Skyscrapers and Environment In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists po
In the late eighteenth century, battles raged in almost every corner of Europe, as well as in the Middle East, south Africa ,the West Indies, and Latin America. In reality, however, there was only one
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 a
19.children's numerical skills people appear to born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturi
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 thre
"She had forgotten how the August night" By Edna St. Vincent Millay 她已经忘记了那个八月的夜晚--埃德娜·文森特·默蕾 She had forgotten how the August night was level as a lake beneath the moon 她已经忘记了那个八月的夜晚，夜平静的像月下的湖面 In wh
Lesson 6:Television Television-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication a
Telecommuting Telecommuting-- substituting the computer for the trip to the job ---- has been hailed as a solution to all kinds of problems related to office work. For workers it promises freed
Vision by 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 se
Botany Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more t
Modern American Universities Before the 1850's, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose pr
What’s the point, wasting time 有什么意义？不过是浪费时间 But how many times you stand up for yourself 但多少次你为自己打气 Make a point, you have a reason 你说，你有自己的理由 You know, it’s not fair 你知道,世界并不公平 Your life, belongs to
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 a
Prepare for disappointed 做好失望的准备 I only needed a soul 我仅仅需要一个伴侣 To share, to kiss and to hold 来接受我的轻吻和拥抱 But only found this dark hole 但我只有这空荡的房间 Someone unbearably cold 和这难忍的孤寂 And though I tried to
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
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 mu
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
《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
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
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
