王强英语美文 26-On Motes and Beams

On Motes and Beams It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we can

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By Gary Garriott Broadcast: September 8, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. Bridges are an important part of transportation systems. They make it possible to t

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Hana can hear the voices in the English patients room and stands in the hall trying to catch what they are saying.( How is it? Wonderful! Now its my turn. Ahh! Splendid, splendid. This is the greatest of inventions. A remarkable find, young man. )Whe

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I volunteered this year to build my mother an arbor in her back garden. She has a small patio at the back of her house with three borders(1) for planting. Because it gets so hot from late spring to the middle of autumn, she decided that she'd like a

Researchers: Recycled Concrete's Time Has Come

Researchers: Recycled Concrete's Time Has Come SOUTH BEND, INDIANA Recycling in the construction industry has become big business. It's easy to find new life for everything from old windows to wood beams. But until now, concrete the most widely used

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Concrete is one of the most widely used materials on the planet. And this consumption comes with a heavy ecological price. Rouzbeh Shahsavari, a materials scientist at Rice University. Around 5 to 10 percent of total CO2 emissions comes from concrete

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Transcript This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber.This will just take a minute. Physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have been able to send information ahead of particle beams racing at nearly the speed of li

精美英文欣赏:On Motes and Beams微尘与栋梁

人与人之间没什么大的区别。他们皆是伟大与渺小、善良与邪恶、高贵与低贱的混合体。 On Motes and Beams It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others. I suppose the r

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Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is cement versus concrete. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes: Accuracy is important. You might think concrete and cement are interchangeable, but you'll quickly find that you're mistaken when some guy at Home Depot rolls h

On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁

On Motes and BeamsIt is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cann

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Volunteers Help Revive LA's Concrete River Thousands of volunteers turned out on a recent weekend to remove the trash that has been deposited by winter rain storms. The Los Angeles River was lined with concrete in the late 1930s and 1940s, after year

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A: Hello! How do I restock my minibar? B: You've drunk everything, sir? A: I finished it all. B: Do you want the whole minibar, or just certain items? A: Send me up three bottles each of Perrier and Jim Beam. B: That's three Jim Beams and three Perri

学个词Learn a Word 第778期 Concrete

今天我们要学的词是concrete。 Concrete具体的，实质性的。美中战略与经济对话星期二结束。美联社报道说，The United States and China ended two days of high-level talks with few concrete results, 美中结束了为期两

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英文短篇故事（纽约）178 Booze and Concrete Don't Mix

The bar owner was upset. His best customer was in the hospital. He had a head injury. What happened? the owners wife asked. He said, He drank too much. When he went outside, he fell down. His head hit the sidewalk. Now he's in the hospital. This isn'

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James Vincent McMorrow，来自爱尔兰的独立民谣歌手,2010年6月发行首专Early In The Morning。他的声音清润柔和，像裹着一层清寒的水雾，纤细的颤音，放佛密林深处传来的歌声。 Down The Burning Rope James

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每一个孩子都是可爱的小天使，但不是每一个天使都能够幸福地飞翔。寂静的墓地里，小小的石碑上，冰冷的石头塑成一副没有表情的石像。那是被剥夺生命权利的小小精灵，永远地长眠于地

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Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you, 占有了你我便富比王侯，是否我的心灵 Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery? 便因此染上了帝王自我阿谀的瘟病？ Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true, 不，或许

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