2011-07-31 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：My cousin, Harry, keeps a large curiously-shaped bottle on permanent display in his study. Despite the fact that the bottle is tinted a delicate shade of green, an observant visitor would so

2011-07-31 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：Predicting the future is notoriously difficult. Who could have imagined, in the mid 1970s, for example, that by the end of the 20th century, computers would be as common in people's homes a

2011-07-31 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：It is a good thing my aunt Harriet died years ago. If she were alive today she would not be able to air her views on her favourite topic of conversation: domestic servants. Aunt Harriet live

2011-07-31 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：The New Year is a time for resolutions. Mentally, at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of 'dos' and 'don'ts'. The same old favorites recur year in year out with monotonou

2011-07-30 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：So great is our passion for doing things for ourselves, that we are becoming increasingly less dependent on specialized labour. No one can plead ignorance of a subject any longer, for these

2011-07-30 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, over industrialized planet. When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish: dump it, burn it, turn it

2011-07-30 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：In this much-travelled world, there are still thousands of places which are inaccessible to tourists. We always assume that villagers in remote places are friendly and hospitable. But people

2011-07-30 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：In democratic countries any efforts to restrict the freedom of the press are rightly condemned. However, this freedom can easily be abused. Stories about people often attract far more public

2011-07-29 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：People travelling long distances frequently have to decide whether they would prefer to go by land, sea, or air. Hardly anyone can positively enjoy sitting in a train for more than a few hou

2011-07-29 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：Insurance companies are normally willing to insure anything. Insuring public or private property is a standard practice in most countries in the world. If, however, you were holding an open

2011-07-29 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：Cave exploration, or pot-holing, as it has come to be known, is a relatively new sport. Perhaps it is the desire for solitude or the chance of making an unexpected discovery that lures peopl

2011-07-29 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容： 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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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 所屬欄目:新概念英語第三冊視頻講解

課文內容：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