模仿文本: Recently in America, exceptionalism has become the new name for this illness. All nations are exceptional, but some are more exceptional than others and America is the most exceptional of all. And then hatred of difference, notice - I

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(25) / 评论(0) 分类 高级-Advanced Listening

英国公投在即 或因退欧转变历史 These are uncertain times in a nation whose economy is the second largest in the European Union. The stakes are huge. There are warnings that leaving the 28-member bloc may cause the British pound to lose 1

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The Internet, in the year 2009: we send emails, make calls over the Internet, and discuss topics we take an interest in. Even our banking is going virtual. But what we take for granted today was only a vague idea 50 years ago. In order to understand

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提到日本,人们总是想到东京涩谷的繁华,或是富士山的神圣;但是,京都才是日本人的心灵故乡。凡有历史却已不是当下书写历史重地的城市,都有股悠然安逸的别致味道。今天就由我们带

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As a former frontier mining camp, Tombstone, Arizona has faced its share of threats and calamities over the years, earning it a reputation as the town too tough to die. Now the southwestern community is dealing with an official warning from the U.S.

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Our guest tonight is Howard Schultz, the chairman of Starbucks Coffee Company. 今晚我们的客人是星巴克咖啡公司的董事长,霍华德舒尔茨。 He has turned his passion for coffee into a multi billion dollar global business with sto

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AS IT IS 2014-12-31 Congress Approval Rating Near Record Low 国会支持率接近历史低点 The 113th United States Congress ended its work just before the winter holidays. Over the past two years, Congress approved just 202 laws. That was the sma

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Originally these graves had been dug into the rocks of the western mountains 最初,这些坟墓是建在西部山脉的岩石里面, but as the Egyptians moved northward they were obliged to build their cemeteries in the desert. 随着埃及人向

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He began his campaign for world-domination with the murder of all Roman citizens who happened to be in Asia Minor, men, women and children. Such an act, of course, meant war. The Senate equipped an army to march against the King of Pontus and punish

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The Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior is assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was 39 years old. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a p

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(20) / 评论(0) 分类 历史上的今天-2016年

Between Egypt and Mesopotamia there is a land of deep valleys and rich pastures. 在埃及和美索不达米亚之间有一片土地,那里有深谷和肥沃的牧场。 There, for thousands of years, herdsmen tended their flocks. 好几千年之久,

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Rice has been cultivated in China for thousands of years. 在中国,种植水稻的历史已有数千年。 It was from China that the techniques of rice cultivation spread throughout east Asia-Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. 随后,东亚地区

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Israel Set for Historic Withdrawal from Gaza 以色列历史性的举动——撤出加沙 Israel's withdrawal of all 21 Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and four small ones from the West Bank g

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This is the second cut of diplomatic ties between the two countries in nearly 30 years. Let's look at some of the big events in the rocky relationship between the two regional Islamic powers. In July, 1987, tens of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrim demons

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听耶鲁大学历史上最年轻的耶鲁世界学者谈谈中国体育。体育在中国人的心中确实有些特殊,也许如芮成钢所言成了一种外交手段或证明自己的方式。

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That is all very well, you will say, and no doubt it is a great virtue to care so much for moderation and perfection, but why should the Greeks have been the only people to develop this quality in olden times? For an answer I shall point to the way i

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Chapter 14 第十四章 The Greek cities 古希腊城邦 The Greek cities that were really states. 古希腊的城市其实是独立的国家 We modern people love the sound of the word big. We pride ourselves upon the fact that we belong to the bigg

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It was the small house within the high city-walls where his wife and children lived in safety. It was a complete world which covered no more than four or five acres of rocky land. Don't you see how these surroundings must have influenced a man in eve

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This new form of dramatic entertainment demanded a proper setting, and soon every Greek city owned a theatre, cut out of the rock of a nearby hill. The spectators sat upon wooden benches and faced a wide circle (our present orchestra where you pay th

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Chapter 16 第十六章 Greek life 古希腊人的生活 How the Greeks Lived 古希腊人是怎样生活的 But how, you will ask, did the ancient Greeks have time to look after their families and their business if they were forever running to the m

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