新东方背诵文选 Lesson 10:Types of Speech

Types of Speech Standard usage includes those words and expressions understood, used, and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any situation regardless of the level of formality. As such, these words and expressions are well defined and listed in standard dictionaries. Colloquialisms, on the other hand, are familiar words and idioms that are understood by ...

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朗读英语美文(217)《八月十五日看潮五绝》

时至中秋 天朗气清 月圆皎洁 阖家团圆 今日为中秋遇上国庆的双节在一起的“中国节”, 在此,孟叔也祝屏幕前的你 中秋国庆双节快乐、好事双来,安康如意! 《八月十五日看潮五绝》 苏轼 定知玉兔十分圆,化作霜风九月寒。 寄语重门休上钥,夜潮流向月中看。 Watching the Tidal Bore on Mid-autumn Festival The moon with jade-rabbit must be full to behold As in ninth month, the wind is blowing frost...

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 42:Coal-fired power plants

42.Coal-fired power plants   The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill, and it fueled the earliest power stations. (which were set up at the end of the nineteenth century by Edison himself). As more power...

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朗读英语美文(218)《你见或者不见我》

《你见或者不见我》这首诗歌可以挖掘自2008年,这首诗被刊登在《读者》第20期,改题作《见与不见》,因为风格相似被刊物署名为仓央嘉措著,因此多被讹传为仓央嘉措所作。通过电影我们知道了这首诗之后,大家通俗的称之为《你见或者不见我》。但是这首诗歌的真实名字是班扎古鲁白玛的沉默,作者是扎西拉姆多多。 It doesn’t matter if you see me or not 你见,或者不见我 I’m right there 我就...

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美文阅读 (487)星光之城

City of stars 星光之城啊 Are you shining just for me? 你是否只愿为我闪耀 City of stars 星光之城啊 There’s so much that I can’t see 世间有太多不可明了 Who knows? 谁又能明了 I felt it from the first embrace I shared with you 我感觉到自你我初次拥抱时 That now our dreams 所怀有的那些梦想 They’ve finally come true 都已一一实现 City of stars 噢星光之城 Just one t...

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 25:Movie Music

Movie Music Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied...

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美文阅读 (471)河边夏夜

Summer Night, Riverside by Sara Teasdale 河边夏夜–莎拉·蒂斯黛尔 Autoplay next video in the wild soft summer darkness 不羁的夏夜里,电视兀自放着 How many and many a night we two together 你我就这么坐在一起,多少次 Sat in the park and watched the Hudson 看着哈德逊河披上银纱 Wearing her lights like golden spangles 偶尔闪烁着光点 Glinting on black satin 墨一般的河水上 The ...

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 24:Piano

Piano The ancestry of the piano can be traced to the early keyboard instruments of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries — the spinet, the dulcimer, and the virginal. In the seventeenth century the organ, the clavichord, and the harpsichord became the chief instruments of the keyboard group, a supremacy they maintained until the piano supplanted them at the end of the...

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 27:Scientific Theories

Scientific Theories In science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events that are related. A theory often involves an imaginary model that helps scientists picture the way an observed event could be produced. A good example of this is found in the kinetic molecular theory, in which gases are pictured as being made up of many small particles that are in constan...

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 9:Suburbanization

Suburbanization If by “suburb” is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved about on foot and goods were conv...

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 49:Sleep

Sleep Sleep is part of a person’s daily activity cycle. There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles. If you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows. When you fist drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, you temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing will slow and become quite...

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美文阅读 (466)孤单斗士

The Lone Soldier by Bryan Gunn 孤单斗士–布赖恩·冈恩 I walk with no man, I always walk alone 我向来独行 My soul made of fire and my heart of stone 火淬的灵魂和磐石般的心 I have no pain, ignoring all that I feel 让我不畏疼痛,无为所动 With bones of iron and nerves of steel 钢筋铁骨,铮铮不屈 This is what I portray, fooling you all 但这只是伪装 My emotions so strong, my d...

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美文阅读 (462)向死而生

Into Death Bravely by Jimmy Santiago Baca 向死而生–吉米·圣地亚哥·巴卡 Winter throws his great white shield on the ground 冬日向大地掷下那雪白的坚盾 Breaking thin arms of twisting branches 折了曲折孱弱的残枝 And then howls on the north side of the Black Mesa 在黑岭之北呼嗥 A deep, throaty laughter 那是一声低沉沙哑的长啸 Because of him 曾因它的存在 We have to sell our ca...

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 20:The Historical Significance of A

The Historical Significance of American Revolution The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events covering a number of years, a multiplicity of persons, and distant localities as the expression of one intellectual or social movement; yet the historical process which culminated in...

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美文阅读 (472)在这浪漫的月圆夜

On This Romantic Full Moon Night by Dipankar Sadhukhan 在这浪漫的月圆夜–迪潘卡·瑟德忽克汗 My thoughts seem to be paralyzed 思绪停滞 And my poetic mind like a physician 但诗意渐浓 Tries to cure them instead of writing verses 虽下笔无言,却想像万千 The moon is walking but staring at me 圆月与我相望结伴 And the romantic night is laughing at me silently 而行浪漫的夜与我相...

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美文阅读 (475)永不逝去的希望

Hope Is Not Lost by Jessica Millsaps 永不逝去的希望–杰西卡·米尔萨普斯 When the desperation hit 当绝望袭来 When the people cried in the streets 当人们泪洒街头 When everything felt at loss 当一切都迷失之时 Hope stayed, even though fleeing would be easier 虽然放弃是个简单的答案,但希望仍在 When the eyes were full of tears 当泪水填满眼眶 When kids and families were torn ap...

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 5:The Beginning of Drama

The Beginning of Drama There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as follows. In the beginning, human beings viewed the natural forces of the world-even the seasonal changes-as unpredictable, and they sought through various...

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美文阅读 (482)美丽的双眸

Blue eyes so full of life 美丽的双眸充满生的力量 A wonder all of their own 靛蓝色的奇观 So beautiful and precious 如此的美丽,如此珍贵 Oh, to see those eyes smile, such a beautiful sight 这双眼包含的笑意 How I love to look into those eyes 令人沉醉 When I look into them 当我望向眼底 A kind of peace comes over me 只看到平静与柔和 Beautiful blue eyes 美丽的双眸 Always haunting ...

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朗读英语美文(203)悄悄告诉你,为什么我总是如此快乐

Optimism isn’t believing everything is great, “乐观”并不是指,相信一切都非常好 it’s believing that there is always will be a reason to be happy. 而是相信,一定可以找到一个理由,让自己开心起来 People wonder why I’m so happy all the time 许多人感到疑问,为什么我总是那么快乐 and take things in stride. 一切都能泰然处之 I’m an optimist through and through....

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 48:Bacteria

Bacteria Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across. Rod-shaped bacteria are usually from two to four microns long, while rounded ones are generally one micron in diameter. Thus if you enlarged a r...

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