Many people remember the colors of the rainbow by the acronym ROY G. BIV. For red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Well, the color indigo just made news. Indigo gets its name from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and its relatives, whic

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Chinese medicine has been getting some props lately. A couple of recent studies have demonstrated the medical potential of traditional treatments. Part of the challenge of AIDS is that immune cells lose their ability to divide and thus their disease

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In a jungle there lived a pack of jackals. They would hunt together to eat from the left-overs of the lions meal. One of the jackals was getting a little old. All the younger jackals bullied him and did not allow him to share the food. I have to do s

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今天要讲的习惯用语都由这样一个关键词发展而来 : powder。 大家一定知道powder是粉, 可以是扑脸的香粉,也可能是治病的药粉或者爆炸的火药,种类繁多。今天要学的第一个习惯用语是:

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Suspicious Powder Discovered on Capitol Hill Deborah Tate Three U.S. Senate office buildings are closed, and congressional business has been disrupted a day after a suspicious powder, believed to be t

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今天要学的习惯用语是: keep one's powder dry。在keep one's powder dry这个习惯用语里,powder指枪炮用的火药。以前步兵和水兵把火药装在火药桶里保持干燥,随时取用。要是哪个粗心大意的士兵忘了

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