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Except for the ruffling of waves, and the pull of the tides, you probably think of the ocean as pretty flat. You wouldn't expect it to have a geography, its waters piled up into lasting hills or sunk into valleys. Sea level ought to be pretty level,

PBS高端访谈:南极洲的融化速度超过了科学家的预期

Scientists are predicting a 110-mile sheet of ice -- a chunk the size of the state of Delaware -- will break off Antarctica in the coming days or weeks. The cause is warming ocean waters, and the ice melt has implications for sea level rise well beyo

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When Michael Phelps is out of the water, he towers over mere non-Olympic mortals. Then he slips into the pool, and makes record-breaking speed seem effortless. His height, it turns out, is no accident. According to research published in The Journal o

新西兰英语 764 South Island lakes need rain

This morning, New Zealanders had an extra hour in bed because we turned our clocks back. Summer time is finished. Already, we can feel the mornings and evenings are colder. In most of the South Island, the day time temperatures are cold too. However,

CCTV9英语新闻：政府制定区域生态环境保护的新目标

China has set new goals for ecological and environmental protection in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, highlighting concerted efforts to control air and water pollution, and the conservation of resources. Under the plan, particles of PM2.5 -- in th

美国语文第六册 第14期:大扫除(3)

Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. 让伟大的神灵，在我们头顶掀起这场可怕的骚动。现在，让他们找到他们的敌人吧。 Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2015-6-3

1. The National Security Agency has lost its authority to collect the phone records of the Americans in bulk. Republican senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul was able to stop from being extended during an extraordinary senate session on Sunda

美国国家公共电台 NPR Breaking Down The 2018 Oscar Nominations

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Academy Award nominations were announced today. And if you're looking for an early front-runner, you could do worse than Guillermo del Toro's romantic science fiction fantasy The Shape Of Water. It led the way with 13 nominat

最In导购口语 第175期:娱乐休闲(3)

Conversation 3 A: Good morning, Mrs.Brown. Do you have any nice white tulips? A：早上好，布朗夫人。有上好的白色郁金香吗？ B:Yes, we have. B：有的，有的。 A: But the flowers are still in buds. A：可是这些还是花蕾。

【英语3级听力】潜水-Diving Off

He took a deep breath. He looked down. The water looked cold. He was nervous. Come on, Jump! said his friends. He was on a ledge of a cliff. It was a big drop. All his friends had jumped. They were swimming in the water. His friends waited for him. F

PBS高端访谈:纽约利用桑迪的经验教训,建立抵御超级风暴的机制

GWEN IFILL: This week marks a year since superstorm Sandy struck. More than 70 people were killed along the Eastern Seaboard. Damage totaled more than $65 billion, and it pounded New Jersey and New York City hard. It also prompted a reexamination --

英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国 -12

The Chinese moccasin is an ambush predator with a deadly bite. This is one of China's largest and most feared venomous snakes. But the monkeys have lived alongside these dangerous serpents for thousands of years. They use this specific alarm call to

Haikui affects 6 mln people, destroys thousands of houses

BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- More than 6 million people had been affected by Typhoon Haikui in four provinces as of 8 a.m. Thursday, the country's flood control authority said. Typhoon Haikui, which made landfall early Wednesday morning in east China'

China's Three Gorges hits full capacity

YICHANG, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's Three Gorges Dam on Sunday reached its designed highest mark, the second time for the world's largest water control and hydropower project to run at full capacity. The water level hit 175 meters at 5 p.m. after st

英伦广角 2012-06-16 英国将取消“禁水令”

On April, the 5/7 of water companies introduced restrictions in parts of southern and eastern England, but the bans will fall it by nearly 2.5 times than normal rainfall for that month in England with more heavy rain in May continuing into this month

8 Great Anti-Hacks to Change Your Life

8 Great Anti-Hacks to Change Your Life Editors note: This is a guest post from Clay Collins of Project Liberation and The Growing Life. Albert Einstein started that problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. Einstein,

与“暴雨洪灾”相关的英语词汇

Rain and Flood 暴雨洪灾 to burst their banks/ breaching of the dyke 决堤/ 溃堤 floods/ floodwater/ inundation 洪水 freshet 河水猛涨/ 涨水 water levels 水位 watercourses 河道/ 水道 the flood level 洪水水位 warning level 警戒水

万物简史 第387期:浩瀚的海洋(6)

Nearly 90 percent of the planet's ice is in Antarctica, and most of the rest is in Greenland. 地球上将近90%的冰在南极洲；剩下的主要在格陵兰。 Go to the South Pole and you will be standing on nearly two miles of ice, at the North

CCTV9英语新闻：PM2.5 levels down 14.1 percent in 2015

Among many things, water pollution prevention and control was strengthened. The percentage of water rated at level 5 grade, which is the lowest grade, decreased 6.8 percent. Also, daily waste water treatment capacities for cities and towns increased

GRE阅读背景材料：厄尔尼诺现象

新gre阅读之厄尔尼诺。下面为大家搜索整理的新gre阅读之厄尔尼诺，对于新gre 阅读考试，考生除了采取题海战术，其实更应该做的就是总结。今天带来的gre 阅读neirong希望对同学们的gre 考试有