Transition to Sound in Film
In 1929, the United States motion picture industry released more than 300 sound films — a rough figure, since a number were silent films with music tracks, or films prepared in dual versions, to take...
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TPO46 Lecture4 Materials Science
Bottom line: if you are a copper miner, you won’t lose any sleep should the penny get…if you’ll excuse the expression, pinched out of existence. The bottom line in a decision or situation is the most...
View ArticleTPO21 The Origins of Agriculture
The fact that some societies domesticated animals and plants, discovered the use of metal tools, became literate, and developed a state should not make us forget that others developed pastoralism or...
View ArticleThe Icebox句子分析
The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling. 主干：The notion was mistaken....
View Articlethe Pomo句子分析
ceremonial object 仪式所用的物品 They made baskets three feet in diameter and others no bigger than a thimble. others = other baskets 定语从句省略that are 他们制作了直径达三英尺的篮子和针一般小巧的篮子。 foot, feet英尺 inch英寸 Others...
View ArticleArt and Materials
Perhaps the most obvious way artistic creation reflects how people live is by mirroring the environment — the materials and technologies available to a culture. 定语从句省略that are...
View Articletake no for an answer
口语中、美剧常用的表达，非学术类 If you say that someone will not take no for an answer, you mean that they go on trying to make you agree to something even after you have refused. 不达目的不罢休，不接受“不”作为答案 托福阅读： TPO 12...
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The frequency with which certain simple motifs appear in these oldest sites has led rock-art researchers to adopt a descriptive term—the Panaramitee style—a label which takes its name from the...
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While accepting that this sequence fits the archaeological profile of those sites, which were occupied continuously over many thousands of years, a number of writers have warned that the underlying...
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TPO10 Chinese Pottery答疑
Ceramic products also include lead-glazed tomb models of the Han dynasty, three-color lead-glazed vessels and figures of the Tang dynasty, and Ming three-color temple ornaments, in which the motifs...
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