英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
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The Bug Detectives Insects can accurately tell us when someone died. But their lifecycle is crucially affected by one factor above all: temperature. So sometimes, getting them to tell us their secrets is not so straightforward. Dr. Martin Hall is a Research Entomologist1 at the Natural History Museum in London. Part of his expertise is determining how crimescene temperature affects
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
Christmas Eve Christmas Eve celebrations often outshine those of Christmas itself. In Denmark, Christmas Eve is the biggest occasion of the year. The partying goes on all night, with traditional prune stuffed roast goose, red cabbage, fried pastries, and cinnamon laced rice pudding. The Christmas elves are appeased1 with offerings of rice pudding, and dishes of seeds are placed outdoors fo
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
Tippy I was late for the school bus and rushing to get ready. My dog, Tippy, ran past me. What’s your big hurry? I wondered, annoyed. It wasn’t like he was late for the school bus like I was. When he got to the front door, he lay down in front of it -- his way of asking to be petted. I ignored his shameless begging for affection, hurdled over him and sprinted1 for the waiting yellow bu
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Till There Was Blue You know, it’s funny the way things seem to happen. Five minutes of one day can change the rest of your life. I know it did mine. And that change taught me that letting loose and giving in to a spur-of-the-moment1 idea is what life is all about. I recently was given the opportunity to do research on fruit flies through an eight-week summer program for high school stud
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
Heart to Heart Li Feiyan: For most of the readers of English Salon, Heart to Heart International is still an unfamiliar name. Could you introduce the nature and guiding principle of your organization to us briefly? Gary Morsch: Heart to Heart International is a grass-roots1 volunteer? based humanitarian organization that works worldwide. The mission of Heart to Heart is to inspire
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
How to Overcome Your Shyness Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many of people. All kinds of people describe themselves as shy. Shy people are anxious and self-conscious; that is that they are excessively concerned with their own appearance and actions. Worrisome1 thoughts are constantly swirling in their minds. What kind of impression am I making? Do they like me? Do I s
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Sam’s Purpose For years now, I have held the hands of the dying. “How can you bear it?” people ask me. “Hospice1 nursing must be so difficult. How can you stand to be around so much suffering?” Those people don’t understand that if you have the courage to look beyond suffering, you encounter triumph. I know this for a fact. Sam taught me. An unlikely teacher, this infan
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Why Crocodiles Not Get Infections? Jill Fullerton Smith, a television producer, discovered why crocodiles can heal themselves in bacteria filled water. “In television we have to make films that entertain people. People are very interested in anything with big teeth. And so I volunteered that I would look for a film with big teeth.” Jill believes that the crocodile is on
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
The Bug Detectives Forensics1 has always used anything that science can give us to cope with various crimes. But forensics has always had its limits. In fact there are major factors in any murder that 21st century science still cannot crack2. Crucially, for example, even with all our technology, it is impossible for forensic science to estimate the time of death when a body is found more t
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The French Are Traditionalists The French are at heart traditionalists. Though they dearly love revolutions, pulling everything down and starting from scratch, they disapprove of shifts in behaviour. Everything must be done comme il faut (properly), an expression that applies equally to getting married and getting drunk, stuffing1 a duck and filling in a form, addressing an envelope and ad
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November 4: Mischief Night A time of misrule1, when every principle is turned on its head, is a tempting thing indeed. Some sociologists have theorized that such festivals of chaos are necessary for the running of a decent culture. From time immemorial2, British children have celebrated a Mischief Night. This is the time for plugging neighbors’ chimneys, whitewashing enemies’ w
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One Door at a Time When my husband, John, and I had our first child 20 years ago, we agreed I’d be a stay at home mom. That meant we’d have to make do on a single income. We scrimped1 and saved so we could keep with the mortgage2 and our student loans. We ate a lot of macaroni and cheese dinners. We even didn’t go to the movies anymore. I clipped coupons3 and tracked down sal
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
Missing the Dance “Would you like to be my date for the ROTC1 dance?” asked Rick. I couldn’t believe he was asking me. My two best friends had gotten dates weeks ago, so I had given up hope of anyone from ROTC asking me. Rick was the cutest guy in the club! He wanted to go with me? “Are you serious?” “It’s semiformal2, so you’ll need a dress, but my parents will pay for the
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
Search for Success Wang Daqing: The whole world has witnessed1 tremendous changes in China’s information industry in recent years, and what role do you think Baidu has been playing in the internet market ever since its appearance four years ago? Robin Lee: I think the information retrieval2, or search engine in particular, is one of the very basic functions in the internet age. S
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
Melody1 from the Other World In October on the east coast of Australia migrating humpback whales2 pass very close to the shore. With the help of Max Egan, we went to film them near Byron Bay. It was incredibly exciting to spot the little puffs3 of spray on the horizon -- the tell-tale4 blow of a whale. When migrating, the whales can be traveling at speeds of about 12 km/hour and can
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Lifestyle Causes Myopia1 Contrary to popular belief, people in East Asia are no more genetically susceptible2 to short-sightedness than any other population group, according to researchers who have analysed past studies of the problem. The epidemics3 of myopia in countries such as Singapore and Japan are due solely to changes in lifestyle, they say, and similar levels could soon be seen in
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner: Alan J.Heeger I was born on a bitter cold morning in Sioux City (Iowa) on January 22, 1936. My early years were spent in Akron (Iowa), a small midwestern town of 1000 people, approximately 35 miles from Sioux City. I went to elementary school in Akron. My father died when I was nine years old. After my father’s death, we moved to Omaha, so my
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
Distant Contemporary :Immanuel Kant A small man , a big mind: Immanuel Kant revolutionized philosophy, questioned established authorities and placed reason and freedom at the centre of his thinking .Kant died 200 years ago -- his ideas still point to the future . As long as he lived, Immanuel Kant sought no honours. Even in his later years, when he was already acknowledged as one of
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October 26--Quit Rent Ceremony Proof that the Middle Ages was a time of boisterous1 wit, quit rent ceremonies entail2 the payment of symbolic or token3 “rents” -- instead of real money -- for pieces of real estate4. Medieval landlords perfected the practice as a way of “giving” land to friends or to those who had done them favors. But by demanding annual compensation in the form of
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
A Happy Choice During the dust-blown thirties, everyone in our Oklahoma panhandle1 community fell on hard times, but Mom made sure none of us kids knew it. We dined on gravy2 and potatoes or corn bread and milk. Sometimes our menu included vegetables Mom raised in her garden--green beans, black-eyed peas, red beets and cucumber pickles. If storms didn’t wipe out the crops, we picked sand
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How Great Is Great Wall to a Briton “If you haven’t been to the Great Wall, you aren’t a real man,” Mao Zedong once said. Indeed, so many real men, and women, are visiting the wall that the most popular sites outside Beijing are besieged1 by hordes2 of tourists in baseball caps and overrun with souvenir sellers. At Badaling, the most? visited section, there are hundreds of noodle s
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
The Man Who Cherishes the Great Wall Zhao Wei: It has been 18 years since you traveled along the Great Wall on foot in 1987 and became attached to it after the travel. Why do you choose the Great Wall as your deepest love among those famous historic sites all over the world? William Lindesay: After my long journey in 1987, I’d traveled two and a half thousand kilometers between Jiayuguan and S
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Why Fruit and Vegetables Are the Tops for Good Health? They used to say an apple a day keeps the doctor away. And according to the Department of Health, years of research shows that eating fruit and vegetables reduces the risk of many life-threatening diseases and helps us keep fit. Coronary heart disease1 (CHD) and strokes are major causes of death in the UK, yet a diet high in fr
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Inventions for Exploring Space: Artificial Satellites SputnikⅠwas the first artificial satellite. It can be described as an aluminium1 sphere with a diameter2 of 58 centimetres and weighing 83.6 kilograms, equipped with instruments to measure the temperature and the density of the atmosphere. SputnikⅠwas launched into orbit around the Earth by the former Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
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Memory Fails You after Severe Stress People are woefully1 bad at recalling details of their own traumatic2 experiences. When military personnel were subjected3 to threatening behaviour during mock4 interrogations5, most failed to identify the questioner a day or so later, and many even got the gender6 wrong. The finding casts serious doubt on the reliability of victim testimonies7 in cases
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Cats and Man Cats struck a bargain with1 man about 5,000 years ago when he shifted from a nomadic2 to an agrarian3 society. As man began to farm, he stored grain. The grain attracted rodents4, which in turn attracted cats. Wanting the cats to stick around, man left them pots of milk and other dainties5, and invited them into his home to share his hearth6. A variety of studies have
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Monica Conquering Music Morld Monica began her accomplished musical career when she burst onto the scene with her multi-platinum single For You I Will from the blockbuster1 movie Space Jam. On a roll, she continued her musical success with her follow-up album The Boy Is Mine which went double platinum in 1999. This album went on to produce a Grammy Award winning duet2 entitled The
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September 18—Dr. Johnson’s Birthday The son of a Lichfield bookseller, Samuel Johnson1 lived to become one of the English language’s most profound influences. His 1755 dictionary was the most thorough lexicon2 of its time, remarkable for its previously unheard-of use of famous literary quotes to illustrate words’ meanings. But Johnson, apart from “Dictionary Johnson,” wore othe
英语沙龙2004全年合辑下
“We’re All Here to Learn” The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.—Eleanor Roosevelt “Sixteen,” I said. I have forgotten the math question my second? grade teacher, Joyce Cooper, asked that day, but I will never forget my answer. As soon as the number left my mouth, the whole class at Smallwood Elementary School in Norfolk, Virginia, s
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More Than a Scholarship You may have heard of Osceola McCarty. She’s the 88-yea-old woman in Mississippi who had worked for over 75 years as a washer woman. One day after she retired, she went to the bank and discovered, to her great surprise, that her meager1 monthly savings had grown to over ＄150,000. Then to everyone’ s great surprise, she turned around and donated ＄150,000 -- a
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