Why Is 'Cream of the Crop' the Best of the Best?

Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. On this show, we explore language. Where do expressions come from? And how do we use them? Today we go down on the farm the dairy farm, to be exact. Many female animals, such as cows and

VOA慢速英语-Agriculture Report - Adding Up Crop Losses From Midw

The hardest-hit state is Iowa, the leading corn state and last year's top soybean producer. Transcript of radio broadcast: 24 June 2008 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers in parts of the American Midwest face a difficult rec

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(7)

Today, we have young women like this one teaching villages in Africa how to put their animals together into larger herds, plan their grazing to mimic nature, 今天，我们有像这样的年轻女性在非洲的村庄里传授技术，如何把他们的

SSS 2008-08-26

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Don't be fooled by those big bovine eyes and the mouth slowly chewing cudcows have a magnetic personality. At least thats the claim made by German researchers in the

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Why men and women don't have tails like cows? 人类为什么没有像牛那样的尾巴？

2007-12-25, Crop Circles--麦田怪圈

Johnny, looking out there. What do you see? field, some hay. No, its more than that, mate. Come on, now work with me here. What is it? Honestly man, I just see a field. It's a cosmic canvas. It's a blank supernatural sheet for extra terrestrial art.

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For one month, his army plundered, burnt and raped. A year later, visiting foreign ambassadors described the streets as

96.Older Goats in America

A group of Americans were traveling by tour bus through Holland. As they stopped at a cheese farm, a young guide led them through the process of cheese making, explaining that goats' milk was used. Sh

SSS 2011-08-02

Plants are sitting ducks for every hungry herbivore that wanders past. But for some greens, a little grazing is the best thing that can happen. They grow back faster and fuller and make more seeds than they would have if left alone. Now scientists kn

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We're traveling by train.Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn ad wheat, of f

VOA慢速英语 2007 0306a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. To call something marginal means it is not very good. Farmers have their own way to define marginal land: It is the last to be planted under good conditions, and the first to be avoided under poor c

VOA慢速英语 2007 1106a

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Farming Marginal Lands By Mario Ritter / Broadcast: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 16:00:00 UTC This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. An Australian farmer stands on land damaged by lack of rain last year To call land marginal mea

VOA慢速英语 2008 0115a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cattle graze in the western state of Oregon Grasslands need time to rest when cattle and other animals feed on them. Moving animals from one area of pasture to another can provide the time needed f

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FOR ALL LITTLE BIRDS 为所有的小鸟 NANCY BYRD TURNER 南希伯德特纳 God who loves all things, 上帝爱万物, Folks and flocks and herds, 无论是人类，还是飞禽和走兽， Lend an ear to this my prayer 愿他垂听我的祈祷, For

美国国家公共电台 NPR Clashes Over Grazing Land In Nigeria Threaten Nomadic Herding

LYNN NEARY, HOST: For the past decade, Boko Haram has been killing thousands across northeastern Nigeria, causing millions to flee from their homes. But now there's another conflict in Nigeria that's killing more people than Boko Haram and threatenin

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - Giving Grasslands

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Grasslands need time to rest when cattle and other animals feed on them. Moving animals from one area of pasture to another can provide the time needed for new growth. This is called rotational graz

VOA标准英语2008年-High Crop Prices Squeezing US Farmland Conserva

By Brian Wagner Miami 14 May 2008 As crop prices remain high, farmers and other landowners are working to expand their output and take advantage of big profits for wheat, corn and soybeans. The boom is creating pressure to begin farming on lands enro

GRE阅读：如何快速锁定正确答案

GRE阅读理解考查的范围非常广，不像填空、类比和反义那样注重基础和词汇量，而GRE考试的阅读又与其他考试中的阅读有很大区别，所以在技巧方法上也要区分对待。GRE阅读中多见长句，对理

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LEADING HIS OWN HERD 领导象群 It was not only Kubwa's strength that made him win, for often he tackled elephants who were really stronger than himself. 库巴的力量不仅使他获胜，因为他经常对付比他强壮的大象。 But he was q

【英音模仿秀】大众总裁辞职

模仿句子：The company says 11 million cars were fitted with the software used to rig emissions tests in the US. Worldwide lawsuits with penalties into the billions could follow. 翻译：公司宣称：在美国，有1100万辆大众汽车配置了