By Jill Moss Broadcast: November 17, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report. The drug company Pfizer says it will give enough medicine free of charge to treat about n

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(137) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(下)-发展与科学

This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week -- learn about three separate studies that all involve faces. One has to do with facial blindness -- scientists have found that this disorder is mor

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

The condition called face blindness, but those who have it see perfectly fine. It's just that they can't process what anyone looks like even members of their own family. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has more in the second part of this series Mysteries of the Bra

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介绍: face blindness n. 脸盲 I am suffering from face blindness. 我脸盲。 blind date (由别人安排与一个从未谋面者的)约会 My Mom set me up on a blind date and it was so weird at the beginning. 我妈昨天安排我去相亲。刚开

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今天我们要学的词是 accelerate. Accelerate 做为动词,有加速,增加的意思。China's exports accelerated in July despite an escalation in the US-China trade war. 尽管美中两国贸易战不断升级,但是中国7月份的出口依

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A non governmental organization in Nigeria called Sightsavers is working to help restore sight to visually impaired people. The Federal Ministry of Health recently conducted a survey on visual Impairment. It found that about 1,130,000 people in Niger

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Simulating Blindness Might Help Improve Hearing 模拟失明或有助于提高听力 A new report suggests it might be possible to change the circuitry of the brain to better process sound, a finding that could give renewed hope to the 350 million pe

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The dream of gene therapy took a big step forward today. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee unanimously endorsed the first gene therapy for an inherited disorder. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein is with us now f

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D:I feel bad for male squirrel monkeys. Y:What?Why? D:Because they cant detect the colors red and greentheyre red-green colorblind. Y:Maybe,but scientists at the University of Washington used gene therapy to make squirrel monkeys produce proteins tha

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now the questions surrounding a research trial with newborn babies that allegedly didn't provide adequate disclosure to parents. The trial involved 1,300 infants at 23 hospitals who were born extremely prematurely between 2004 and 2009

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Todd: OK, Mike you mentioned that you had eye surgery, so when you had your eye surgery, could you see after your operation? Mike: Well, that's.. no, I couldn't because I can't see anything out of my left eye, so when I had the operation on my right

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Imagine not being able to recognize faces. You could see faces, but you'd be entirely unable to distinguish one face from another. All faces would look more or less the same--an amorphous assemblage of eyes, ears, noses, lips, and chins. To put it mi

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如此美丽的年纪,遇到如此美丽的伴侣,写下如此美丽的人生,就算不完整,也是一笔财富,这些都很难也不应该被忘记,这是我们美好的回忆。 歌词: I saw you yesterday and the look upon your face

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