MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Now, is geography destiny? Does the place where you were born and raised determine how far you will get in life? Harvard economist Raj Chetty and colleagues recently developed an online tool called The Opportunity Atlas. It i

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

Day 7 artillery 炮兵 assault 袭击 ammunition 武器 atlas 地图 armor 盔甲 allocate 拨出 breakthrough 突破 collision 相撞 dispose 倾向于 errand 差事 escort 陪同 fleet 舰队 itinerary 路线 lurk 潜伏 mediate 调解 missile 导弹 notify 通报 objective 目标 re

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to raise taxes on cigarettes to persuade people to stop smoking. 纽约市市长比尔德布拉西奥(Bill de Blasio)希望通过提高香烟税鼓励人们戒烟。 He would raise the current $10.50 minim

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A full independent investigation will be held into a huge fire at the West Atlas oil rig in the Timor Sea. The blaze has been extinguished and the oil and gas leak fueling the fire has also been plugged. The West Atlas rig had been gushing oil into t

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Australian authorities are coordinating the rescue of up to 40 people off the Cocos Islands after their boat sank. A merchant ship has launched life rafts for the suspected asylum seekers after the Australian Maritime Safety Authority received a dist

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We'd like to think America is the land of equal opportunity. But that depends on exactly where in America you live. It's often said that you can predict the futures of many kids by finding out the zip code where they grew up. An

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It also turns out that thinking about mental illness in other animals isn't actually that much of a stretch. 同时更没有费心思索过其他动物的精神疾病。。 Most mental disorders in the United States are fear and anxiety disorders,and

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we

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Ayn Rand, 1905-1982: Americans Still Debate Her Books and Ideas Her two most famous books are The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tel

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莎士比亚说,一条虫可以吃掉一个死去的国王。不幸的是,寄生虫可以感染活着的人类,特别是小孩。 Shakespeare noted that a worm may eat a king, after that king is dead. Sadly, parasitic worms infect people who ar

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asceticism n.禁欲主义 aseptic adj.无菌的,洁净的 asinine adj.愚笨的 asparagus n.芦笋(可作蔬菜) asperity n.粗鲁,艰苦 aspersion n.诽谤,中伤 asphyxiate v.(

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1. An Internet video posted showed Tuesday appears the beheading of Steven Sotloff, the second American journalist to be killed by Islamic extremist. US official says they are working to determine if the video is authentic but both of the son loss fa

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AS IT IS 2015-09-08 Missile Silos Turned into 'Survival Condos' 导弹发射井变成生存公寓 When looking for a new home, many people consider things like the safety of the area, the nearness to public transportation or the quality of the neighb

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A community radio project in Senegal's troubled Casamance region is trying to help the peace process there by encouraging dialogue in an atmosphere of ongoing tension and violence. Pasted to the wall inside Fogny FM, a radio station located just sout

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A vegetable vendor in Guatemala with dark straight hair framing her face, deeply etched with lines, an insurance sales team in Cape Town dressed in dark suits and waiting for a bus, a mother in Tehran, head wrapped in purpl

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster we talk about regional changes in American English with University of Pennsylvania linguist William Labov [la-BOVE]. Imagine a situation like this: WILLIAM LABOV: Someone says 'gee

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美国好奇号将登陆火星 The U.S. space agency is preparing for its newest Mars rover, Curiosity, to touch down on the Red Planet on August 6. The rover's entry and descent will be nerve-wracking for NASA engineers, compounded by a 14-minute de

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LOS ANGELES, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Many Hobbit fans were excited or worried when Peter Jackson announced Monday that he will stretch the originally planned two-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy-adventure The Hobbit into a trilogy, some

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December 17th, 1903Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. The brothers achieved the pioneering feet with their experimental craft, dubbed the Wright Flyer. 1957T

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First broadcast: January 12, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sounds of change. RS: If you want a good example of how language changes, just picture a mouse. Are you thinking of a rodent -- or a device f

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