Largest battle ever fought in North America took place in Pennsylvania 145 years ago this week. Transcript of radio broadcast: 29 June 2008 Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This we

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(六)月

Women Are Giving Birth at Home On Purpose! Empowering. Life-changing. These are two words women often use to describe natural childbirth. Painful would be a third. But thats a different story. This story is about midwives in Los Angeles, California.

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Giving Birth to Twins Jerome: Congratulations! I just heard that youre pregnant with twins. Paula: Thanks. Were very excited, although Im a little worried about a multiple birth. Jerome: I come from a long line of multiple births. My father is an ide

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1. genre /ʒɑ:r/ -- kind; sort; category Allan Poe was the originator of a genre of detective story. 爱伦坡是一类侦探小说的创始者。 2. progenitor /prəʊˈdʒenɪtə/ -- ancestor to whom a gruop traces its birth; forefather The Bible

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Mothers and babies have been in the news this last week. First, Statistics New Zealand announced a slight increase in the birth rate and secondly the Capital and Coast District Health Board (which has hospitals in the Wellington area) is worried abou

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Health Report - Does a Birth Control Method Raise HIV Risk? 健康报道 - 避孕药物是否真会增加艾滋病毒感染风险? This is the VOA Special English Health Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。 The World Health Orga

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Around the world, cesarean births are on the rise, and many experts think that's a bad thing. Now, a new study looks at one way that babies delivered by c-section are different. The number of surgical deliveries has been increasing for years. Some ce

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Mom's Flu Vaccination Boosts Baby Birth Weight Pregnant women who get vaccinated against influenza are less likely to have low birth weight babies, according to a study conducted in Bangladesh. In this study, 340 pregnant women were randomly assigned

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Access to Birth Control Sparks US Political Controversy What I want to know is where are the women? When I look at this panel, I don't see one single woman representing the tens of millions of women across the country, said Rep. Carolyn Maloney. Demo

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Dickens' Fans Mark 200th Anniversary of his Birth This is Portsmouth, about 100 kilometers south of London. It's a city with a proud past, one of the main homes of the British Navy. Tourists come here to see the historic port. But though the cultural

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NYC Schools Expand Birth Control Availability Every year in New York, more than 2,500 girls under 18 give birth, and many drop out of school. So officials began a program last year making hormonal birth control available at 13 high schools with high

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Approximately 6.6 billion people populate the earth today, with an estimated 3.7 billion living in Asia. But over the past 50 years, economic and social modernization in the region has been accompanied by a remarkable drop in birth rates. Sociologist

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Birth Defects Rise in Former Iraqi Battleground Five-year-old Lujane is one of hundreds of children in Fallujah who have been born since 2004 with severe birth defects. Her father says Lujane suffers from multiple afflictions that Iraqi doctors strug

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: You know, there seems to be a smartphone app for everything. You need a taxi, you use a ride-sharing app. You want food, you have delivery apps that are a dime a dozen. Well, now access to birth control is a few clicks away. Onlin

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50 Years Ago, The Pope Called Birth Control 'Intrinsically Wrong' NOEL KING, HOST: Fifty years ago this summer, the pope at the time, Paul VI, stunned Roman Catholics around the world by issuing a new ruling, a new papal encyclical. He called it, Hum

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今天我们要学的词是 birth rate. Birth rate 出生率。The birth rate in China fell last year despite the country easing its family planning policies and allowing all couples to have two children. 尽管中国政府放宽计划生育政策,允

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今天我们要学的词是birth rate。 Birth rate, 出生率。经济衰退会影响出生率吗?有数字显示,现在妇产科病人少了,避孕工具销量大增。 Experts say birth rates do appear to fall with economic declines, 专家说

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Rena Dam. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Imagine a family with three children.

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Late dance legend Dai Ailian was born into a third-generation Chinese family in Trinidad, learned ballet and modern dance in London, and went on to become a famed dancer, choreographer, and educator in the 'New China'. On the 100th anniversary of her

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