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He was standing on the busy sidewalk. He was looking straight up. They were building a high-rise at 32nd Street and 6th Avenue. It had hundreds of huge glass windows. A crane was lifting a dumpster. The dumpster was about 20 feet in the air. He watch

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇故事(纽约)

Recently Kuala Lumper beat Chicago in a battle of skyscrapers when experts had the country's Petronas Twin Towers measured and declared it the world's tallest building. The title was formerly held by

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(262) / 评论(0) 分类 赖世雄中级美国英语

Lesson28 You Can Be a Super-Achiever Everyone knows about straight-A students. We see them frequently in TV sitcoms and in movies like Revenge of the Nerds. They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull grinds, their noses always stuck i

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High-techCameras Haveyouheardaboutthelatestinhigh-techcameras? TheJapanesehaveanewsuper-fastcamera. It'ssoquickitcanphotographawomanwithhermouthclosed. Notes: 1.Haveyouheardaboutthelatestinhigh-techcameras? 你听说有关高科技相机的最新消息

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Dealing with an Apartment Super George: Did you call the super about fixing the leaky faucet? Louise: I called him on Monday, but I havent heard back yet. George: Well, call him again. This window is stuck and it wont close. Louise: Ill call him, but

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7. It's not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers. 【分析】复合句。主句主干为主系表结构;It's not o

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Another reason we're told not to worry is that these machines can't help but share our values because they will be literally extensions of ourselves. 另外一个试图安慰我们的理由是,那些机器必须拥有和我们一样的价值观,因

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(139) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科技篇

By Ernest Leong Washington, DC 02 February 2007 watch HDTV Superbowl report America - and a surprisingly large slice of the rest of the world - is about to plunge into Super Bowl Sunday: the annual championship final of the U.S. National Football Le

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(164) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(二月)

By Jeff Swicord Washington 05 July 2007 As energy prices continue to rise, more and more housing consumers in the U.S. are looking for ways to save money on home energy costs. VOA's Jeff Swicord reports on an environmentally friendly, green building

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Turning Cigarette Butts to Batteries 烟头转变成电池 If you see a person carelessly throw a cigarette to the ground, what are you likely to think? That depends. If you hate people throwing things on the ground, you might think, That person shou

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(152) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(九)月

7. It's not obvious how the capacity objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers. 【分析】复合句。主句主干为主系表结构:It's not obvious how。it是

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On a November afternoon last year, a discarded cement block fell from an eleven-story apartment building in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. It hit a 44-day-old baby on the ground and left her with severe injuries. The perpetrator could not be iden

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READING: The fast pace at which the Internet has entered and transformed our lives has had an impact on the words and language we use. It is 20 years since the website Dictionary.com was created, and it has looked back at the past two decades to see

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(202) / 评论(0) 分类 英语生活新闻

Tonight the moon looks bigger and brighter than usual. It is a Super Moon. Actually it is a full moon but also a perigree moon when it is the closest to the Earth during its orbit. These two events are happening together tonight. It last happened Mar

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

U.S. retail sales grew more slowly in October, giving a moderate boost to the consumer spending segment that drives most U.S. economic activity. Tuesday's report from the Commerce Department says the gain was one-half of a percent in October, which i

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Lesson 208 The building is very high! 1.The building is very high!这座楼真是高啊! 2.It's too hight for me.这对我来讲太高了。 3.How high is Mt Everest?珠穆朗玛峰有多高? 4.The price reached a new high.价格又创最高记录了

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When, in 1960, still a student, 1960年我还是学生时, I got a traveling fellowship 拿到出国留学的奖学金, to study housing in North America. 研究北美的住宅建筑。 We traveled the country. 我们游遍美国, We saw public

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

Be careful if you're planning to take any 'selfies' in front of iconic monuments this summer. A new EU law banning the posting of photographs on social media sites containing public buildings could be in force by next week. 今夏如果您想在地标建

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

This is the path less taken This is the life less lived This is where You have placed me And You want all I have to give There were times when I was lonely There were times when I was scared There were moments when I stopped chasing And I was frozen

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QINGDAO, Shandong, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's largest rail vehicle maker, CSR Corp. Ltd, over the weekend launched its first test train that features speeds reaching up to 500 km per hour. The six-car train with a fairshaped head is the newest in th

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asian-pacific business network
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