Designing a Quake-Resistant Building Starts at the Soil

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Builders in developing countries are often not required to build strong buildings. So, when a disaster strikes, the damage is often widespread. 发展中

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The Pentagon plans to shoot down a disabled spy satellite to prevent a potential deadly gas leak, officials said. Upon notification of the descending NRO satellite, the President and his national and homeland security advisors reviewed the options a

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-10-16

There is no sign of a young boy who was thought to have been stuck in a home-made balloon that floated thousands of meters above the US state of Colorado. It's believed the boy got into the contraption in his backyard and it floated away with the six

Emerging Technologies

Emerging Technologies 2005 MIT Technology Review , Technology Review, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International Of the numerous technologies now in development, MIT Technology Review ha

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By David McAlary Washington 06 March 2006 The newest American mission to Mars is hurtling toward the red planet, due Friday to examine it in the sharpest detail yet. It will be the largest spacecraft

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By David McAlary Washington 10 March 2006 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Another U.S. spacecraft has begun orbiting Mars to study the red planet in unprecedented detail. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter w

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These hardworking houseplants can sweeten every breath you take . Put Your Plants to Work In the early 1980s, when NASA researchers were looking for ways to purify the air inside the space pods of the future , they didn ' t just look to engineer a pr

2014年CRI 中国国防部敦促美停止侦察活动 北约称上千俄军人在乌克兰境内

China's Defense Ministry is pointing the finger at the United States as being responsible for a series of close encounters between Chinese and US jets along China's coastline. At the same time, the China's Defense Ministry is urging the United States

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Doom da da di da di Doom da da di da di Everybody's gonna love today,每个人都会喜欢今天， Gonna love today, gonna love today,今天要爱，要爱今天， Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today每个人都会喜欢的今天，热爱今

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According to the latest research, vehicles, coal-burning, airborne dust and industrial production account for 85 to 90-percent of the major airborne pollution sources in most Chinese cities. Vehicles are the biggest polluters in Beijing, Hangzhou, Gu

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China's Defense Ministry has asked the US to stop conducting reconnaissance activities close to China to prevent hazardous incidents. Spokesperson Yang Yujun was responding to US claims that two Chinese jet fighters last week unsafely intercepted one

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A California company has unveiled a tiny flying drone

A California company that makes unmanned drone aircraft for the U.S. military has unveiled a tiny flying drone that looks like a hummingbird(蜂鸟). The airborne spy is part of a new kind of military technology that also has civilian uses. Several y

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be allergic to 对过敏，厌恶 I am allergic to seafood. 我对海鲜过敏。 Mike was allergic to housework. 麦克很讨厌做家务。

学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2926 reconnaissance

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本期内容： Earthquakes wrought havoc in Ecuador, killing more than 200, and Japan, where at least 41 died and 11 were missing. Hundreds were injured in both countries. In Japan, 180,000 people are in temporary shelters and 300,000 homes are with