But there is a legal obstacle that may keep the U.S. astronauts off the Space Station.
Many people couldn't find jobs on the outside, and they went into business for themselves, primarily to serve their own neighborhood.
Borrowed words are also known as loan-words. They refer to linguistic forms taken over by one language or dialect from another.
外来词也被称为借词。它们是指一种语言或方言从另一种语言或方言中借用的语言形式。
Those immigrants had been uneducated farm laborers in the vicinity of Canton in Southeast China before they came to America.
He says Muslim populations must not only strive for peace, but also for economic vitality.
Today we'll be continuing our discussion of the Canadian government, with the focus on its structure.
The Canadian parliament is divided into a lower house, the House of Commons, and an upper house called the Senate.
加拿大议会分为下议院（众议院）和上议院（参议院）。
A room in halls would cost you about 80 pounds per week outside of London.
They are not rare, but occur daily, emitting their light in high energy gamma rays.它们并不罕见，而是每天都有发生，并且会释放出高能伽马射线。
It rains often in the UK, and even in the summer it can still be quite cold.
For many years it was common in the United States to associate Chinese Americans with restaurants and laundries.
At first glance, the similarity between British and Canadian political conditions are great.
Finally, in 1882, the Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which stopped the immigration of Chinese laborers.
Anti-Chinese riots broke out in many cities. Some even developed into arson and bloodshed.
Astronomers have detected the most distant explosion ever witnessed in the heavens.天文学家探测到了天空中有史以来最为遥远的一次爆炸。
As in the case of their predecessors, these Chinese were almost all males and they encountered a great deal of prejudice.
He told business leaders gathered in Hong Kong Monday that the Islamic world must do all it can to end poverty among all Muslims.
他告诉周一云集在香港的商界领袖，伊斯兰世界必须竭尽全力消除所有穆斯林的贫困。
However, during World War Two, when China was an ally of the United States, the Exclusion laws were ended.
It is that Europe must adapt itself to changing times in order to compete economically, not just with the United States but also with such rising giants as China and India.
欧洲必须适应不断变化的时代以便在经济上不仅与美国还与诸如中印等崛起的大国竞争。
The Renaissance opened up a new source for the English vocabulary to enrich itself.
When heads of state visit Canada, they will first be greeted by the Governor General, before being welcomed by the Prime Minister.
当国家元首访问加拿大时，先是总督接见，然后才是总理。
In astronomy, distance means time. The further something is away, the longer its light has been travelling to get to us.
The active vocabulary refers to lexical items which a person uses. The passive vocabulary refers to the words which he understands.
主动词汇指的是一个人所使用的词项。被动词汇指的是他所理解的词语。
These blasts are the most powerful in the universe, sending out 100 million times the energy the Sun does in one year.
Before you write something, you need to have a clear idea of the topic, the audience, and the purpose of your writing.
The English vocabulary has replenished itself by continually taking over words from other languages over the centuries.
And in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Renaissance swept Europe. It was a revival of art and literature based on ancient Greek learning.
Mr. Blair said those criticisms are unfair and his aim is not to kill Europe's highly regulated social model but to change it.
Most of today's Chinese Americans are the descendants of some of the early miners and railroad workers.
From the sixteenth century forward, there was a great increase in the number of languages, and English borrowed many words from these languages.
The primary focus will be on the living conditions of peasants during the 1930s.
As shown in the example in our book, the same topic, when written to different audiences, can have very different content, structure, style, etc.
如我们书中例子所示，相同的主题，如果写给不同的读者看，那么内容、结构、风格等可能有很大的不同。
And the cheapest places to eat out are often local pubs, where they serve excellent home-cooked food, as well as serving as the centre of social life in most towns and cities in the UK.
There you will find wonderful countryside with the most spectacular views and many traditional towns and villages.
在那里，你会发现景色壮观的美丽乡村以及许多传统的城镇和村庄。
For persuasive or argumentative writings, you can classify audiences into three groups: those who agree, those who are neutral or undecided, and those who disagree.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
不要掩盖才华，才华本该施展。日晷若置于阴影之中，便百无一用。