April Fool's Day While popular in the U.S., the April Fool's Day tradition is even more prevalent in European countries, such as France and Great Britain. Although the roots of the traditional trickings are unclear, the French and the British both ha

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 四级晨读英语美文

US Astronomer Proposes 364-Day Calendar 美天文学家提出一年为364天的历法 An American physicist is proposing a new calendar in which important days could fall on the same day of the week y

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According to the ABC News of October 20, a recent research has showed that the mythological date of the end of days may be off by 50 to 100 years。 To convert the ancient Mayan calendar to the Gregorian (or modern) calendar, scholars use a numerical

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公历一年有12个月,但不少人并不知道12 个月的英语名称的来历。公历起源于古罗马历法。罗马的英语原来只有10 个月,古罗马皇帝决定增加两个月放在年尾,后来朱里斯*凯撒大帝把这两个月

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我们中国人的传统节日一般是按照阴历来过节的,阴历用英语怎么说呢?除了阴历还有什么历法呢?听小编为你一一道来。 我们中国人的传统节日一般是按照阴历来过节的,阴历用英语怎么说

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This Saturday night at eight thirty, all the lights will be shut off at the Tokyo Tower in Japan. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the Eiffel Tower in Paris are also expected to go dark. So is the

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But, as powerful as Rome may have been, they couldn't change the rules of the universe, and neither of these calendars add up to anywhere close to the time it takes us to orbit the sun. After a few years, the seasons are out of whack with the months,

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