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rhyme [] n. 韵,韵脚,押韵 Tennyson's work was mostly in rhyme. 但尼生的诗大都是押韵的。

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The woman was forced to swallow her pride and admit that she was wrong. 那个女人被迫低头，承认她错了。 解析：swallow (one's) pride 字面是“把骄傲吞下去”，引申指“采取低姿态或忍气吞声”之意。

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Landon had made an unsuccessful attempt at the recitation, and the doctor, somewhat nettled, said:"Landon, you don't seem to be getting on very fast in this subject. You seem to lack ambition. Why, at your age Alexander the Great had conquered half the world." "Yes," said Landon,"he couldn't help it, for you will recall the fact, doctor, that Alexander the Great had Aristotle for a teacher." 兰登作了一次不成功的朗诵。老师有点不悦，对他说道：“兰登，你在这门课上好像进步不大，你好像缺乏志向。亚历山大大帝在你这个年龄可已经征服了半个世界。” “是啊，”兰登说，“他没法不那样。博士先生，您回想一下史实，亚历山大大帝有亚里士多德做他的老师。”

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In the leafy highlands of Papua New Guinea at a gathering of clans—some of them former headhunters—[photographer] Jodi Cobb was looking for beauty. "What interested me," she says of groups like the brightly painted Huli, "is that men are flamboyant in this culture. They take their cues from the birds. The males are the colorful ones." 在巴布亚新几内亚枝叶繁茂的高原地带，正在举行一个各部族的聚会——其中的一些人还曾经是猎取人头的蛮人——摄影师Jodi Cobb则在这里寻找美。“吸引我的，”她提及色彩斑斓的胡里族人时说，“是在他们的文化中，男人们都打扮的非常艳丽。他们是从鸟类那里获取的灵感，通常雄性的鸟都是比较五彩斑斓的。”

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<点击收听> 看企鹅何处去？(With places to go and penguins to see) On this lonely finger of land sticking out from the stubbled plains of Patagonia into the Atlantic Ocean, time is measured less by clocks than by the gentle quivering of cream-colored eggs. A scouring wind prevents trees from taking root, so the change of seasons is marked by more subtle things, like the size of flipper tracks on the beach. This time of year, the nearly half-million Magellanic penguins that arrive at this vast nesting colony usually spend the mid-afternoon hours resting in the cool of their burrows. Time is valuable because the birds run on a tight schedule. An internal calendar rules their lives, which can be as long as 20 years or more. Each September, the males arrive at Punto Tombo to prepare nests for the females, who join them several weeks later. The couples are generally monogamous. "Right now, a lot of the eggs are hatching or about to hatch, and the return of the females from the sea is critical," said Jo Loughrey, 24, a Scottish volunteer at the small scientific field station near the colony. "She needs to get back one or two days before the eggs hatch, because the chicks need to be fed quickly or they will starve." The field station, run by the University of Washington, has been tracking penguins since 1982, when activists and local officials foiled a plan by a Japanese company to harvest the penguins and turn them into gloves and oils. The field station uses satellite tracking to follow the penguins at sea and to determine whether global climate changes and shipping routes could disrupt their lives. Magellanic penguins一named after explorer Ferdinand Magellan一are burrowers. If Emperor penguins, found in icier places farther south, are associated with a dashing sort of tuxedoed grace, the Magellanic penguins are their rowdy cousins who often look as if they've emerged from a fight at a wedding, ties crooked and dress shirts stained. Which is not to say they lack charm. On one recent afternoon, one male waddled back to his nest with some grass in his beak. The field researchers said males often shower gifts on their mates, and the grass might be a welcome home present for a mate who had been away at sea.