新东方背诵文选 Lesson 39:The Salinity of Ocean Waters

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 by means of evaporation— conversion of liquid water to w...

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英语精美散文欣赏:What I Have Lived for

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ec...

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英文欣赏:Virtue

Virtue 美德 Sweet day,so cool,so calm,so bright! 甜美的白昼,如此凉爽、安宁、明媚! The bridal of the earth and sky- 天地间完美的匹配—– The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; 今宵的露珠儿将为你的消逝而落泪; For thou must die. 因为你必须离去。 Sweet rose,whose hue angry and brave, 美丽的玫瑰,色泽红润艳丽, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, 令匆匆而过的人拭目而视...

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美丽英文诵读(26)On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth(

No young man believes he shall ever die. It was a saying of my brother’s, and a fine one. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amend for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods. One half of time indeed is flown–the other half remains in store for us with all its countless treasures; for there is no line drawn, and we see no...

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美国经典英文演讲100篇:Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work — a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part ...

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Czech Prime Minister visits NATO

Czech Prime Minister visits NATO NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Press point with NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Mr. Stanislav Gross Moderator: Ladies and gentlemen, the Prime Minister and the Secretary General will make brief opening statements and then go to your questions. Secretary General. de Hoo...

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US president addresses the nation in prime ti

US president addresses the nation in prime time press conference THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Before I take your questions, let me speak with the American people about the situation in Iraq. This has been tough weeks in that country. Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being instigated...

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