新概念优美背诵短文 Unit8:American Revolution

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit8:American Revolution The American Revolution was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated evolution rather than outright revol...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit23:Ford

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit23:Ford 23 Ford Although Henry Ford’s name is closely associated with the concept of mass production, he should receive equal credit for introducing labor practices as early as 1913 that would be considered advanced even by today’s standards. Safety measures were improved, and the work day was reduced to eight hours, compared with the ten-or twelve...

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新概念优美背诵短文 Unit11:Archaeology

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit11:Archaeology Archaeology Archaeology is a source of history, not just a bumble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts, Just as much as any other historian, an archaeologist studies and tries to reconstitute the process that has created the human world in whic...

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美丽英文诵读(34)Of beauty 论美

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best, in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect.美德好比宝石,它在朴素背景的衬托下反而更华丽;同样,一个打扮并不华贵却端庄严肃而有美德者是令人肃然起敬的。Neither is it almost seen, that very beautiful persons are otherwise of grea...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit22:Collectibles

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit22:Collectibles 22 Collectibles Collectibles have been a part of almost every culture since ancient times. Whereas some objects have been collected for their usefulness, others have been selected for their aesthetic beauty alone. In the United States, the kinds of collectibles currently popular range from traditional objects such as stamps, coins, ...

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新概念优美背诵短文 Unit12:Archaeology

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit12:Museums 12 Museums From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future. In New York City alone, six major institutions ha...

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美丽英文诵读(34)A forever friend(永远的朋友)

A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Sometimes in life, You find a special friend; Someone who changes your life just by being part of it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can’t stop; Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open ...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit38:Topaz

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit38:Topaz 38 Topaz Topaz is a hard, transparent mineral. It is a compound of aluminum, silica, and fluorine. Gem topaz is valuable. Jewelers call this variety of the stone “precious topaz”. The best-known precious topaz gems range in color from rich yellow to light brown or pinkish red. Topaz is one of the hardest gem minerals. In the mineral table ...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit36:Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Sprea

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit36:Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Spreading 36.Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Spreading The theory of plate tectonics describes the motions of the lithosphere, the comparatively rigid outer layer of the Earth that includes all the crust and part of the underlying mantle. The lithosphere(n.[地]岩石圈)is divided into a few dozen plates of various sizes...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit49:Sleep

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit49:Sleep 49 Sleep Sleet 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 bre...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit48:Bacteria

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit48:Bacteria 48 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 mi...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit39:The Salinity of Ocean Waters

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit39:The Salinity of Ocean Waters 39 The Salinity of Ocean Waters If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only slightly from place to place. Nevertheless, some of these small changes are important. There are three basic processes that cause a change in oceanic salinity. One of these is the subtraction of water from the ocean ...

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奥巴马每周电视讲话:总统呼吁各方携手尽快落实移民体系改革法案

Hi everybody. 嗨,大家好。 Right now, the United States Senate is debating a bipartisan, commonsense bill that would be an important step toward fixing our broken immigration system. 现在美国的参议院正在就一项代表两党的普遍法案进行讨论。而这一法案是走向修补我们不完善移民体系的重要一步。 It's a bill that would continue to strengthen security at our borders, 这一法案将继续...

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奥巴马每周电视讲话:总统呼吁国会为经济发展努力

Hi, everybody. 嗨,大家好。 Over the past four and a half years, 回首过去的4年半, we've been fighting our way back from an economic crisis and punishing recession that cost millions of Americans their jobs, 我们用自己的方式击退了经济危机,惩罚了造成衰退的人,此次危机让数百万人失去工作、 their homes, and the sense of security they'd worked so hard to build. 失去家园...

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奥巴马每周电视讲话:总统呼吁确保2014成为推动经济增长的一年

Hi, everybody. 大家好! Yesterday, we learned that in 2013, our businesses created 2.2 million new jobs-including 87,000 last month. 昨天,我们了解到,在2013年,我们的企业创造了220万个新岗位—包括上月创造的87,000个。 Our unemployment rate is the lowest it has been since October 2008. 我们的失业率为2008年以来的最低水平。 And across our broader economy, there are signs of progr...

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奥巴马每周电视讲话:总统呼吁改善美国经济大环境

Hi, everybody. 大家好! As President, my top priority is rebuilding an economy where everybody who works hard has the chance to get ahead. 作为总统,我最首要的职责就是重建一个让所有辛勤工作的人都能取得成功的经济环境。 That's what I'll spend some time talking about on Monday, at the White House Summit on Working Families. 我将在周一举行的白宫工薪家庭峰会上就此话题谈论...

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奥巴马总统在西北大学凯洛格商学院发表关于经济的演讲

Hello, Evanston! (Applause.) Hello, Northwestern! (Applause.) Thank you so much. Everybody, have a seat. Have a seat. It is so good to be here. Go ‘Cats! (Applause.) I want to thank your president, Morty Schapiro, and the dean of the Kellogg Business School, Sally Blount, for having me. I brought along some guests. Your Governor, Pat Quinn, is here. (Applause.) Your Senator,...

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美文阅读 (305)为什么你应该更独立

When it comes to personal independence, there is no satisfaction comparable to the ability to pay your own bills. 谈到个人独立问题,没什么比自己养活自己更令人有成就感了。 Financial independence means that you control your income and expenditure and you are not answerable to anybody. 经济独立意味着你自己掌管开支,不需要对任何人有交代。 Independent people naturally tend to be ...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 汉斯·罗素林:东方崛起(6)

And if I would also look at India, you have another type of inequity, actually, in India. 我们再来看看印度,我们会看到另一种不平等。 The geographical, macro-geographical difference is not so big. 从地理的角度上来看,差距不大。 Uttar Pradesh, the biggest of the states here, is poorer and has a lower health than the rest of India. 北方邦,是印度的最大邦,比起其他邦来说是较为贫...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 汉斯·罗素林:东方崛起(2)

And I will now, here, onstage, try to predict when that will happen — 现在,我,将在这个台上, that Asia will regain its dominant position as the leading part of the world, as it used to be, over thousands of years. 来预测亚洲什么时候会重夺其导向世界的主导地位,正如过去数千年一般。 And I will do that by trying to predict precisely at what year the average income per pe...

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