2011-07-29 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：The quiet life of the country has never appealed to me. City born and city bred. I have always regarded the country as something you look at through a train window, or something you occasion

2011-07-28 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：It has never been explained why university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more than else. Students specialize in a particular type of practical joke: the hoax. Inviting the fire brig

2011-07-28 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：The rough across the plain soon became so bad that we tried to get Bruce to drive back to the village we had come from. Even though the road was littered with boulders and pitted with holes,

2011-07-28 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadil

2011-07-28 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：We have learnt to expect that trains will be punctual. After years of conditioning, most of us have developed an unshakable faith in railway timetables. Ships may be delayed by storms; fligh

2011-07-27 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：Antique shops exert a peculiar fascination on a great many people. The more expensive kind of antique shop where rare objects are beautifully displayed in glass cases to keep them free from

2011-07-27 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：We are less credulous than we used to be. In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -- most of them

2011-07-27 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：The word justice is usually associated with courts of law. We might say that justice has been done when a man's innocence or guilt has been proved beyond doubt. Justice is part of the compl

2011-07-27 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容： We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of

2011-07-26 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up. The sense of humour is mysteriously bound up with national characteristics. A Frenchman, for instance, m

2011-07-26 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：The salvage operation had been a complete failure. The small ship, Elkor, which had been searching the Barents Sea for weeks, was on its way home. A radio message from the mainland had been

2011-07-26 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：For years, villagers believed that Endley Farm was haunted. The farm was owned by two brothers, Joe and Bob Cox. They employed a few farmhands, but no one was willing to work there long. Eve

2011-07-26 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：True eccentrics never deliberately set out to draw attention to themselves. They disregard social conventions without being conscious that they are doing anything extraordinary. This invaria

2011-07-25 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：Small boats loaded with wares sped to the great liner as she was entering the harbour. Before she had anchored, the men from the boats had climbed on board and the decks were It was difficul

2011-07-25 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容： It has been said that everyone lives by selling something. In the light of this statement, teachers live by selling knowledge, philosophers by selling wisdom and priests by selling spiritua

2011-07-25 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：One of the most famous sailing ships of the nineteenth century, the Cutty Sark, can still be seen at Greewich. She stands on dry land and is visited by thousands of people each year. She ser

2011-07-25 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：No one can avoid being influenced by advertisements. Much as we may pride ourselves on our good taste, we are no longer free to choose the things we want, for advertising exerts a subtle inf

2011-07-24 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years. The English language possesses a vivid saying

2011-07-24 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：People become quite illogical when they try to decide what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten. If you lived in the Mediterranean, for instance, you would consider octopus a great delicacy

2011-07-24 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：Some plays are so successful that they run for years on end. In many ways, this is unfortunate for the poor actors who are required to go on repeating the same lines night after night. One w

2011-07-24 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago. In those days, boxers fought with bare fists for prize money. Because of this, they were known as 'prizefighters'. Howeve

2011-07-23 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：In 1908 Lord Northcliffe offered a prize of $1,000 to the first man who would fly across the English Channel. Over a year passed before the first attempt was made. On July 19th, 1909, in the

2011-07-23 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容： Kidnappers are rarely interested in animals, but they recently took considerable interest in Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay's cat. Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay, a very wealthy old lady, has shared a flat

2011-07-23 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文文本：Verrazano, an Italian about whom little is known, sailed into New York Harbour in 1524 and named it Angouleme. He described it as 'a very agreeable situation located within two small hills

2011-07-23 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册视频讲解

课文内容：Modern sculpture rarely surprises us any more. The idea that modern art can only be seen in museums is mistaken. Even people who take no interest in art cannot have failed to notice examples