ended
Khanty-Mansiysk
lake laterite
lbn
line generator number
linecaster
lingers on
long stapled
Lötzen
mapping in the reverse direction
Melvillean
miserity
n-terminal device
nasal inhaler
nasal pit
nmes
nonbiologic
observateur
obsolete equipment
opercular bone
pale purplish pink
passarello
physical measure
power lift lever
presser bit
protestations
public bar
reject trap filter
saddeningly
scare the daylight out of sb
sellate
semantide
septum atrioventriculare
Shetland Islands
simulate bomb
solo run
sour puss
spikelet number
starching machine
statement of cost
tetrammine platinous chloride
three-dimensional template
thurse
top-link
transfer transactions
tricketh
trihexosylceramides
Tronzano
truck-concrete mixer
tuition-free
ultimate biodegradation
ultrathin cellulose acetate membrane
vettori
viadril
Viton A
voice-leading
walking delegate
Wallichia densiflora
War on Women
water hemlocks
water knots
wedding march
whorling
winton
xero-epipetria
Yunmen