November 5 is United Nations Tsunami Awareness Day. Tsunami is a Japanese word for a long, destructive ocean wave caused by an undersea earthquake. The goal of the observance is to learn from disasters of the past and to prepare for the future. Two t

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

You've heard about them, and maybe seen them in movies as they [dict]smash[/dict] apart ocean liners, or wash whole cities into the sea. What causes[dict] tidal [/dict]waves, and how are they different from the ordinary waves that wash against our co

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

In Natural Disasters the Poor Are Hardest Hit 穷人是受自然灾害最严重的群体 According to the World Bank, during the 1990’s, on average, about 50 people died per natural disaster in deve

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2005(上)--海啸灾难纪实

Tsunami Responsible for Over One Million Lost Jobs 受海啸影响,超过一百万人失业 The International Labor Organization, reports more than one million people have lost their jobs in Indones

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Acehnese Try to Build a Life on Shuttered Dreams 亚齐人民挣脱恶梦重建家园 Within days after the killer tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra , VOA Correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins

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Fossil 化石 Fossils are the ramains of animals or plants. 化石是动物或植物的遗骸。 They are usually inside of rocks. 它们通常在岩体内。 They are typically more than ten thousand years old. 它们通常有一万多年的历史。

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 与美国小学生一起学英文第5册

1. A lawyer representing a driver who reported his Toyota Prius sped out of control on a California freeway is sticking by his client's story. A congressional memo raises questions about what happened to James Sikes. The attorney says he's unmoved by

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2010(三月)

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at two forty-six p.m. local time on March eleventh. Japans Meteorological Agency released its first tsunami warnings just three minutes la

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(三)月

Hawaii Prepares for Possible Tsunami Scientists say rising temperatures on Earths surface are to blame for rising sea levels. The reality of rising sea levels means many coastal and island communities are at risk when a tsunami strikes. The island st

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In the end, we have to say, I don't know. 最后,我们不得不说,我不知道。 If we knew, God would not be God. 如果我们知道,上帝就不是上帝了。 To have faith in this God would be more like trusting an essential benevolence

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲娱乐篇

Governments around the world, as well as non-profit organizations, are pledging support for victims of Sunday's massive earthquake and resulting tsunamis that have affected more than a million people across the Bay of Bengal and in Indian Ocean coast

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- A major 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck southwest of U.S. territory Guam on Saturday local time, the United States Geological Survey reported on its website. The quake occurred at 7:19 a.m. on Saturday local time (2119

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Students in Sri Lanka Attempt Return to Normalcy 斯里兰卡学生尝试恢复照常上课 It's the first day of the new term for students at Sudharma College in the village of Galle on the southwest

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2005(上)--海啸灾难纪实

英语学习笔记: one thousand 1000 one million 1000,000(一百万) one billion 十亿 trillion 万亿 1.56billion 15.6亿 Grammy awards 格莱美奖 American Music Awards 全美音乐奖 Brit Awards全英音乐奖 The Academy Awards or The O

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 早安英文

SYDNEY, April 17 (Xinhua) -- A strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Wednesday, Geoscience Australia said. The earthquake, at a depth of 20 kilometers, occurred near the north coast of New Guinea, PNG at 8:55 a.m. (Aust

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Todd: Hello, can you introduce yourself please? Tarta: Yes. My name is Tarta, I am from Thailand. I live in the southern part, in the east coast. Todd: So Tarta, you were in Thailand when you had the tsunami? Tarta: Yes, I was right back from my Laos

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语趣味课堂

Some geologists have predicted that Canterbury has a 23% chance of another major earthquake in the next year. This is based on what computers can tell them from other earthquakes around the world but it is still impossible to predict earthquakes. Nob

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

As you will gather from this, measuring earthquakes is not always an exact science, particularly when interpreting readings from remote locations. 你从中可以知道,测量地震并不总是一门很精确的科学,尤其在牵涉到解释来自

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

本期内容: Conservationists have warned that the entire species of the critically endangered Javan rhino could be wiped out if a tsunami were to strike again. They once roamed the jungles of South East Asia and India, but today only 67 exist in

发表于:2019-03-03 / 阅读(170) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

The lady who brought us these photos was lucky, as far as the photos go. 那位给我们这些照片的女士非常幸运,就这些照片而言, She had started hand-cleaning them herself and stopped 她也开始自己亲手清洗照片, when s

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇