VOA慢速英语2017--少吃会帮助你活得更久吗？

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. If you want to slow aging, you might want to eat less. Researchers in the United States say eating less can slow the aging process of cells in the body. This finding is good news if you

关于手机各种传闻的真相

Janice Lieberman: America is a cell phone nation, dialing, texting and ringing, nonstop. (Inaudible) Ding? Yeah? Hello? Janice Lieberman: Although we can't live without our cell phones, most people do

金融世界 第十三讲(有声)

自从二十世纪八十年代初开始，澳大利亚与其他许多国家一样实行了货币浮动汇率制，英文是 floating exchange rates。也就是说，澳大利亚元的价格要随着市场

【听英文对话做选择】交通事故

1. Where did the car accident take place? A. in front of the house B. in the parking lot at the store C. at the post office 2. Which factor did NOT contribute to the accident? A. excessive speed B. a faulty car mechanism C. some obstructions in the c

经济学人:公司理论:协议是怎样构成的(2)

One insight from the literature is that a tightly specified contract can have perverse outcomes. 一种来自文学的深刻见解是，有严格规定的合约可能带来事与愿违的结果。 If teachers are paid according to test results, they

电信专业英英词典C-6

补充： CBR continuous bit rate CCIS common-channel interoffice signaling CCITT CCITT is the International Consultative Committee for Telephone and Telegraph, a consultative committee to the Interna

马有失蹄，章鱼怎么就不会缠住自己？

Researchers observed the behavior of amputated octopus arms, which remain very active for an hour after separation. Those observations showed that the arms never grabbed octopus skin, though they would grab a skinned octopus arm. The octopus arms did

访谈录 Interview 2007-06-26&06-28, 专访前世行行长

I think the people in Gaza have been disappointed up to now. You would remember that at one point, 18 months ago, there was in mind the production of flours and fruits in Gaza, and opening of the borders with Israel, and airport, the seaport, the lin

口译词汇之经贸篇

澳新紧密经济关系协定ANZCERTA：Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement 摆脱亚洲金融危机的影响shake off the impact of the financial crisis 帮助人才脱颖而出help excellent talents find way to distinct

热门单词：“互市贸易区”用英文怎么说？

辽宁省政府日前批准了在丹东市设立国门湾中朝边民互市贸易区，预计今年10月投入运营。 请看《中国日报》的报道： A border trade zone between China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), locat

改革让出租车市场更公平

Wang is a taxi driver in his fifties. He's been driving cabs in Beijing for a long time. He says he made a loss in the first two months of this year, and estimates he'll see another loss in March. Last year, since the popularity of the app, it has be

VOA标准英语2010年-Toyota President Apologizes for Global

The president of the Japanese automaker Toyota has apologized for the company's global recall of millions of vehicles due to safety issues. Akio Toyoda is the grandson of Toyota's founder. Toyota's top executive, president and CEO Akio Toyoda, offere

A Life Lesson from poor countries

I always like to extract life lessons from seemingly unrelated ideas. This time I want to discuss an interesting article titled Why Poor Countries Are Poor. The article, which talks about the reasons some countries are poor, takes Cameroon as an exam

剥夺利率和汇率调整机制 欧元先天不足

That Europe, and especially the eurozone, has not been doing well since the 2008 crisis is beyond dispute. 自2008年金融危机以来，欧洲特别是欧元区便一直没有健康过，这是无可争议的。 The single currency was supposed to

莫桑比克海岸发现疑似MH370飞机残骸

Debris that washed up on the coast of Mozambique could be part of the wreckage from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished almost exactly two years ago, Malaysian officials said Wednesday. 马来西亚官员本周三表示，被冲上莫桑比克

U.S. economy impacted by European crisis: Fed chairman

WASHINGTON, March 21 (Xinhua)-- The crisis in the euro zone has sent shocks to the United States through trade and financial channels, given the important cross-Atlantic economic linkage, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday. The

应对全球变暖为何如此紧迫

Is climate change the cause of extreme weather events? Until now the link has been suspected but never confirmed with scientific confidence. That position is now changing. A new study from the US confirms that for some extreme events there is a causa

委内瑞拉控制黑色外汇市场

CARACAS, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan Finance Minister Nelson Merentes said Sunday that his country needs to rein in the difference between the official U.S. dollar exchange rate and the unofficial street value. The parallel dollar is disruptive, h

雅思分类词汇：外贸相关词汇(1)

债转股 debt-to-equity swap 港元的联系汇率制 the linkage system between the US dollar and the HK dollar 坏帐、呆帐、死帐 bad account/ dead account/ uncollectible account/bad debt/ bad loan 反倾销措施 anti-dumping measures again

2016年CRI Reform Expected to "Make" Taxi Market Fairer

Wang is a taxi driver in his fifties. He's been driving cabs in Beijing for a long time. He says he made a loss in the first two months of this year, and estimates he'll see another loss in March. Last year, since the popularity of the app, it has be