• Hospitality 热情好客

    12-12-19 The hostess apologized to her unexpected guest for serving an apple-pie without any cheese. The little boy of the family left the room quietly for a moment and returned with a piece of cheese which he laid on the guest's plate. The visitor smiled, p...

  • 印度洋板块正在分裂

    12-09-27 The sequence of huge earthquakes that struck off the coast of Sumatra in April may signal the creation of a new tectonic plate boundary. 四月份苏门答腊岛海岸发生的大地震可能预示着新地壳构造板块的形成。 Scientists give the assessment in this week's N...

  • 大地震是地壳板块断裂的部分表现

    12-09-27 Seismologists(地震学家) have known for years that the Indo-Australian plate of Earth's crust is slowly breaking apart, but they saw it in action last April when at least four faults broke in a magnitude-8.7 earthquake that may be the largest of it...

  • 板块构造论适用于火星

    12-08-10 For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics(板块构造论) existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, which involves the movement of huge crustal plates benea...

  • 人类起源于东非大裂谷

    12-03-27 The huge changes in Earth's crust that influenced human evolution are being redefined, according to research published March 26 in Nature Geoscience. The Great Rift Valley of East Africa -- the birthplace of the human species -- may have taken much...

  • 马里亚纳海沟地震活动勘测

    12-03-23 Last month, Doug Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis, and two WUSTL students were cruising the tropical waters of the western Pacific above the Mariana trench aboard the research vessel Thomas G...

  • 大陆板块碰撞:5千万年的传说

    12-03-01 Fifty million years ago, India slammed into Eurasia(欧亚大陆) , a collision that gave rise to the tallest landforms on the planet, the Himalaya Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau. India and Eurasia continue to converge(聚合) today, though at an e...

  • 中大陆断层引发地震的原因

    10-08-02 A new theory developed at Purdue University may solve the mystery of why the New Madrid fault, which lies in the middle of the continent and not along a tectonic plate(地质构造板块) boundary, produces large earthquakes such as the ones that shook...

  • The Golden Plate 金盘子

    10-07-28 Once upon a time in a place called Seri, there were two salesmen of pots and pans and hand-made trinkets(小装饰品) . They agreed to divide the town between them. They also said that after one had gone through his area, it was all right for the oth...

  • Does Anyone Want a Nice Clean Plate?

    09-12-16 Does Anyone Want a Nice Clean Plate? Peter was ten years old. One day his friend Paul said to him, I'm going to have a birthday party on Saturday, Peter. Can you you come? Peter asked his mother, and she said, Yes, you can go. She phoned Paul's moth...