The History of Christmas in America 美国圣诞节的历史 In the first half of the 19th century, Christmas was a very different kind of holiday than it is today. People did not have a set way of celebrating. Christmas was not even an official holi

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史蒂芬品克通过图表展示从古至今暴力使用的频率的下降,并且声称尽管今天的世界看上去很不太平,伊拉克、达尔富尔等地区更是战乱不断,但实际上,现在人类正处于历史上最和平的时期

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1999 翻译延伸 5、It applies equally to traditional historians who view history as only the external and internal criticism of sources and to social science historians who equate their activity with specific techniques. 【分析】 复合句。句

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Better not to ignore the past but learn from it instead. Otherwise, history has a way of repeating itself. 最好不要忽略过去,而是从中得到些教训,否则 历史会不断重复上演。--《绯闻女孩》 图片1

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January 21st, 1793. In Paris, the French Revolution turns bloody as King Louis XVI condemned for treason is executed on the guillotine. 1924. Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who founded the Soviet Union, the worlds first Communist state, di

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But I also believe given the success we have had in the emerging markets that appear to be right for Starbucks. 当然我也相信从目前星巴克已开店的成功来看 30 thousand stores may turn out to be too low. 3万家店可能有点太少了。

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Class of 2016 Basketball Hall of Famers are one of the most decorated inductees when big names like Allen Iverson, Shaquille ONeal, Yao Ming and Sheryl Swoopes were enshrined here on Friday. 周五,2016年篮球界最重要的盛典奈史密斯篮球名

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New Words: trailer n. 预告片; Antarctica n. 南极洲 penguins n. 企鹅; intrepid adj. 无畏的; spectacle n. 景象;场面;奇观; Flying Penguins 会飞的企鹅 It's a BBC prank, this one was a trailer for a nature documentary exp

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【原文】 The History of BeerOne of the world's oldest stories, The Epic of Gilgamesh, is a lively tale of heroism and sacrifice from ancient Sumer. It also contains one of the earliest references to beer. In the story, a female friend of the hero

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Culture wars in Ukraine 乌克兰的文化战争 History lessons 历史的教训 The conflict in Ukraine spreads to its museums 发生在乌克兰的冲突波及至其博物馆 HE WHO controls the past controls the future. Orwell's dictum now faces a

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重点词汇 go against: 逆; 违背,作对; 对不利; 触犯; take off: 起飞; 脱掉; (使) 离开; 突然成功; 有些人被历史改变,有些人,却改变着历史。亨利.福特就是这样一位改变历史的人。 福特T型车被

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And from that moment, Jehovah was recognised by all the Jews as the Highest Master of their Fate, the only True God, who had taught them how to live holy lives when he bade them to follow the wise lessons of his Ten Commandments. 从这时起,耶和华

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Chapter 12 第十二章 The Aegean sea 爱琴海 The people of the Aegean Sea Carried the Civilisation of old Asia into the wilderness of Europe 爱琴海的人民将亚洲的古老文明带到了蛮荒的欧洲 When Heinrich Schliemann was a little

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A very careful study of these many relics has done away with some of the romantic features of the story. The makers of these early works of art and the builders of these strong fortresses were no sorcerers, but simple sailors and traders. They had li

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But here and there, on the tops of high rocks, they saw the castles of the Aegeans and those they did not attack for they feared the metal swords and the spears of the Aegean soldiers and knew that they could not hope to defeat them with their clumsy

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The singer who meh-mehed like a goat therefore was called a tragos-oidos or goat singer, and it is this strange name which developed into the modern word Tragedy, which means in the theatrical sense a piece with an unhappy ending, just as Comedy (whi

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Not only did these hardy people manage to exist through the long cold spells which killed many ferocious animals, but when the earth became warm and comfortable once more,prehistoric man had learned a number of things which gave him such great advant

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Joining me now from Paris, with the Macron campaign is NewsHour Weekend special correspondent Malcolm Brabant. Malcolm, how much of a victory was this for him as we heard from people who were at the polls here? Some of them said this was not a vote f

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June 4, 1989 In Beijing, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square to crush a pro-democracy movement. Hundreds, possibly thousands are killed in the crackdown, damaging Communist Chinas reputation in the west. June 4, 1942 A turning point during t

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History of Harvard-Yale Regatta 哈佛一耶鲁赛艇赛的历史 Boat clubs at Harvard and Yale had existed since the early 1840s, but races against outside competition was rare. That all changed when Yale issued a challenge to Harvard to test the s

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