纽约时报十大好书
小说：
1A Children’s Bible，By Ldia Millet
2 Deacon King Kong，By James McBride
3 Hamnet，By Maggie O’Farrell
4 Homeland Elegies By Ayad Akhtar
5 The Vanishing Half，By Brit Bennett
非小说
1 Hidden Valley Road，By Robert Kolker
2 奥巴马
3 Shakespeare in a Divided America，By James Shapiro
4 Uncanny Valley，By Anna Wiener
5 War，By Margaret MacMillan
小说：
1A Children’s Bible，By Ldia Millet
2 Deacon King Kong，By James McBride
3 Hamnet，By Maggie O’Farrell
4 Homeland Elegies By Ayad Akhtar
5 The Vanishing Half，By Brit Bennett
非小说
1 Hidden Valley Road，By Robert Kolker
2 奥巴马
3 Shakespeare in a Divided America，By James Shapiro
4 Uncanny Valley，By Anna Wiener
5 War，By Margaret MacMillan
Spare that spider
不要伤害蜘蛛
Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the harm to us or our belongings.
Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them. One can tell the difference almost at a glance, for a spider always has eight legs and insect never more than six. How many spiders are engaged in this work no our behalf? One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in grass field in the south of England, and he estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre; that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch.
Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country.
你可能会觉得奇怪， 蜘蛛怎么会是我们的朋友呢？因为它们能消灭那么多的昆虫，其中包括一些人类的大敌，要不是人类受一些食虫动物的保护，昆虫就会使我们无法在地球上生活下去，昆虫会吞食我们的全部庄稼，杀死我们的成群的牛羊。我们要十分感谢那些吃昆虫的鸟和兽，然而把它们所杀死的昆虫全部加在一起也只相当于蜘蛛所消灭的一小部分。此外，蜘蛛不同于其他食虫动物，它们丝毫不危害我们和我们的财物。
许多人认为蜘蛛是昆虫，但它们不是昆虫，甚至与昆虫毫无关系。人们几乎一眼就能看出二者的差异，因为蜘蛛都是8条腿，而昆虫的腿从不超过6条。
有多少蜘蛛在为我们效力呢？一位研究蜘蛛的权威对英国南部一块草坪上的蜘蛛作了一次调查。他估计每英亩草坪里有225万多只蜘蛛。这就是说，在一个足球场上约有600万只不同种类的蜘蛛。蜘蛛至少有半年在忙于吃昆虫。它们一年中消灭了多少昆虫，我们简直无法猜测，它们是吃不饱的动物，不满意一日三餐。据估计，在英国蜘蛛一年里所消灭昆虫的重量超过这个国家人口的总重量。
#扬州·黑马培训# #趣味英语#
不要伤害蜘蛛
Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the harm to us or our belongings.
Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them. One can tell the difference almost at a glance, for a spider always has eight legs and insect never more than six. How many spiders are engaged in this work no our behalf? One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in grass field in the south of England, and he estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre; that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch.
Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country.
你可能会觉得奇怪， 蜘蛛怎么会是我们的朋友呢？因为它们能消灭那么多的昆虫，其中包括一些人类的大敌，要不是人类受一些食虫动物的保护，昆虫就会使我们无法在地球上生活下去，昆虫会吞食我们的全部庄稼，杀死我们的成群的牛羊。我们要十分感谢那些吃昆虫的鸟和兽，然而把它们所杀死的昆虫全部加在一起也只相当于蜘蛛所消灭的一小部分。此外，蜘蛛不同于其他食虫动物，它们丝毫不危害我们和我们的财物。
许多人认为蜘蛛是昆虫，但它们不是昆虫，甚至与昆虫毫无关系。人们几乎一眼就能看出二者的差异，因为蜘蛛都是8条腿，而昆虫的腿从不超过6条。
有多少蜘蛛在为我们效力呢？一位研究蜘蛛的权威对英国南部一块草坪上的蜘蛛作了一次调查。他估计每英亩草坪里有225万多只蜘蛛。这就是说，在一个足球场上约有600万只不同种类的蜘蛛。蜘蛛至少有半年在忙于吃昆虫。它们一年中消灭了多少昆虫，我们简直无法猜测，它们是吃不饱的动物，不满意一日三餐。据估计，在英国蜘蛛一年里所消灭昆虫的重量超过这个国家人口的总重量。
#扬州·黑马培训# #趣味英语#
【开言小挑战】
现在的工作和生活中往往都很注重时间观念，对公司来说，洞悉市场发展规律，抓住发展机遇；对我们自己来说，提高自己的工作效率，这都是非常重要且必须的工作品质
那班班今天的问题就来了，关于不同时间的英文表达你说的清楚嘛？今天和班班一起来看看吧
时间刚好是一刻或者三刻，可以用 a quarter表达
A quarter = 15 minutes：15分钟
A quarter past ...: 几点一刻
A quarter to/till ...: 离几点还有一刻
或者直接读出数字，如
Two fifteen: 2:15
Two forty five：2:45
整点的表达：
Two o'clock：2:00
It's six on the dot：现在是六点整
半个小时的表达：
Half past eight = 8:30
Eight thirty = 8:30
Just past eight thirty：刚过八点半，在半小时附近的时间点，可以说一个粗略的时间点
今天班班说完后大家脑袋有没有更清楚一些了呀？下次再说时间的时候可不要说错了哟~不然就闹笑话啦，而且也会耽误工作哦
对应APP课程：把晚上9点说成12点，好多老外听不懂！
现在的工作和生活中往往都很注重时间观念，对公司来说，洞悉市场发展规律，抓住发展机遇；对我们自己来说，提高自己的工作效率，这都是非常重要且必须的工作品质
那班班今天的问题就来了，关于不同时间的英文表达你说的清楚嘛？今天和班班一起来看看吧
时间刚好是一刻或者三刻，可以用 a quarter表达
A quarter = 15 minutes：15分钟
A quarter past ...: 几点一刻
A quarter to/till ...: 离几点还有一刻
或者直接读出数字，如
Two fifteen: 2:15
Two forty five：2:45
整点的表达：
Two o'clock：2:00
It's six on the dot：现在是六点整
半个小时的表达：
Half past eight = 8:30
Eight thirty = 8:30
Just past eight thirty：刚过八点半，在半小时附近的时间点，可以说一个粗略的时间点
今天班班说完后大家脑袋有没有更清楚一些了呀？下次再说时间的时候可不要说错了哟~不然就闹笑话啦，而且也会耽误工作哦
对应APP课程：把晚上9点说成12点，好多老外听不懂！
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