VOA慢速英语 2007 1211b

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. On our program this week, we will tell about an environmental study of the recent wildfires in California. We will also tell how some wat

【英语3级听力】炎热的天气-Hot Day

It was a hot day. The sun was shining brightly. There were no clouds in the sky. He walked along the street. He was going home. He was hot and tired. He could not wait to get home. He was almost there. It was nearly one hundred degrees. There was not

1-14 军 团 病

Legionnaires' Disease 1 Legionnaires' disease is a serious and sometimes fatal form of pneumonia 2 . Legionnaires' disease is caused by infection with Legionella bacteria which are found naturally in

原版英文小故事 44. Are You Busy Friday Night?

One night a motorcyclist crashed into a bridge. The rider was on his way home from a party. Traveling at about 70 mph on the unlit, two-lane road, he lost control on a curve. He lay next to his motorcycle for 20 minutes before a passerby noticed the

SSS 2010-02-19

When youre looking for a table in a crowded cafeteria, you probably give wide berth to the family that sounds like its sharing a big dish of whooping cough. Well, not if youre a house finch, particularly a male. Because a study in the journal Biology

口腔临床英语对话 第21期:牙周治疗(1)

Part ten 第十章 Periodontal Treatment 牙周的治疗 Good morning. How are you today? 早安，今天好吗？ Just fine, except that my gums are sore. I've noticed that they bleed when I brush my teeth. 不错，只是牙龈还痛，我发现刷牙

轻松日记商务职场篇120:别信口开河

核心句型： Don't shoot from your hip. 别信口开河了。 shoot from the hip这个习语起源于100多年前的美国西部，那个年代多数人除了睡觉，腰带上都插着枪。而那些老练的枪手在急于射击时根本不把枪举

365个英语简短小故事-106. E. Coli Is Everywhere

We all have Escherichia coli bacteria in our intestines. These are the good strains of the bacteria. They help us digest our food. There are billions of these bacteria in our intestines and in our feces. Of the hundreds of strains of good E. coli, th

英语博客-北美风情 96、To brush up on something

图片1 You might be checking out this Culips episode because you are brushing up on your English! In this episode we look at three expressions that mean exactly the same thing: to brush up on, to bone up on, to polish up on. These expressions are go

英伦广角 粘性物使骨头结实并且柔软

New news is goo newswhen its inside our bones, anyway. Because a combination of imaging techniques and modeling has revealed that our bones are filled with a natural chemical goo thats key to the bones function as support structures. The finding is i

Tea May Help Fight Infection

Broadcast: April 30, 2003 By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English Health Report. American researchers say drinking tea may help strengthen the body's defense system against infection. Docto

E. coli infection cases rise sharply in Germany

BERLIN, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Germany's disease control center reported on Wednesday 365 new cases of the fatal enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), which marked a sharp rise since its outbreak in the middle of May. Twenty-five percent of the new cases inv

情景会话口袋书人际篇167:就诊(3)

9. A good rest in bed is all you need, and drink more water. 你需要好好休息，多喝水。 还能这样说： Remember to take a good rest and drink more water. You should have a good rest and drink more water. 谚语： A good winter brings a

英语听力：探索发现 科学新发现：我们的大气层-11

The planet also began releasing oxygen, thanks to an ancient adoption of photosynthesis. A very ancestral primitive plant cell either engulfed or tried to digest or surrounded a cyanobaterium and instead of digesting it, it actually became an organ w

【文摘】与细菌一起游泳

Everybody loves the swimming pool. But how clean is the water in the average backyard or public pool? If you trust chlorine to take care of germs, you're in for a surprise. Chlorine and other disinfec

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Mercury in Fish / Life on Land / The G

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Mercury in Fish / Life on Land / The Goldman Environmental Prize By Broadcast: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 (THEME) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm B

The Dog and the Bone

A dog once stole a bone from a butcher's shop．He ran off down the street as fast as he could，across the meadow in the village and down the hill to a rough bridge over a stream．There he paused，panting，to look at the clear，clean water．Wha

美国习惯用语:313 feel in your bone; throw sb. a bone

今天我们要讲几个包括bone这个词的习惯用语。Bone是骨头。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: feel in your bones。Feel in your bones这个习惯用语用了有一百来年了。它的起源很有趣，曾经骨折或者有风湿

学个词Learn a Word 第1328期 infection

今天我们要学的词是infection。 Infection, 感染。 MIT scientists are developing a new drug that might be able to fight any viral infection, 麻省理工大学的科学家正在研究一种新药，可能可以治疗任何病毒感染。 Re

英语听力文摘 English Digest 155、游泳会染上细菌？

Everybody loves the swimming pool. But how clean is the water in the average backyard or public pool? If you trust chlorine to take care of germs, you're in for a surprise. Chlorine and other disinfectants do indeed help to clean the water, but some