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Pre-Listening Vocabulary binomial nomenclature: a two-part system for naming species (e.g., Panthera tigris) genus: a subdivision of a family of organisms (e.g., Panthera is the genus for tigers, lions and leopards, and a subdivision of the Felidae f

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China has more plants than anywhere else in the temperate regions of the world. In fact, it has almost twice as many kinds of plants as there are in the United States which is about the same size and about three times as many as there are in Europe.

名人轶事:Shirley Horn: One of the Great Jazz Singers of t

Shirley Horn: One of the Great Jazz Singers of the 1950s and 1960s Written by Cynthia Kirk (THEME) VOICE ONE: Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA IN VOA Special English. Today we tell about jazz singer and pianist S

AMERICAN MOSAIC - Shirley Horn Remembered | Baseball: Story

AMERICAN MOSAIC - Shirley Horn Remembered | Baseball: Story of White Sox Victory By Katherine Gypson and Jill Moss Broadcast: Friday, November 04, 2005 (MUSIC) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA

South Africa Proposes Legalizing Limited Trade in Rhino Horn

The parliament of South Africa may soon consider a law that would permit limited trade and export of rhinoceros horn for personal use. The government proposed the law earlier this year. It accepted comments about the measure for 30 days. That period

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With New Years resolutions the name of the game at the moment, weight loss is most likely on the minds of many. In fact, a YouGov poll taken in December 2014 showed that weight loss was by far the most common resolution, at 35% of all respondents; 20

美国习惯用语: Lesson 245 - to blow one's own horn / to blow

在今天我们要讲的习惯用语里，一个关键的字就是To blow. Blow这个字是一个非常勤劳的字，因为许多习惯用语当中都有这个字。你要想再找一个像blow用得那

VOA标准英语2011--New Initiative Provides Better Treatment

New Initiative Provides Better Treatment for Pediatric AIDS A new initiative has been launched to provide more and better treatment to children infected with HIV. Organizers say pediatric AIDS in developing countries should be considered a neglected

VOA标准英语2011--Warnings of Horn Drought Came Early

Warnings of Horn Drought Came Early 非洲之角干旱早有预警 Experts say there was plenty of warning that the Horn of Africa was likely to experience severe drought. Nevertheless, millions of people are now at risk. 专家表示，此前已经做

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While I was observing this phenomenal creature, two jets of steam and water sprang from its blowholes and rose to an altitude of forty meters, 当我观察这只奇怪动物的时候，两道水和汽从它的鼻孔吐出来，直喷到叫十米的高度

VOA标准英语2008年-Aid Group Warns of Horn of Africa Food Crisis

British humanitarian organization ActionAid is calling for governments in the Horn of Africa to help small-scale farmers and for donor nations to increase funding and food-aid shipments to the region. The organization says without urgent action, sev

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Arthur Ammann discovered that mothers could transmit HIV or AIDS to their babies through the placenta or breast-feeding Jan Sluizer | San Francisco 04 February 2010 California immunologist Arthur Ammann pioneered research that drastically cut the HIV

China pledges more aid for Horn of Africa

BEIJING, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- China pledged on Thursday to make more efforts to aid people living in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa in collaboration with the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC). We noticed that the ICRC launched an a

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The light from our glass coils produced magical effects at times, lingering on the wrinkled roughness of some natural arch, 我们的蛇形玻璃管中的光学，照在这些天然的凹凸不平的拱形建筑物上面， or some overhang suspended

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In the first group: organ-pipe coral, gorgonian coral arranged into fan shapes, soft sponges from Syria, isis coral from the Molucca Islands, sea-pen coral, wonderful coral of the genus Virgularia from the waters of Norway, various coral of the genus

美国习惯用语:391 take the bull by horn...

我们今天要学的习惯用语都带有这个词horn。 Horn这个词有几种不同意思。首先它可以指象公牛之类大型雄性动物头上长的角。在我们今天学的第一个习惯用语里horn就是这个意思： take the bull

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A triggerfish, I said. 是一条箭鱼。我于是说了。 It's a Chinese triggerfish, Ned Land replied. 尼德兰回答：是一条中国箭鱼。 Genus Balistes, family Scleroderma, order Plectognatha, Conseil muttered. 康塞尔于是低声说：箭

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There I saw again, but not yet pressed and dried like the Nautilus's specimens, some peacock's tails spread open like fans to stir up a cooling breeze, scarlet rosetangle, 我在这里又看到的，不是像在诺第留斯号船上风干的标本，而

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At intervals it hands down decrees, declaring that Zauschneria californica (a common plant in rock gardens) 它不时下达命令，宣布从今以后加州倒挂金钟（一种普通的假山庭园植物） is to be known henceforth as Epilobium can