SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Looking Inside the Brains of 'Lucid Dreamers' FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. BOB DOUGHTY: And Im Bob Doughty. Today, we tell how warmer weather in the Arctic could speed up c

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(460) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

First, let's start by busting one myth about yawning. A lot of people have the misconception that we yawn because our brains need more oxygen. However, several studies have shown that no matter how little oxygen is around a person, they won't yawn mo

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松英文阅读

Now: A new study raises even stronger concerns about the risks of brain injury from the country's most popular professional sport. It's the focus of our weekly segment the Leading Edge. And Hari Sreenivasan has the story from our New York studios. We

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈健康系列

Connie and Willy are talking about the previous lesson. C: Do you believe what they say about chili peppers? W: Frankly speaking, I don't. The last time I got hurt playing soccer, my mom told me not t

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(190) / 评论(0) 分类 赖世雄中级美国英语

(MB) You'll recall that in last week's class I talked about how the sound made by most animals, though sometimes complex, are different from human language. Only in humans do these sounds represent objects and events. Keep in mind that most animals

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 托福听力短文

下表是某校关于中学生双休日活动现状的一份调查,请结合表格内容,用英语写一篇120150单词的短文,就中学生应如何过双休日发表你的看法。 学习情况 几乎都在学习 16% 半天学习半天活动

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语作文

Cities have a lot to offer, theater, music, restaurants, birds...Yes, birds. But city birds are not other birds, because big cities inhabited by birds with big brains, that's according to a study in the Journal Biology Letters. It can take smarts to

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(四)月

Scary music plays a key role in ramping up the fear factor in movies. The soundtrack has such an effect that I put my hands over my ears during the most frightening moments. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University report that scary music is even scari

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(九)月

4. Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning slightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Earnest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about. 【分析】并列复合句。and 连接两个并列分句。第一

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 考研英语长难句讲解

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Parents might tell teenagers, Act your age. But some scientists say that is exactly what teens are doing. They say that while teenagers can look all grown up, studies have found that their brains are st

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2007年(九)月

Lets Play the Brain Game 让我们玩脑力游戏 Hello and welcome to the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Im Anna Matteo and today we are going to talk about the brain! We all know what a brain is. A doctor will tell you that t

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Did you know that every time musicians pick up their instruments, 知道每当音乐家弹奏他们的乐器时 there are fireworks going off all over their brain? 他们脑里是到处在施放烟火吗? On the outside, they may look calm and focu

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

This one sentence before the story started was enough to make the brain responses 故事开始前的一句话就足以决定大脑的反应, of all the people that believed the wife was having an affair 所有相信妻子不忠的人, to be very

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

I felt sad at this, for it showed I was not such a good Scarecrow after all; but the old crow comforted me, saying, 我当然为此发愁,因为这毕竟说明我不是一个尽职的稻草人;然而那老乌鸦安慰我说: 'If you only had br

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If you have, continued the Tin Woodman, you ought to be glad, for it proves you have a heart. 如果你有心脏病,铁皮人接下去说,你应该感到高兴,因为那证明你有一颗心。 From my part, I have no heart; so I cannot have he

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Do it right now! 立即行动。 It's better than over analyzing what you want to do. 立即行动比一直停留在分析研究上好 You know what happens when you start over analyzing something? 你应该清楚当你开始不断分析事情的时候

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening

爱情大补帖许多歌曲、诗歌和书籍都描写了爱情对人的强烈影响。处在恋爱中的状态甚至被比拟成生病或发疯。伦敦大学学院(University College London)塞米尔札奇教授的一项研究发现,爱情的确会

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening

Subject:Do you mind if Ipick your brains? 迷你对话 A:Do you mind if Ipick your brains? 你介意我像你请教吗? B:No problem. I will help you as best as I can. 没问题,我会尽可能帮助你。 地道表达 pick ones brains 1.解词释义

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 迷你对话学地道口语

睡眠不足 You're Weepy 变得爱哭 Ever find yourself tearing up over an embarrassing TV commercial?While women might be quick to blame PMS, it could be a lack of sleep sending your emotions into overdrive. A 2007 study found that sleep-deprive

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening

专家表示:爱情类似毒品使人上瘾 The brains of people shown images of their lovers react similarly to those of drug addicts, a US experiment found. 美国一项科学实验发现,人脑对爱人照片的反应和吸毒上瘾时的反应相

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