例:She is taller than any other girl in her7.陆地:大地(n.)class.=She is the tallest girl in her8.小说(n.)class.9.科技:工艺(n.)她比班上其他女孩都高。10.法语(n.)4.This elephant weighs many times more11.摇滚乐(n.)than this panda.12.永远(ad.)【点拨】本句意为“这头大象比这...
Did you know that London once had the tallest building in the world? The spire of Old St Paul's was the Burj Khalifa of its day, until the completion of slightly loftier Lincoln Cathedral in the early 1300s. No one is sure of the precise height, but figures of 150m are often quoted ...
and they’ve been friends since high school. They introduced their songs with details (which I love), sincerely thanked us for being there, and even remembered the woman dressed up like a zebra at their first-ever show in Maine a couple of Octobers back. She was...
—What's the longest lightning bolt ever recorded? —Is Mount Everest really the tallest mountain on Earth? Gratton noted that windshear can impact planes in different, but no less serious, ways. "An encounter with windshear, if close to the ground, can cause the airplane to descend out of...
The people of the Dinaric Alps are on record as being the tallest in the world, with an average adolescent height of 185.6 cm (6 ft 1.1 in). The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina have the highest recorded average of any single country, with 183.9 cm average for men and 172.72 cm for ...
Curiosity, which plays leads in so many life dramas, led Louie to the rotunda of the tallest building. It was built on the hollow centre plan, with a sheer drop from the twenty-somethingth to the main floor. Louie stationed himself in the centre of the mosaic floor, took off his hat,...
Mountaineering legend Edmund Hillary and his sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first people to summit Mt. Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, in 1953. Photo: Britannica Today, there are two main styles of mountaineering: alpine style and expedition style. Alpine mountaineers travel light and move...
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It is the tallest water feature in the Grand Canyon, rising 190 feet above the surface. Named after an explorer in the 1800s, Mooney Falls is accessible only by crawling(爬) through 2 underground passages and then climbing down sheer cliff(峭壁)face with just a couple of chains to hold ...
During that last mini-Ice Age, a glacier estimated to be 3,000 feet thick covered much of North America and the area where Chicago is now. That would be a covering of ice and snow more than twice the height of the tallest skyscrapers in Chicago. Image the effect if that happened today...