One in seven Americans lives in poverty. The rate is the highest it's been since 1995. NPR's Tamara Keith brings us the findings of a new Census Bureau report that reveals the recession spared virtually no one. The reason more Americans are living in

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发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 128 The Zombie Project

40 years later, aero experts coined the term transonic. 40年后空气动力学专家创造了跨音速这个术语。 They debated, should it have one S or two? 他们争论这个术语应该用一个S,还是两个S? You see, they were having trou

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科技篇

So a word without its source is like a cut flower. 一个没有来源的词就像一朵被剪下来的花。 You know, it's pretty to look at for a while, but then it dies. It dies too fast. 看一会还可以,不久就蔫了。蔫得太快了。 S

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hi,I am Carl Auzus.You are watching CNN studentnews.We have a couple of awsome things in this particular Friday.The Men's field high tiger in Texas got our social media question,right?So congratulates to them.And we have a suprise for you in today's

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Conversation 1 对话1 A funny thing happened to me the other day. 前几天我碰到了一件好玩的事。 Oh, yes? 哦,是吗? I was just thinking about someone I went to school with friendly with in third grade. 我想起一个以前跟我一起

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Back in Iowa 早在爱荷华州时 my mother used to read to me the writings of Martin Luther King 我的母亲曾经读马丁?路德?金的著作给我听 In Dr. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail 金牧师在寄自伯明翰监狱的信中 he writ

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Are they on track for success? China has changed enormously over the last 20 years. Its economy has been growing at 10% a year, and it's on track to be the worlds largest economy soon. Today, 80% of the worlds electronic goods are made in China. As

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A sister of North Koreas leader shook hands with the South Korean president as representatives of the two countries sat together at the opening of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics. Sitting nearby was Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the head of th

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We are living on a planet with a lot of activities, with reference to our living environment,done by faith and guess alone. 我们对于这个地球上所发生的许多现象,都只是通过信念或猜测来认知。 Our lives depend upon these cre

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

AS IT IS 2015-12-19 Trending Today: Brazil Briefly Blocks WhatsApp 今日趋势-巴西暂时关闭WhatsApp This is What's Trending Today. A court in Brazil Thursday suspended the messaging service WhatsApp for 48 hours. WhatsApp reportedly failed to

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I found a way to be everything I've dreamed of, and I know it's in me that I will become who I want to be and I finially found it and I'm taking the long way out Cause it's gonna be, something special to me Something special to me Days go by and I gr

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The reality is, in Western countries, quite often we do focus on the pursuit of happiness as if happiness is something that we have to go out -- an object that we're supposed to get, or maybe many objects. Actually, in fact, if you look in the dictio

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There are people who will hold their positions with honor there are people who will not. If you doubt that all you have to do is thinking about the current scandal with Backdating of Stock Options. Here you have people in some of the most prospected

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 财富精英励志演讲

A killer bug spreading across the globe like wildfire sounds like something out of a bad sci- fi film. But while this is still the stuff of fantasy, microbiologists are concerned about the news of an enzyme with the potential to convert all bacteria

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Idiom: Practice what you preach 言行一致 Hit the book: Audience Circumstance Proceed Resist Channel Suppress 1. If you want to talk (or sing, act, etc.), you have to breathe. And if you want to do these things calmly, you'll need to breathe diaph

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is why grammar matters. One thing people said they wanted to hear more about in my print book is why grammar matters. I didn't think any of you would need convincing, but maybe you're looking for arguments to defend y

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A leading ally of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has resigned as speaker of the country's parliament. Boris Gryzlov announced his resignation Wednesday in a statement posted to the ruling United Russia party website. Gryzlov, who was elected a

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The first one is very simple: experience bars measuring progress 首先看一个简单的:用经验值条量度进程 something that's been talked about brilliantly by people like Jesse Schell earlier this year. 它曾经被人精彩地讨论过,比

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

永恒经典的英语名主题,今天再说一下。不过,今天的新角度,可能是你不知道的;比如Bill, Billy这些名字,其实都是William的小名。而Jack则来自John;Elizabeth这个女王名,更是可以变出10多个相关

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