美国国家公共电台 NPR As Mexico Capitalizes On Her Image, Has Frida Kahlo Become Over-Commercialized?

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In a few short decades, the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo has gone from obscurity to pop-culture icon. Forever 21 and Zahra have sold clothes with her self-portraits. But a recent lawsuit to stop the sale of a Barbie doll in Frida Ka

A New Device is

Broadcast: Jan 15, 2003 By Jerilyn Watson This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Many millions of people around the world suffer from problems of the small intestine. Bleeding from abnormal gr

地道英语在线听-Spitting Image 相貌酷似的人

Do you resemble someone famous? Jo: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English, Im Jo. Sun Chen: 嘿，你好吗？我是孙晨。 Jo: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. Sun Chen: 你是不是已经发

技术人员给手机装上显微镜(有声)

After hundreds of years, the most common, basic microscopes still operate by means of the same old hardware: the lens. But what if you could do away with that lens and create a microscope that fits on a cell phone? Thats what researchers led by Aydog

VOA慢速英语2017--谷歌翻译会做哪些你不知道的事情?

Eight Things You Didn't Know Google Translate Could Do As smartphones continue to get smarter, we can only expect Google Translate to stay one step ahead. Over 200 million people around the world now depend on the free application every day. And yet,

U.S States Use Slogans to Enhance their Image

By Ted Landphair Big corporations use memorable slogans or symbols -- like the

ESL Podcast 208 – Corporate Image

Adam: With our expansion into these new areas of business, I think we need to think seriously about changing our corporate image. Were much more than just a paper company now. Eva: I think youre right. Our brand has changed, and if we want to keep br

SSS 2009-10-06

The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Charles Kao, of Standard Communications Labs in England and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and George Smith and Willard Boyle of Bell Labs in New Jersey. Kao figured out how to transmit light over long distanc

英语杂谈：46 Light therapy device fights acne

Scientists know all about the therapeutics qualities of blue and red light. But until know, sufferers of acne have to go to hospital to benefit from it. But Lumie, the manufactures of this new LED device hope it would see light therapy moving to the

2007年VOA标准英语-Rwanda Says France Protecting Image by Resistin

By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 05 July 2007 Rwanda's foreign minister says France is refusing to try former officials on charges that they may have been complicit in the 1994 genocide because it does not want them to be associated with such a crime. Nick Wa

VOA标准英语2013--Device Keeps Internet On When Power Goes Off

Device Keeps Internet On When Power Goes Off Erik Hersman and his team in Nairobi have created what they say is the first router made especially for Africa. It's battery powered and rugged. And it's gaining attention in Europe and the United States.

Body image survey results

BBC Learning English Weekender Body image survey results Amber:Hello, I'm Amber, and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Weekender today, we listen to a report about a BBC survey of 25,000 young British people, asking about their body imag

印度研发35美元最便宜"笔记本"

印度政府日前推出了一款世界上最便宜的笔记本电脑，售价仅为35美元。据印度人力资源开发部长介绍，这款低成本的触摸屏电脑的主要针对用户为学生，计算机的主板、芯片、处理器、内存和

<词海拾贝>Spit And Image：极其相似

大家都知道spit的意思是“唾液”。可奇怪的是，有一个和spit相关的词组spit and image的意思却是“和……一模一样的（人或东西）”。 语源学界普遍接受的

美国习惯用语:410 dead shot; spitting image

今天我们要讲的两个习惯用语有同样的意思。它们都用来说某一个人非常像另一个人。第一个习惯用语是：dead ringer。 Ringer原来意思就是酷似某人的人或者很像某物的东西. Ringer有时可以指冒名

VOA常速英语2008年-War in Iraq Badly Damages US Image Internationa

By Michael Bowman Washington 17 March 2008 The image of the United States has suffered as a result of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. Opinion surveys show international approval of the United States at all-time lows. VOA'

美国变焦"隐形眼镜"华丽登场

Implantable 'eye telescope' that magnifies vision by three times approved for use in patients可以三倍变焦的眼中望远镜已被批准医用。 A miniature telescope that is implanted in the eye to solve sight problems has been approved for us

Enterprises try to refurbish image in overseas advance

CHENGMAI, Hainan, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- As China seeks to shake off its image of the world's mass-producer of cheap products and move up the value chain, Chinese companies are trying to reshape their reputations in the international market to win accept

托福阅读详解之摄影史

托福频道在此与大家分享托福阅读之摄影史(The Birth of Photography)，其中包括托福阅读词汇及词汇在文中的使用以及相关题目。希望对大家复习托福阅读有所帮助。 Perceptions of the visible world were

英闻天下——247 China Criticizes Japan for Tarnishing Its Image

The Chinese government is accusing Japan of intentionally tarnishing China's image. The accusation comes following reports that a Chinese vessel put a radar firing lock on a Japanese naval patrol in the East China Sea this week. Chinese foreign minis