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America will remain the best place on earth to do business, so long as Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress resist the temptation to interfere too much, and so long as organised labour does not overplay its hand.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
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It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts (宇航员) someday may survive so long in space that they would return to an Earth of the distant future.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
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"There's no way on earth that genes from an alga should work inside an animal cell," says sidney pierce from the University of South Florida.
2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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Actually, space technology helps people on Earth every day.
2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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As the water is pumped out, the vacant space left is compacted by the weight of the earth above.
2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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Spin-off technology is space technology that is now used on Earth.
2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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That's about the same distance as 337 round trips from Earth to Pluto.
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They want to know how space research helps people on Earth.
2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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One recent study warns us of the danger of the exhaustion of natural resources on Earth.
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One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.
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Their behaviors can be found in almost all teenagers on earth.
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It is estimated that Antarctica boasts of the richest reserves of fresh water on earth.
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When the molten rock of the earth’s core forced its way to the surface to form the throat of a volcano, as the centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinkingand cracking into long columns.
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Sweden has gone farther than any other nation on earth to integrate the sexes and to offer women the same opportunities and freedoms as men.
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The perpetual argument is that funds are tight, that we have more pressing problems here on Earth.
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In our times, human shrewdness has mastered the deep mysteries of the earth at a level far beyond the capacities of earlier peoples.
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The earth will experience extreme weathers.
出自-2010年12月听力原文
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"The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world," read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to t
2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d
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In the rusty red deserts of South Africa, steep-sided rocky hills called inselbergs rear up from the plains like the bones of the earth.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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Measurements of density and composition implied that Venus originally formed out of basically the same stuff as Earth.
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Some have 26 vanished from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have 27 undergone changes as they have come into contact with an 28 expanding machine civilization.
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The greatest concern the authors raise is space debris一pieces of "junk" that orbit the earth, with the potential to cause serious damage if they collide with operational units, including the ISS.
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The sun was considerably less bright back then, so Venus was arguably a cozier habitat for life than earth.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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They're primarily designed for Low Earth Orbit(LEO) an easily accessible region of space from around 200 to 800 miles above Earth, where human-tended missions like the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station(ISS) hang out.
2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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Thus, our picture of Venus at around the time life was getting started on Earth is one of warm oceans, probably rich with organic molecules, splashing around rocky shores and volcanic vents.
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Venus has long been held up as a cautionary tale for everything that could go wrong on a planet like Earth.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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within their compact bodies these minute satellites are able to house sensors and communications receivers/ transmitters that enable operators to study Earth from space, as well as space around Earth.
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N-PROPER
地球(指宇宙组成部分时用Earth,指人类居住的星球时用the Earth)
Earth or the Earth is the planet on which we live. People usually say Earth when they are referring to the planet as part of the universe, and the Earth when they are talking about the planet as the place where we live.
例句
The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to earth today. “
亚特兰蒂斯”号航天飞机今天安全返回地球。
...a fault in the Earth's crust.
地壳断层
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N-SING
陆地;地面
The earth is the land surface on which we live and move about.
例句
The earth shook and the walls of neighbouring houses fell around them.
地面摇晃,周围房屋的墙体在他们身边倒塌。
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N-UNCOUNT
泥土;土壤;土地
Earth is the substance on the land surface of the earth, for example clay or sand, in which plants grow.
例句
The road winds for miles through parched earth, scrub and cactus...
公路蜿蜒数英里,穿过炙烤的大地、灌木丛和仙人掌。
They will revert to tilling the earth in an old-fashioned way.
他们将回归到用老方法耕地。
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N-COUNT
(狐等的)洞穴
An earth is a hole in the ground in which an animal such as a fox lives.
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N-SING
(接)地线
The earth in an electric plug or piece of electrical equipment is the wire through which electricity can pass into the ground, which makes the equipment safe if something goes wrong with it.
例句
The earth wire was not connected.
地线没有接上。
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PHRASE
(用于以how, why, what 或 where 开始的问句,表示强调,通常表示问题没有答案或很难回答)究竟,到底
On earth is used for emphasis in questions that begin with words such as 'how', 'why', 'what', or 'where'. It is often used to suggest that there is no obvious or easy answer to the question being asked.
例句
How on earth did that happen?...
那件事到底怎么发生的?
What on earth had Luke done?...
卢克究竟做了什么?
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PHRASE
(用于否定名词短语后表强调)根本,完全
On earth is used for emphasis after some negative noun groups, for example 'no reason'.
例句
There was no reason on earth why she couldn't have moved in with us...
她没能搬过来和我们同住,这根本就说不通。
There is no feeling on earth like winning for the first time.
初尝胜利滋味的感觉真是无可比拟。
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PHRASE
(用于包含形容词最高级的名词短语后表示强调)世界上,人世间
On earth is used for emphasis after a noun group that contains a superlative adjective.
例句
He wanted to be the fastest man on earth.
他想成为世界上跑得最快的人。
...the site of the worst ecological disaster on earth.
世界上最严重的生态灾难发生地
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PHRASE
(激动之后)恢复正常生活,回到现实
If you come down to earth or back to earth, you have to face the reality of everyday life after a period of great excitement.
例句
When he came down to earth after his win he admitted: 'It was an amazing feeling'...
从胜利的喜悦中平复后,他承认:“当时感觉棒极了。”
I was shocked, brought down to earth by this revelation.
真相的披露让我深感震惊,我被带回了现实。
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PHRASE
(经过长时间的寻找后)终于找到
If you run someone or something to earth, you find them after searching for them for a long time.
例句
She ran him to earth in the pub at five to one.
1点差5分的时候,她终于在酒馆里找到了他。
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PHRASE
价格不菲/斥巨资
If you say that something cost the earth or that you paid the earth for it, you are emphasizing that it cost a very large amount of money.
例句
It must have cost the earth.
这肯定花了很多钱。