英语音频杂志：保护动物

Animal conservation Many animal and plant species have become extinct and many more are in critical danger. Finding ways to protect the earth's wildlife and conserve the natural world they inhabit is now more important than ever. Extinction Extinctio

体育教育

在学的日子被认为是你人生中最好的日子，而在学当中的经历包括了一些剧烈的体力活动。以下记载一些运动场上的往事 Physical education by Richard Sidaway School days are supposed to be the best days of your

英语音频杂志：毛里求斯岛

The Island of Mauritius God first made Mauritius and from it, he created Paradise. Mark Twain 1896 Where is it? Over ten million years ago, the waters of the Indian Ocean boiled. Massive volcanoes erupted miles underneath the surface. Huge amounts of

英语音频杂志：海上救援

Rescue at sea the RNLI by John Russell Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea! These words come from a famous hymn by William Whiting: 'Eternal Father Strong to Save'. It is better known as the Naval Hymn and is popular with m

英语音频杂志：海滩

A beach By John Russell Imagine a beach; a quiet place, with only the noise of the sea and the gulls in the background. There are boats floating near the shore and a few people swimming in the water next to them. Its a hot day, and there are some peo

英语音频杂志：有毒的动物

Venomous animals Sea wasp Despite the glorious semi-tropical climate, nobody swims at beaches in the northern half of Australia from September to May. For there, all but invisible as it cruises in the calm tropical shallows, is the world's most dange

英语音频杂志：摇滚祖父

Rock'n'roll grandads by Chris Rose In 2005 The Rolling Stones released an album called A Bigger Bang. Many critics, as usual, chose it as their favourite of the year. This isnt very surprising, but if you think that A Bigger Bang was their 25th album

英语音频杂志：手机

Mobile phones by Craig Duncan When Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it was a revolution in communication. For the first time, people could talk to each other over great distances almost as clearly as if they were in the

英语音频杂志：恶习、投资和七宗罪

Vice, Investment, and the Seven Deadly Sins by Craig Duncan March 2005: its official vice pays. And its not even illegal. This month the Financial Times examined the spectacular growth of The Vice Fund, a Texas-based investment company which encourag

英语音频杂志：恐龙是什么样子的？

What did a dinosaur look like? By Linda Baxter Can we believe what we see? Dinosaur art has a long history. Life-size models in natural history museums, paintings and drawings, children's toys, and of course, the recent spate of computer generated fi

英语音频杂志：尼日利亚的非洲音乐

The Nigerian Sound of Afrobeat By John Kuti My surname Kuti is a normal Hungarian surname it means something like Wells as in the places where you get water out of the ground. By a strange coincidence Kuti is also a name in Nigerian. In the Yoruba la

英语音频杂志：成为你自己的调查记者

Be your own investigative journalist by John Kuti News in the age of information We are often told that the age of the information economy has arrived. The idea is that intellectual work is becoming a more important source of wealth than manufacturin

英语音频杂志：冲浪

Surfing by Nik Peachey I've spent most of my entire life surfing, the rest I've wasted. (Anonymous) It seems that the oceans of the world have become many things to many different people. For some the ocean is a source of food and income, for others

英语音频杂志：园艺之起源

By John Russell Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made by singing: -Oh, how beautiful! and sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling, The Glory of the Garden Are gardens a recent invention? The modern garden has a history going back many

英语音频杂志：名字

Names by Katherine Bilsborough Shakespeare told us that a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet. But is that true? Are names important? Are you happy with the name that you were given as a baby? And how do you choose a name for your own child

英语音频杂志：危险：小鸟池

Danger: Bird Bath! by Andy Baxter We all know that chainsaws are very dangerous. In Britain, 1207 people had to visit hospitals after accidents with chainsaws in 1999. However, in the same year, 16,662 people, more than twelve times as many, were inj

英语音频杂志：冬奥会

The Olympic Motto is 'Citius, Altius, Fortius', (or faster, higher, stronger), and when you hear the words The Olympics, you may see mental pictures of tanned men and women athletes in brightly coloured sportswear, trying hard to live up to the motto

英语音频杂志：学生力量

Student Power by Chris Rose When most people think of strikes, they think of factory workers asking for better pay and conditions, or perhaps refusing to work to support a colleague who has been unfairly sacked. It is not often that people associate

英语音频杂志：土著人口

Indigenous peoples by Richard Sidaway 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children (Native American proverb) In December 2005, Evo Morales became the new President of Bolivia. He was only 46 years old and openly sup

“tingo”的意思

The Meaning Of Tingo By Chris Rose I recently found a book by the writer Adam Jacot de Boinod called The Meaning Of Tingo. As a native speaker of English, I was a bit confused. I had never heard of this word tingo, and was curious about the title of