The Old Man and the Sea 老人与海 The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current. Then the sun was brighter and the glare came on the water a

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Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林 Franklin's parents were both pious Puritans. 富兰克林的双亲皆为虔诚的清教徒, The family attended the old South Church, the most liberal Puritan congregation in Boston, where Benjamin Franklin w

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Napoleon Bonaparte 拿破仑波拿马 About a hundred years ago there lived a great general whose name was Napoleon Bonaparte. 大约在一百年前,有一个伟大的将军,名叫拿破仑波拿马。 He was the leader of the French army; and Fr

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Barack Obama 巴拉克奥巴马 With his Kenyan father and white American mother, his upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta,and his Ivy League education, 奥巴马的父亲来自肯尼亚,母亲为美国白人,他在檀香山和稚加达两地长大,

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Thomas Jefferson 托马斯杰斐逊 While the Presidential election was taking place in the House of Representatives, 当总统选举正在众议院进行的时候, amid scenes of great excitement, strife and intrigue, which was to decide whether J

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A Boy, A Dog, A Frog and A Friend by Mercer and Marianna Mayer 1 One day a boy went fishing with his dog and his frog.He sat by the side of a pond and patiently waited for a fish to bite. 2 All of a sudden he felt a bite! 3 It had to be a big fish be

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Cellular phones, Voice Over IP phones, Internet phones. Wow, so many choices that now provide you with opportunities to learn languages while you're on the go (Mobile Learning). In the past, students were either limited to learning languages in a cla

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Ants have an amazing ability to communicate with each other and work together to accomplish complex tasks. Their specialized behavior due to chemical communication is so well developed, in fact, that humans can learn a lot from them about how best to

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The mathematical marriage predictor. You might not think that mathematicians have anything particularly relevant to say about your love life. But you'd be wrong--if we're talking about James Murray, a mathematician at the University of Washington in

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In this Moment of Science Don and Yael discuss a scientific way to choose the perfect date movie. Don: Okay, Yael, if you were me, would you take your date to a violent action flick or a romantic movie? Yael: A romance, of course. D: Well, there migh

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Have you ever had a problem getting a match to light? If so, you might be using the wrong type of match. There are actually two different types of matches: safety matches and strike-anywhere matches. 以前你点燃火柴时有没有点不着的时候呢

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18 Dale Carnegie 戴尔卡耐基 The name of Dale Carnegie is synonymous with success and influence. 戴尔卡耐基的名字几乎和成功、影响是同义词, Perhaps the most well-known author in the field of communication and public speaking,

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5 Aristotle 亚里士多德 Aristotle was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC. 亚里士多德于公元前384年出生于色雷斯的斯塔基拉, His father was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. Aristotle was trained and educa

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8 David Hume 大卫休谟 Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at the unusually early age of twelve at a time when fourteen was normal. 休谟在年仅12岁时就进入爱丁堡大学就读,当时正常的入学年龄是14岁。 At first he co

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George Walker Bush 乔治布什 In his fathers presidential race in 1988, Bush Jr. became his fathers aid. 1988年在他父亲竞选总统时,小布什成为父亲的助手。 This was the first time the two had worked together closely as adults, a

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Can Oxygen Be Toxic? 氧气有毒吗? In order for us to live we must have oxygen, so how can it be bad for us? Today we explain how oxygen can be toxic. 氧气是我们生存所必需的,所以它怎么会对我们有害呢?今天我们来解释

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The Great Tomato Debate 有名的西红柿辩论 In 1893, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case that hinged on whether the tomato was a fruit or a vegetable. 1893年,美国最高法院有一场关于西红柿到底是水果还是蔬菜的案子。 De

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Imagine that youre an insect, and that youve fallen ill because some bacteria or parasites have invaded your body. If you want to make it to a ripe old bug age, your body will need to fight off these invaders. 想象一下,假如你是一只小昆虫

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Its time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: 又到了科学一刻听众的来信时间。一位听众写道: Dear A Moment of Science, 亲爱的《科学一刻》, Im not a math person. In fact, anytime I have to d

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Back when most folks relied on an icebox to cool food, a block of ice was a precious commodity. If you put hot food in the icebox, the ice might melt. 以前,当大多数人们需要倚赖冰盒来冷却食物的时候,一块冰块就是一件珍贵

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