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Farm Animals May Soon Get New Qualities With Gene-Editing This may seem impossible, but an American company is seeking to change farm animals by cutting or adding to their genes. By using a process called gene-editing, the company, Recombinetics, say

发表于:2018-12-10 / 阅读(149) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We live in times of instant mass outrage. Someone does something, says something or is seen doing something, and they can be demonized with a click. The next time you might be tempted, think of this. In the fourth inning of Sunday'

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Sometime in the 1990s Jagdish Bhagwati, one of India's most distinguished economists, encountered Swaminathan Gurumurthy, 在20世纪90年代某时,印度最杰出的经济学家贾格迪什巴格沃蒂遭遇了斯瓦米那坦古穆绥 a financial

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Lesson 32 Music Can Motivate 音乐的激励作用 Words: catastrophe n. 异常的灾祸 catching adj. 传染性的;有感染力的 categorical adj. 无条件的,绝对的;明确的,直截了当的 categorize vt. 分类;标示。。。的特点;为。。。取名描述 category n. 种类,类目;范

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But when we had ascended to an elevation of about 250 feet, we were stopped by insurmountable obstacles. The converging inside walls changed into overhangs, and our climb into a circular stroll. 不过,到了二百英尺高左右,我们不能再上

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On Rack 10 rows of next generation's chemical workers were being trained in the toleration of lead, caustic soda, tar, chlorine. 第十道架上一排排下一代的化学工人正在承受着铅毒、苛性苏打、沥青和氯气伤害的锻炼。

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(184) / 评论(0) 分类 美丽新世界

As the sun beat down, something like 4,000 cubic kilometers of water evaporated from the Mediterranean surface every year. And with no Atlantic water to replenish it, the Mediterranean dried out. In j

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Donald Trump on Thursday reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and sets the stage for a bitter fall campaign. 本周四,唐纳德

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(173) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

This town here has sort of been going through clean-up. People are trying to salvage things from their houses, but the reality is when you talk to them, there's nothing they can salvage when has been touched by this red toxic chemical mix. People sho

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Political Cartoons Help Iranians View Election With Sense of Humor For many Iranians, the presidential campaign played out on television - one candidate after another explaining their positions on the issues. While it didn't make for compelling viewi

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Doubt in her eyes, she turned then to Frank. Ought I to shave it? she asked, tight-upped. Frank put out his hand, revolted. Oh, Mum, no! Surely not! If she gets a good douse of kerosene it ought to be enough. Please don't shave it! So Meggie was marc

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尽管来人中大多数都是游民,但也不尽然,譬如,其中就有一个驾着老式的T型福特汽车而来的沃特金斯人。他什么都贩运。从马的涂抹剂到香皂;这种香皂和菲在洗衣的铜盆里用脂肪和苛性碱

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By David Gollust State Department 15 February 2007 The Bush administration reiterated Thursday that the missile defense system it plans to build in central Europe is not directed against Russia. The comments follow a reported warning that Moscow mig

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By Edward Yeranian Cairo 12 November 2009 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (file photo) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad says Iran and the West have entered a period of cooperation concerning its nuclear program. The Iranian president did

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They have been found living in boiling mud pots and lakes of caustic soda, deep inside rocks, at the bottom of the sea, 我们还发现细菌生活在沸腾的泥潭里和烧碱池里,岩石深处,大海底部, in hidden pools of icy water in t

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新GRE填空题通常都是信息量充足型的,也就是题目的信息恰好是可以选出题目空缺的信息(相对来说阅读是信息量过剩型,而类反是信息量缺乏型,数学则是信息量不对称型的。出题人挖掉的空

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学英语单词
ability bias
Alzheimer stain
antifuse circuitry
Askeland
avners
BDPU
break out into
bridge resistance
bromocyanogen
cable-access
carriage draw spring
cell death
clamp-iron
come the quarterdeck over someone
conventional welding condition
copy-pastes
covered joint
cowives
crime-lab
csutcbs
curcumbitate
daily cycling
deep-etch printing
degree matrix
dental ridge
Devipatan Division
double blind procedure
double link device
dry cleanings
endsay
enflourish
ENGRAULIDIDAE
entretien
erythema marginatum
facial color
falling cave
fewest component strategy
flexive
Franklin and Marshall College
geometric statistics
grain diminution
guard gates
hempsters
Hermannia
hodgins
household filter
hyperbolic coordinates
inversion reduction
Kaipara Flats
Kalimantan (Borneo)
knoblanch
Krummendeich
lambert zenithal equalarea map projection
larned
manufactures
megaseller
model-maker
moves forward
multinational corporation accounting
myxomatous chondroma
noona
offer to lend
optical asymmetry
pallidums
pay ... a compliment
permitted state
polylysogenic
private-aircraft station
pseudo steady state flow
pseudo-continuous zone refining
Ramus cochlearis
rbx
reflected energy
Repino
riebeckite aplite-granite porphyry
rosulate(rosular)
rubber tire carrier excavator
scrimer
set one's mind to something
shot puts
signal ability
siricin
skatology
social activities
sound fixing and ranging channel
special audit report
stepped focusing magnet
table zero-sided Lindenmayer system
thora-centeses
to oscillate
transmittal event
trichromat
trouserless
two-line iterative method
two-wheels
typp
upper gun
Ust'-Nyukzha
villaraigosa
voteless share
wellstar
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