• 大本钟将接受维修“静音”四年

    17-08-20 Big Ben will fall silent next week for four years as major conservation works are carried out on the tower which houses the bell, UK Parliament announced Monday. 英国国会周一宣布,由于大本钟所在的伊丽莎白塔开始大规模维修翻新,大本钟从下周起会停响,...

  • 几个与猴子有关的短语

    17-03-21 monkey wrench 活动扳手 为什么将活动扳手称为monkey wrench?确切原因尚有争议。在实际应用中多少有种不正当行为的意味,如to throw a monkey wrench in the works(即是指一个工人在工作时不小心把螺旋钳掉到正在运转的机器中,使得机器停摆)。该词组及其变式相对于...

  • 几种很常用的地道口语

    17-01-24 1.Without further ado 废话少数,言归正传 在国外视频中经常可以听到,往往开头先介绍这个视频讲什么的,再切入正题,这是就会说Without further ado, lets get started.当然在其他地方也可以用。 2.I figure.. 我猜/我觉得... 3.礼貌地形容外表 (1)形容人矮,short...

  • 四成英国人不喜欢莎士比亚的作品

    16-04-24 He may be the crowning jewel in Britains cultural crown, with commemorative events to mark to the 400th anniversary of his death dominating museums, galleries, television and theatre for months. 莎士比亚也许是英国文化的瑰宝,连续好几个月博物馆、画廊...

  • 奥巴马最爱的8本小说

    16-03-02 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Song of Solomon ends up on many to-read book lists because of the author's 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, and because the book itself won the prestigious National Book Critics Fiction award in 1977. Somewhat like t...

  • 名字会以各种方式影响我们的生活

    15-04-08 Our given names influence our lives in all sorts of strange ways, affecting everything from where we choose to live to what we do for a living. That's the takeaway of a fascinating new video from PBS Digital Studios' BrainCraft series. 我们的名字会...

  • 塞内加尔雕塑家乌斯曼·索乌获法国嘉奖

    13-12-14 Senegal sculptor Ousmane Sow has become the first African to join France's Academy of Fine Arts. 塞内加尔雕塑家乌斯曼索乌成为第一位获得法国艺术学院嘉奖的非洲人。 Sow's knowledge of anatomy helped define his work The 78-year-old, considered one of Af...

  • 进化论在自然界如何体现

    13-06-16 Many students have difficulty understanding and explaining how evolution operates. In search of better ways to teach the subject, researchers at Michigan State University developed complete evolutionary case studies spanning the gamut(整个范围) fr...

  • 塞内加尔出土大量古代手工艺品

    12-09-05 Pieces of jewellery, pottery and iron tools dating back thousands of years have been discovered in Senegal's capital, Dakar, researchers say. 研究人员称,有数千年历史的珠宝碎片、陶器、铁器在塞内加尔首都达喀尔被发现。 The ancient objects were found i...

  • 巴西监狱推新规 读书减刑

    12-06-30 巴西监狱系统近期推出一项减刑新规,读一本书减四天刑。这项新规将在巴西四所联邦监狱实行,服刑人员如果能在一年内读完12本文学、哲学、科学或者经典类著作,便可获得最高48天的减刑。 Brazil will offer inmates in its crowded federal penitentiary(监狱) system...