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本杰明接到雪莉的电话，匆匆赶来家电商场，最终雪莉买了那款她钟情的微波炉了吗？ Listen Read Learn Benjamin: A microwave oven? Shirley: Yes, it's really two-pence colored. Benjamin: Okay, honey, we already have two. There is no more space for a third on

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Good morning Mrs. Hall. If none of your teeth are bothering you, I'll restore the tooth with the largest cavity. 霍尔太太，早安。 假如你的牙齿不让你难受的话， 那么我就把蛀的最厉害的牙补一补。 This is the tooth th

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When Pyrex(公司名) cookware first came out, it was advertised as the ice box to oven, because itwas made of borosilicate glass which could weather large temperature changes without undergoing thermo-shock and shattering. But today, Americans Pyrex

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-09-12

This is scientific American sixty seconds science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? When Pyrex cookware first came out, it was advertised as icebox to oven. Because it was made of borosilicate glass which could weather large temperature chan

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: One of the hottest gifts of the season is a little too hot, hot enough to catch fire. Hoverboards have been burning up because of problems with their lithium-ion batteries. And lithium-ion batteries are in a lot of things these day

美国发明家的电池技术或改变世界

American inventor John Goodenough first started working on battery technology more than 40 years ago. Goodenough actually co-invented lithium-ion batteries in 1980. This eventually led to a revolution in the electronics industry because those devices

VOA慢速英语--Demand for Lithium Creates ‘Water War’ in Chile

Parts of Chile are facing a growing water crisis. The Reuters news agency reports the government is taking steps to protect the countrys water supplies from mining operations. But for many years, the Chilean government approved water extraction right

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TED演讲:可能存在生命的三颗卫星和一颗行星(4)

A few months ago the fairy tale came true. 几个月前，童话故事成真了！ We announced to the world that we know what these streaks are. It's liquid water. 我们向世界宣布，我们已经知道这些条纹是什么了。是液态水。

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Cassini just a few months ago also flew through the plume, and it measured silicate particles. 卡西尼太空船几个月前又从这些飞溅的水流中穿过，它检测到了硅酸盐颗粒。 Where does the silica come from? 这些硅从哪来的

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BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- A huge asteroid will pass closer to Earth than the moon on Tuesday, but experts say there is no cause for alarm. Asteroid 2005 YU 55 will pass about 300-thousand kilometers from the earth. The giant space rock is about

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As China Molybdenum announced it was buying one of Africas largest copper mines earlier this month one thing was soon clear: the acquisition was about far more than the red metal. 随着洛阳钼业(China Molybdenum)本月早些时候宣布正在收购

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The U.S. space agency NASA's Mars probe Phoenix has detected icy snow falling through the Martian atmosphere. The spacecraft has also discovered material in the planet's soil that is leading scientists a step closer in their conclusion that life pro

你应不应该整夜给手机充电?

Chances are, you plug in your phone before you go to bed at night, thinking it's best to greet the morning with a fully charged device. 晚上临睡前，你可能会给手机充上电，想着第二天早上看到一部电量满格的手机。 Is th

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本期内容： Europe gave the world some of its top automakers, but it's losing out to China in the race to define the industry's future. China is the driving force in the business of electric vehicle batteries, which European leaders see as vital