Placebo Effect Update

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 19, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. When scientists want to test the effectiveness of a new drug, they usually divide

NPR 美国国家电台 2014-09-02

The Israeli government has declared nearly 1,000 acres in the West Bank as state land and available for Israeli development. NPR's Emily Harris reports an Israeli peace group opposing the move says it's the largest reclassification of land since 1980

【饥饿游戏】15

Chapter 4 For a few moments, Peeta and I take in the scene of our mentor trying to rise out of the slippery vile stuff from his stomach. The reek of vomit and raw spirits almost brings my dinner up. We exchange a glance. Obviously Haymitch isnt much,

Belief in Cause and Effect

Benjamin Frankin wondered about(at) lightning. He combined his curiosity with imagination and carried out his well-known experiment to show that lightning and an electric spark are the same thing. Cur

神探夏洛克第二季第三集_15

神探夏洛克第二季第三集_15 你没事吧 长官? Are you all right, sir? 来陪我了? 嗯 Joining me? Yeah. 显然 Well, 痛揍总警司是犯法的 apparently it's against the law to chin the Chief Superintendent. 嗯 有点尴尬了 Hmm.

【荆棘鸟】第一章 02

The doll's golden hair tumbled down, the pearls flew winking into the long grass and disappeared. A dusty boot came down thoughtlessly on the abandoned dress, smearing grease from the smithy across its satin. Meggie dropped to her knees, scrabbling f

Birthplace effect “出生地效应”

今年7月，14岁的美国华裔少年刘继打破老虎伍兹的纪录，成为美国青少年高尔夫锦标赛史上最年轻的冠军，同时刷新老虎伍兹保持了19年的纪录。刘继出生在纽约州一个只有11万人口的小城市史

美国习惯用语: Lesson 231 - Give Somebody the Hook / By Hook

今天我们要给大家介绍的两个习惯用语都是以hook这个字为主的。Hook就是一个钩子。一百年以前，电影和电视还没有成为美国人生活的一个重要部份。然而

【荆棘鸟】第三章 06

What compels you to suffer the dust, the heat and the Gilly flies? For all you know, it might be a life sentence. A shadow momentarily dimmed the blue eyes, but he smiled, pitying her. You're a great comfort, aren't you? His lips parted, he looked to

英伦广角 2013-09-28 英国工党将推“外国工人带学徒计划”

A day of distraction for Ed Miliband. He obviously wanted the labor conference to focus on his new policy announcements on the minimum wage, on apprenticeship and immigration. But instead, Day 1 of the conference began with an angry backlash against

高清电视选购指南

访谈录,高清电视,选购,指南,We are at the Georgia Home Theater in Atlanta and if you are in the market for a new high definition or HDTV, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the letters and the numbers in the sales picture, so we ar

英国推出“英国人学徒计划”

英国推出英国人学徒计划 A day of distraction for Ed Miliband. He obviously wanted the labor conference to focus on his new policy announcements on the minimum wage, on apprenticeship and immigration. But instead, Day 1 of the conference beg

每日一词【753】side effect：副作用

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

英文歌曲：夏日里的温柔女声 Priscilla Ahn - City Light

Priscilla Ahn，美国独立民谣女歌手，是韩美混血儿，清新脱俗的嗓音，属于那种四季不变的最舒服的音乐，放在耳边听来，柔柔的，让人心情不由自主变得美好。 Artist：Priscilla Ahn Song：City Lig

学个词Learn a Word 第753期 side effect

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

Pope leaves Vatican, resignation takes effect

VATICAN CITY, Feb.28 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came into effect at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Thursday, who had left the Vatican by helicopter for the papal vacation retreat in south Rome earlier in the afternoon. The pope h

Efforts to ease medical costs take effect

BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Medicine prices at public clinics have been notably reduced thanks to a policy that promotes basic medicine, an office of the State Council said Thursday. Current price levels of basic medicine used by government-funded t

2015年CRI 长江倾覆客轮开始进行切割作业 外交部回应菲律宾涉南海言论

Rescuers are cutting into the hull of a capsized cruise ship on the Yangtze River in an escalated effort to find survivors believed to be trapped inside. Only 14 survivors have been rescued and more than 400 people are still unaccounted for since the

冰与火之歌系列之《权力的游戏》第962期:第四十五章 丹妮莉丝(15)

We are blood of his blood, Cohollo said. Here we wait. 我们是他血之血，科霍罗说，我们在这里等。 Qotho stepped close to Mirri Maz Duur. 柯索走近弥丽马兹笃尔。 Know this, wife of the Lamb God. Harm the khal and you suffer