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The difference between a brain and a computer can be expressed in a single word:complexity. 要形容人脑与电脑的区别只需一个词，即：复杂。 Even the most complicated computer man has yet built can't compare in intricacy with the brain. Comput...

The first fifty years of the next millennium will be critical for the world's population. By 2050 population growth should have leveled off, but by then we'll have 10 billion people--two-thirds as many again as we have today. The rate of p...

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth's vegetation and its animal life have been molded by the environm...

Hibernation is more than sleep. It is a very deep sleep.The animal's temperature drops to just over zero centigrade,and its heart beats very slowly. People who find hibernating animals asleep often think that they are dead: the body feels...

Nobody else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter, could put on a show like Steve Jobs. His product launches, at which he would stand alone on a black stage and conjure up a magical or incredible new electronic ga...

A snake, having made his hole close to the door of a cottage, inflicted a sever bite on the cottager's little son. So the child died. 有条蛇在一家农舍的门边打了个洞，并把主人的小孩咬了一口，孩子就一命呜呼。 This caused much sorrow to his p...

How to Stay Young 如何保持年轻 The older I grow, the more I appreciate children. Now, at my 80th birthday, I salute them again. Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are freshest from the hand of God. Whi...

Martin Luther King, Jr. 马丁o路德金 I am happy to join with you. today in what will go down in history ,as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.. 今天，我高兴地同大家一起，参加这次将成为我国历史上为了争取自由...

The following words were written on the tomb of an Anglican Bishop in the Crypts of Westminister Abbey: When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered th...

If you put a buzzard in a pen six to eight feet square and entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of...

One day, I went with the group to a nearby river. We wanted to check if it was clean. We did many scientific tests to see if the river was healthy. Surprisingly, it was! We still, though, took any rubbish we could find out of the river.We...

The word discovery literally means, uncovering something that's hidden from view. But what really happens is a change in the viewer. The familiar offers comfort few can resist, and fewer still want to disturb. But as relatively recent inve...

Now we discuss how to smile facing the life, I always stick to their principles, the road of life is long, always wrong steps, wrong, I smile to face, the next to come on the line. 现在我们探讨下如何以微笑面对生活，我始终坚持自己的原则，人...

In our daily lives, we have many choices to make, such as what to eat for supper,what clothes to wear, or what to do on weekends. At certain times in our lives, we need to make even more critical choices, such as which school to attend, wh...

After a year, just for one day.This day is to have the spring festival.There are two days to have the Spring Festival, people began to busy. 忙活了一整年，就为了这一天。这一天就是过年。还有两天就要过年了，大人们开始忙碌了。 Firecrackers, p...