SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's a spot on the grasses of the Serengeti in which the steps of small three-toed ancestors of horses seem to fall into the same path as the footprints of early hominids. Were they walking together, hunting together, or did two

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【英语语言学习】移民政策需要做出改变

JOHN BURNETT, BYLINE: Gerry is a 40-year-old bricklayer who lives in a suburb of Chicago. He doesn't want his last name used because he snuck into the country 21 years ago across the Canadian border with a fake driver's license and stayed. Now he's m

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【英语语言学习】监狱中的生活

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We're joined now from Dallas by Michael Fitzgerald Wilson and his son, Mark. Michael Wilson was just released from the U.S. penitentiary in Victorville, Calif., where he served a life without parole sentence since 1994 for a first-

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【英语语言学习】在太空中行走

This is For the Record. (SOUNDBITES FROM MOVIES) WILLIAM SHATNER: Space. TOM HANKS: Houston, we have a problem. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Astronaut is awestruck. SANDRA BULLOCK: What do I do? SHATNER: The final frontier. MATT DAMON: I'm going to have to sc

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【英语语言学习】远离战争回到家乡是多么困难

I worked as a war reporter for 15 years before I realized that I really had a problem. There was something really wrong with me. This was about a year before 9/11, and America wasn't at war yet. We weren't talking about PTSD. We were not yet talking

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【英语语言学习】越多的财富也就意味着越多的孤独

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Does access to money predict social behavior? That's the question posed by researchers Emily Bianchi and Kathleen Vohs in a new study. They dug into data for nearly 30,000 respondents of the General Social Survey - that's a lo

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【英语语言学习】免费的应用软件

Free software is the first battle in the liberation of cyberspace. Who controls your computer? Is it you or is it some big company thats really controlling it? Well, what is a computer? A computer is a universal machine. It will do any computation yo

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【英语语言学习】新闻言论的自由度

So this is James Risen. You may know him as the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. Long before anybody knew Edward Snowden's name, Risen wrote a book in which he famously exposed that the NSA was illegally wiretapping the phone c

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【英语语言学习】不要失去梦想

Good morning, boys and girls. [Audience: (Murmur)] That was terrible. Youve learned how to do that from a young age. Youre supposed to say, Good morning, Mr. Godin. So lets try again. Good morning, boys and girls! [Audience: Good morning, Mr. Godin!]

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【英语语言学习】平民主义

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: One of the most important forces in American politics today is populism. In both the Democratic and Republican races, politicians are tapping into widespread frustrations against the elites and the establishment. NPR's n

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【英语语言学习】用本子记笔记可以更好地帮助记忆

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: When you take notes on the puzzle or maybe when you sit down in class, do you pull out your laptop, or do you pull out a piece of paper? A researcher at Princeton University says it matters which one you choose because you'll lea

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【英语语言学习】当你成为你所厌恶的人之后

TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. We all know the Internet can be an ugly place, but what happens when you discover you're part of the problem? Writer Sarah Hepola is going to tell us about her own social media mistake. SARAH HEPOLA, BYLINE: I wa

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【英语语言学习】她跟丈夫说过不希望他去欧洲

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Many migrants die as they try to reach out for a better life. But what's often not considered is the family left behind. It's been a year since one woman's husband left their home in eastern Senegal in the hopes of findi

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【英语语言学习】尼克胡哲克服无望

Nick Vujicic is a motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs, talks about the importance of parenting in early childhood and its significance in overcoming hopelessness. Thank

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【英语语言学习】有关友谊的故事

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. You've probably had the experience of reconnecting with a childhood friend and being surprised at the direction your friend's life has taken and perhaps discovering that you each have different memories of that chi

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【英语语言学习】令加拿大蒙羞的事件

There is a strange thing happening in Canada. Research from the country's Native Women's Association estimates that as many as 4,000 native women may have gone missing or been murdered in the last three decades. An earlier study by the Royal Canadian

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【英语语言学习】寻求违禁药品的解决方式

We've been looking a lot at the issue of addictive drugs, opioids. Heroin is the one we think of first, but there are lots of legal prescription painkillers which are also classified as opioids - also addictive, but certainly medically necessary to t

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【英语语言学习】电脑可以写诗吗？

I have a question. Can a computer write poetry? This is a provocative question. You think about it for a minute, and you suddenly have a bunch of other questions like: What is a computer? What is poetry? What is creativity? But these are questions th

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【英语语言学习】猩猩喜欢互动类的游戏

Robyn Williams: The Science Show on RN. So what happens if you put an interactive system resembling a large iPad in an orangutan enclosure? Well, they've done it at the Melbourne Zoo with Microsoft Kinect and a touchscreen on the floor. Sally Sherwen

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【英语语言学习】耶稣是什么样子的

What did Jesus look like? Hello, Amanda Smith with you on RN, this is The Body Sphere. There's a sort of novelty book out that's called Finding Jesus. It's the same kind of thing as Where's Wally, you know, where you have to spot him in various crowd

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