英文欣赏:世界上最大的家庭(上)

The World's Biggest Family 世界上最大的家庭 Mr. and Mrs. Albina don't know where all their grown-up children are living now. 阿宾娜夫妇不知道他们已成年的孩子们现在在哪里生活。 They aren't sure how old all their children are either. Ask them, for example, 他们也不确定他们孩子们多大了。 "How old is your daughter Susanna?" and they say, "We're not...

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英文欣赏:世界上最大的家庭(下)

Mrs. Albina now has 16 more girls, including the twins who are 15 months old. 阿宾娜太太现在有16多个女儿,包括5个月大的双胞胎。 The oldest Albina children are in their 30s and 40s. They're on their own now, 阿宾娜年纪最大的孩子已经有三、四十岁了,他们自食其力, but 18 of the kids still live with their parents in a two-room hut. 但有18个孩子仍然和阿宾娜夫妇住在一套两居室...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (95)开普勒的世界 Kepler's World

Kepler’s World 开普勒的世界 Much has been made of the 400th anniversary this year of Galileo pointing a telescope at the moon and jotting down what he saw. 400年前伽利略用望远镜观测月球并简要记录了观测结果,400年后的今天我们很隆重地纪念了这一历史性事件。 But 2009 is also the 400th anniversary of the publication by Johannes Kepler,a German mathematician and astronomer,o...

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奥巴马每周电视讲话:总统呼吁确保美国引领世界开拓新边疆(3)

And it’s why, over the last eight years, we’ve modernized the government’s approach to innovation for the 21st Century. 也因此,在过去的8年里,我们让政府在21世纪的创新方式上现代化。 We’ve jumpstarted a clean energy revolution and unleashed the potential of precision medicine. 我们快速启动了清洁能源革命,释放了精密医学的潜力。 We’ve par...

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奥巴马每周电视讲话:总统呼吁确保美国引领世界开拓新边疆(2)

That’s why it’s so backward when some folks choose to stick their heads in the sand about basic scientific facts. 也因此,当一些人就基本的科学事实都逃避现实,是如此的落后。 It’s not just that they’re saying that climate change a hoax or trotting out a snowball on the Senate floor. 不仅仅他们在说,气候变化是骗局,或者在参议院炫耀冬天的雪球。 I...

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奥巴马每周电视讲话:总统呼吁确保美国引领世界开拓新边疆(1)

Hi everybody. On Thursday, I traveled to Pittsburgh for the White House Frontiers Conference, 大家好。周四,我来到匹斯堡参加白宫前沿大会。 where some of America’s leading minds came together 在那里,一些美国的领袖人物聚在一起, to talk about how we can empower our people through science to lead our communities, our country, and our world into tomorrow. 探...

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新概念英语初中早读 (65)孩子眼中的世界

Children’s Eyes 孩子眼中的世界 What kind of world is it my friend that little children see? 朋友,透过孩子的眼睛他们看到的是怎样的世界 I wonder if they see God first because they just believe? 我不知道他们最先看到的,是不是上帝因为他们相信上帝 Do they see strength in caring eyes who watch them as they play 在玩耍的时候,他们有没有透过那些关爱的眼...

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智慧人生篇章 (56)世界的奥运

When I’m sitting in the Multi-faith Centre at the Athlete’s Village I can look around at the diverse representation of humanity I am with. We are men and women, younger and older from almost every continent. Some are very fit world class athletes and others of us, me included, are slightly over-weight middle-aged has-beens. Some believe in God as one distinct per...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(1)

I’ve been thinking a lot about the world recently and how it’s changed over the last 20, 30, 40 years. 最近我常常思考我们的世界以及它在过去的20,30,40年里经历了何等的转变。 Twenty or 30 years ago, if a chicken caught a cold and sneezed and died in a remote village in East Asia, 20或30年前,如果在东亚一个遥远村落里,一只鸡患了感冒,打个喷嚏然后死了, ...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(3)

This is clearly not a good arrangement. We clearly need to change it. 这明显不是个良好的形势。我们明显需要改变现状。 We clearly need to find ways of encouraging countries to start working together a little bit better. 我们明显需要找到一些方式以鼓励国家之间可以共同合作得更好。 And why won’t they do that? Why is it that our leaders still persist in looking i...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(6)

So a couple of years ago, I thought I would take some time out and speak to that gigantic database and ask it, 所以几年以后,我认为我可以抽出些时间来跟那个庞大的数据库聊聊,问问它, why do some people prefer one country more than another? 为什么有些人相比于另一个国家,更喜欢一个国家? And the answer that the database gave me completely staggered me. It was 6.8. ...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(9)

Now that’s the Good Country Index. What’s it there for? 这就是好国家指数。它有什么目的? Well, it’s there really because I want to try to introduce this word, or reintroduce this word, into the discourse. 它存在的目的是因为我想尝试,想介绍这个词,或重新介绍这个词,在我们的语境中。 I’ve had enough hearing about competitive countries. 我...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(4)

But actually, aren’t most of us not really so very good at empathy? 但事实上,我们大多数人难道不是缺乏同情心吗? Oh sure, we’re very good at empathy when it’s a question of dealing with people who kind of look like us 当然,我们非常有同情心,当问题出在那些跟我们长得差不多, and kind of walk and talk and eat and pray and wear like us, 走路、...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(10)

That’s what I would like you to do, and I’d like you to use it as a stick with which to beat your politicians. 这是我希望你做的,我希望你用它当一根棍子来鞭策你的政党。 When you elect them, when you reelect them, when you vote for them, when you listen to what they’re offering you, 当你选举他们或重选他们的时候,当你为他们投票,听他们说他们能给你带...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(8)

Now the other thing you’ll notice about the top 10 there is, 另外一件你注意到的前十名的事情是, of course, they’re all, apart from New Zealand, Western European nations. 当然,除了新西兰以外,它们都是欧州国家。 They’re also all rich. This depressed me, 它们也很富有。这让我很沮丧, because one of the things that I did not want to discover ...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(7)

And you’re waiting for me to tell you which one comes top. 你在等我告诉你哪个国家是第一名。 And I’m going to tell you, but first of all I want to tell you precisely what I mean when I say a good country. 我会告诉你,但首先让我告诉你我对于一个好国家的精确定义是什么。 I do not mean morally good. 我并不是说道德上的好。 When I say that Country X is...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(5)

And so you may say, well, given all of that, why then doesn’t it work? 你可能说,就算这样,为什么不奏效呢? Why can we not make our politicians change? Why can’t we demand them? 为什么我们无法让政党改变?为什么我们无法要求他们? Well I, like a lot of us, spend a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to make people change, 我,就像我们中间许多人,花很多时间...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(2)

So in a nutshell, that’s the challenge that we all face today at this interesting point in history. 所以简单来说,这就是我们所有人今天面临的挑战,在这个有意思的历史时期。 That’s clearly what we’ve got to do next. 这很明显是我们接下来要做的。 We’ve somehow got to get our act together and we’ve got to figure out how to globalize the solutions bett...

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美文阅读 (214)我们的世界

Another day 又是孤寂一日 Without your smile 没有你甜美的微笑相伴 Another day just passes by 又是空虚一日轻轻飘散远去 But now I know 但如今我已明了 How much it means 那是如此的重要 For you to stay 让你留下 Right here with me 在此与我厮守 The time we spent apart will make our love grow stronger 我们分离之际当令我们的爱越发成熟 But it hurt so bad I cant take it any longer 但它...

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美文阅读 (390)多么美妙的世界

What A Wonderful World — Bob Thiele & George David Weiss 多么美妙的世界–鲍勃·泰尔斯&乔治·大卫·维斯 I see trees of green red roses too 我看见绿树和红玫瑰 I see them bloom for me and you 我看见他们为你我开放 And I think to myself what a wonderful world 我情不自禁地想到,这是一个多么美妙的世界 I see skies of blue and clouds of white ...

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