发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 一口气英语

But that's getting harder to do, because cities are becoming smooth. 但这样的机会已经越来越少了,因为城市正在变得光滑。 New downtowns sprout towers that are almost always made of concrete and steel and covered in glass. 高塔在

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(37) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲设计篇

The firm Ennead clad the Utah Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City in copper and zinc, Ennead公司用铜和锌包裹了位于盐湖城的犹他自然历史博物馆, ores that have been mined in the area for 150 years and that also camouflage

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(31) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲设计篇

But the truth is that these are mostly one-offs, boutique projects, not easily reproduced at a global scale. 但事实是这些往往都只是个例,精品工程没办法轻易的在全球范围内普及。 And that is the point. When you use mater

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(24) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲设计篇

But glass has a limited ability to be expressive. 但是玻璃的表现力毕竟是有局限的。 This is a section of wall framing a plaza in the pre-Hispanic city of Mitla, in southern Mexico. 这是在墨西哥南部前西班牙城米特拉一个广

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(33) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲设计篇

Now, I'm not against glass. It's an ancient and versatile material. 我并不是反对使用玻璃。玻璃毕竟是一种古老且通用性强的材料。 It's easy to manufacture and transport and install and replace and clean. 它们易于大量生产

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(27) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲设计篇

So one contemporary equivalent of the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca is the Place de la Dfense in Paris, 说一个与萨拉曼卡的马约尔广场相较衡的现代广场,巴黎的协和广场, a windswept, glass-walled open space that office workers

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲设计篇

Let me give you an example of how a city's surfaces affect the way we live in it. 我来举个例子看看一个城市的外观是如何影响人们生活方式的吧。 When I visited Salamanca in Spain, I gravitated to the Plaza Mayor at all hours

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(31) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲设计篇

Imagine that when you walked in here this evening, 想象一下当你在今晚步入这里时, you discovered that everybody in the room looked almost exactly the same: ageless, raceless, generically good-looking. 你发现所有在场的人看上去

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(28) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲设计篇

The descendants of longtime urban dwellers show increased genetically driven resistance to tuberculosis, due to evolutionary selection pressure over millennia. Christopher Intagliata reports 城市长久居住民的后代,经过数千年的自然选择

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 60秒科学

Does City Living Hurt Mental Health? From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. 这里是VOA慢速英语健康生活报道。 Are people happier in nature with blue skies overhead and fresh green grass underfoot? Could noisy stre

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(26) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(四)月

Who is it? Open the door. It's me. I can't find the key. You're always so careless. Oh, thank you. I am exhausted. Will you bring me a cup of tea? Okay, but I haven't prepare supper. So let's eat out. What do you want to eat? Noodles. How about you?

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(22) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语900句

Singapore retains its title as the world's most expensive city for a fourth consecutive year, according to the latest cost-of-living survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit. 根据经济学人智库发布的最新生活成本调查,新加坡连续

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(29) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Stand-still traffic, air pollution, crowded streets, endless gray sidewalks. Sound familiar? 交通停滞、空气污染、马路拥挤、无休无止的灰色人行道。是不是听着耳熟? Some studies have shown that city dwellers may have a

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

AS IT IS 2013-09-14 Street Photographer Documents Urban Life and Art 街头摄影家记录城市生活和艺术 Hi there, and welcome to As It Is, our daily show for people learning English. Im June Simms in Washington. Today, we are celebrating 10 y

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(九)月

过年也累啊! 节后开始正常上班,大家还适应吗?是不是有点感觉这放假比平时上班还辛苦呢?春节回家团聚是必需的,不过假期太短,来回奔波也实在是很累。今天,咱们就来说说这个累字

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Tom: Jess, I love hearing you talk about the different cities, you've been working in. Were they all very expensive places to live? Jess: No, they weren't all expensive. The first city I lived in when I moved away from Britain was Budapest in Hungary

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(21) / 评论(0) 分类 英语趣味课堂

Listen to the statements and check the place where they think it is a better place to stay. 1.Convenience is very important to me. I rather live near by a supermarket than a farm. 2.Noise and pollution are the factors why I consider staying away from

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力练习题

Listen to the people's descriptions and circle the place they are talking about. 1.Since I was 13, my family moved out from the place. I often went back there once or twice a year. I miss the place and the old neighbors and friends a lot. My childhoo

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力练习题

词汇畅谈(Vocabulary Build-up):dig 口语训练营(Everyday English):城市生活与农村生活的利弊 语法天地(Grammar Talk):because, since, as, for的用法区别

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味青春英语