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新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit31:British Columbia 31 British Columbia British Columbia is the third largest Canadian provinces, both in area and population. It is nearly 1.5 times as large as Texas, and extends 800 miles(1,280km) north from the United States border. It includes Canada’s entire west coast and the islands just off the coast. Most of British Columbia is moun...
新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit21:The Origin of Sports 21 The Origin of Sports When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for , as we all have observed, the beasts play. Dogs and cats wrestle and play ball games. Fishes and birds dance. The apes have simple, pleasurable games. Frolicking infants, school c...
新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit46:Vision 46.Vision Human vision like that of other primates has evolved in an arboreal environment. In the dense complex world of a tropical forest, it is more important to see well that to develop an acute sense of smell. In the course of evolution members of the primate line have acquired large eyes while the snout has shrunk to give the eye an ...
So the kids give me the words, right? I put it into a narrative, which means that this paper is written in kidspeak. 所以孩子们给了这些文字，我把他们改成了叙述文，也就是说这份报告是用孩子的口吻写的。 It's not written by me. It's written by Amy and the other students in the class. 它不是我写的。是由Amy和班上的其他学生们一起写的。 As a consequence, this science paper b...
So I was trying to figure all that out, and I felt a little confused, and I said so on my blog, 所以我一直都想弄清楚这是怎么一回事，我感到有些困惑，也有写在博客上。 and I said that I wanted to start a website for teenage girls that was not this kind of one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing 我说我想，为青少年女生办一个网站，不是那种只展现单一的强势特点的。 becaus...
So, this game is very simple. All you have to do is read what you see. Right? So, I'm going to count to you, so we don't all do it together. 好的，这个游戏非常简单。你们只要把看到的念出来就好了，好吗？ 好，我接着会倒数，这样我们就可以一起念出来了。 Okay, one, two, three. Can you read this? Amazing. What about this one? One, two, three. You are not reading this. 好，...
Then again, who's to say that certain types of irrational thinking aren't exactly what the world needs? 话说回来，谁能说我们这个世界不正是需要某些类型的非理性思维吗？ Maybe you've had grand plans before, but stopped yourself, thinking, "That's impossible," or "That costs too much," or "That won't benefit me." 也许你以前有过宏...
It took four months to do the science, two years to get it published. 这个科学实验只做了四个月，但要让它发表却花了两年。 Typical science, actually, right? So this makes Amy and her friends the youngest published scientists in the world. 真是典型的科学，是不是？所以这也让Amy和她的朋友们成了世界上最年轻的已发表作品的科学家。 What was the feedback like? Well, it was published t...
I don't like to acknowledge a problem without also acknowledging those who work to fix it, so just wanted to acknowledge shows like "Mad Men", movies like "Bridesmaids", 我喜欢在认识一些问题的同时，也去了解那些努力解决问题的人，所以我喜欢看“广告狂人”这类电视剧，和“伴娘”这类电影， whose female characters or protagonists are complex, multifaceted. Lena ...
Now here, I want to share the stage with someone quite special. Right? 现在，我想与一位有些特别的人共享这舞台。可以吗？ She was one of the young people who was involved in this study, and she's now one of the youngest published scientists in the world. Right? 她是参与了那项研究的年轻人之一，而且目前她是世界上有过刊物发表的最年轻科学家之一。对吗？ She will now, once she c...
Now, I want to start with a question: When was the last time you were called "childish"? 首先我要问大家一个问题：上一回别人说你幼稚是什么时候？ For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. 像我这样的小孩，可能经常会被人说成是幼稚。 Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being nor...
Four years ago today, exactly, actually, I started a fashion blog called Style Rookie. 四年前的今天，恰巧是同一天，我开办了一个时尚博客，名叫菜鸟风尚（Style Rookie）。 Last September of 2011, I started an online magazine for teenage girls called Rookiemag.com. 2011年9月，我创立了一本在线杂志，面向青少年女生，名叫Rookiemag.com。 My name's Tavi Gevinson, and the title of m...
The puzzle we came up with was an if-then rule. 我们想出的难题是个”如果-则“规则。 We asked the bees to learn not just to go to a certain color, but to a certain color flower only when it's in a certain pattern. 我们要求蜜蜂学会不仅仅是飞向某种特定颜色，而是飞向形成了特定图案的特定颜色的花朵。 They were only rewarded if they went to the yellow flowers if the yellow flower...
Now, we're going to do a little demonstration, right? You have to close your eyes, and you have to point where you hear me clapping. All right? 我们现在做一些简单的说明，好吗？你得闭上你的眼睛，然后指出我拍手的位置。好吗？ Okay, how about if everyone over there shouts. One, two, three? 好的，那么如果那儿的大家一起喊呢。一二三？ Brilliant. Now, open your eyes. We'll d...
Now, our inherent wisdom doesn't have to be insider's knowledge. Kids already do a lot of learning from adults, and we have a lot to share. 我们先天的智慧，堪比内行人的知识。小孩已经从大人身上学到许多，而我们也有很多东西可以和大人共享。 I think that adults should start learning from kids. Now, I do most of my speaking in front of an education crowd– teachers an...
So what is evolution's answer to the problem of uncertainty? It's play. Now play is not simply a process. 所以进化给出不确定性的答案是什么呢？那就是玩乐。玩不仅仅是一个简单的过程。 Experts in play will tell you that actually it's a way of being. Play is one of the only human endeavors where uncertainty is actually celebrated. 玩乐的专家会告诉你，这其实是一种存在...
But the way progress happens, is because new generations and new eras grow and develop and become better than the previous ones. 但进步是因新的一代人和新的时期而发生，不断的进步和发展，并超越之前的年代。 It's the reason we're not in the Dark Ages anymore. 这就是为什么我们不再处于黑暗时代。 No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportuni...
So I'm not saying, "Be like us", and "We're perfect role models", because we're not, but we just want to help represent girls in a way that shows those different dimensions. 所以我不是在说，“学我们的样子” 和“我们是完美的典范”，因为我们不是，我们只是想帮助展现女孩们多姿多彩的另一面。 I mean, we have articles called "On Taking Yourself Seri...
I loved to write from the age of four, and when I was six, my mom bought me my own laptop equipped with Microsoft Word. 四岁的时候我就喜欢上写作，六岁的时候，我妈给我买了台装有微软Word软件的个人手提电脑。 Thank you, Bill Gates, and thank you, Ma. I wrote over 300 short stories on that little laptop, and I wanted to get published. 谢谢你比尔·盖茨！也谢谢你，妈咪！我用那个小手...
And sometimes, when things don't go our way, we get a little bit annoyed, right? But we're talking about perception here, right? 而且有时，当事情不按我们想的那样发展，我们就会不爽，对吗？但是我们现在讨论的是感知，对吗？ And perception underpins everything we think, we know, we believe, our hopes, our dreams, the clothes we wear, falling in love, everything begins wit...