大千世界:新西兰无翼大鸟

Most people searching for buried treasure would be looking for silver and gold, ancient coins or rare artwork. But scientists studying the extinct giant moa (已灭绝的一种新西兰无翼大鸟) bird and its environment are looking for a differen

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蒸汽机的发明带来了工业革命，瓦特为此做出了特别大的贡献，今天我们就一起去看看他的工作室是什么样子的？ Alice: Hello, I'm Alice. Stephen: And I'm Stephen. Alice: And this is 6 Minute English! This week w

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10-6 罗马

Rome In Rome, Nero fiddled 1 , Mark Antony praised Caesar, and Charlemagne 2 was crowned. Today, you can walk in their footsteps past the masterpieces of Michelangelo, sip your cafè in the shadow of

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Treasure! by Alison Driver When I was a young girl living in Ireland, I was always pleased when it rained, because that meant I could go treasure hunting. Whats the connection between a wet day and a search for buried treasure? Well, its quite simple

Watt's workshop

NB: This is not a word for word transcript Alice: Hello, I'm Alice. Stephen: And I'm Stephen. Alice: And this is 6 Minute English! This week were talking about an inventors workshop which has been reassembled after almost 200 years. Stephen: Reassemb

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When Steve Jobs stepped down as Apples chief executive last Wednesday the world knew that it was the end of an era. 上周三，乔布斯辞去苹果公司首席执行官一职，全世界都意识到一个时代终结了。 Since then, discussion of

New Discoveries Suggest Earlier Settlement of Americans

The first human inhabitants（居民 ） of North America settled at least 2,500 years earlier than the people previously identified as the first Americans. So say archaeologists, who have unearthed a trove of stone artifacts belonging to the early A

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Scientists say they've pinpointed the time in our lives when we start losing friends, rather than making new ones, by looking at the phone data of some 3.2 million Europeans. It looks like 25 is the watershed age for making new relationships. 科学家

Obama: Raid Was 'Longest 40 Minutes'

U.S. President Barack Obama says he ordered the raid(袭击) against al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden after deciding that the risks were outweighed by the possibility of finally getting our man.Mr. Obama said during a broadcast interview on CBS's 60 M

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12306官网用户信息遭泄露

Over 130,000 personal ID numbers, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of buyers of Chinese train tickets have been leaked online, spurring a public outcry and fears of identity theft and fraud. A security monitoring platform revealed the leak on Thur

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From the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's 2011 wedding to the 2012 Diamond Jubilee, no royal event would be complete without them. 从2011年威廉和凯特（剑桥公爵和公爵夫人）的婚礼到2012年的钻石庆，没有粉丝们的王室大事

巴黎恐袭，朋友安否？脸书告诉你

Facebook managed to put its vast treasure trove of user data to good use after Fridays tragic terror attacks in Paris: the social network customized its safety check feature to let users know whether their friends and loved ones in Paris are safe. 上周

The Enchanted Snake

The Little Pear GirlOnce upon a time, a peasant worked hard to make a living from his land. Every year his pear tree produced four basketfuls of fruit which had to be given to the king, a greedy ruler who grew rich at the expense of the poor. One yea

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2017-02-20

This is AP news minute. 1. A draft memo obtained by the Associate Press shows a Trump administration proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 national guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants. Under the plan, state governors would decide wheth

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Alibabas financial affiliate company launched its internet bank yesterday, with executives pledging to use the Chinese ecommerce groups treasure trove of customer data to target lending to small businesses. 中国电商集团阿里巴巴(Alibaba)的金

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2018年CRI Metropolitan Museum starts charging non-New Yorkers

The Metropolitan Museum - a fixture for any tourist to New York and the largest museum in the world - hosts a whopping 7 million visitors each year. It costs 300 million dollars annually to operate the Met, but this art and cultural institution was u