Quit Buggin' Me! 我不走! Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. 现在,美国之音特别英语节目,词汇和它们的故事。 There are many American expressions about insects -- like bees, for example. Bees are known

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Two Chinese books have been named the most beautiful book designs in the world in Germany recently. 两本中国书籍获得德国世界上最美的书称号。 The Book of Bugs was awarded a silver medal, and Board Carvings by Leng Bingchuan grabbed

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. Next time you are shoveling snow off your walk, don't blame the weatherman, blame bacteria. Because an international team of scientists has found that micr

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. As long as there have been mice, people have sought a better mousetrap. And since we figured out that bacteria can make us sick, weve searched for better

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Theres a push now to find the fuel of the future. Will it come from corn? Sugarcane? How about bugs? University of Florida entomologist Michael Scharf

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This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? It's no secret cigarettes can yellow your teeth. But tobacco smoke has another, unseen effect. It can wipe out the healthy bacteria in your mouth, leaving the f

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This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science. Im Karen Hopkin, This will just take a minute. Have you ever said, I know it like the back of my hand? Well, how well do you know the back of your hand, or the back of your knee, or behind your ears? Pr

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This January, the country Turkey will join a handful of European nations that require visual health warnings on every pack of cigarettes. These images include things like diseased lungs and a foot sporting a toe tag. But maybe a Petri dish overrun wi

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The Ritual Every Sunday morning is the same. I wake up with a start to find myself buried in my wifes empty pillow. Im almost able to smell her. And my hands ache2) to touch her body. Thats when I remember shes gone. And so, wearily3), I rub the slee

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In a correlational study, lower average regional intelligence was found to be linked with higher infectious disease rates. Perhaps because the metabolic demands of the brain are great and resources are diverted to fight disease. Over the years, peopl

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Want to feed a hungry world? According to David Gracer, add bugs to the menu. Gracer is, he says, a normal guy whos also an entomophagist, an advocate for insects as food. He gave a talk about ingesting insects at a May 16th TEDxCambridge conference

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BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Mozilla's newly launched Firefox 4 Web browser was downloaded nearly 7 million times worldwide in the first 24 hours, according to media reports. The number was almost triple the 2.4 million downloads that Microsoft r

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?. [Spray sound.] Killing bugs? No. [Spray sound.] Deodorizing the bathroom? No. [Spray sound.] Checking for explosives, yes. Because chemists at the University of Califor

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? In the insect world, bright reds, oranges and yellows can be a warning: Eat me at your own risk, pal. Because colorful bugs can be toxic, they often get their

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Bacteria are amazingly adaptable. They live in hot springs, in the dead sea and of course inside people where they can dish up some truly nasty diseases.

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Seems like every other week brings news that global warming is gonna be bad for some poor animal or other. But plants? Well, I guess I was thinking that p

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Life on earth requires six basic ingredientscarbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorus. Those six elements are the building blocks for DNA and R

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. If you want to shell a walnut, it helps to have a nutcracker. And if you want to digest seaweed, it helps to have the right enzymes. Now, a study in the jo

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1.Women especially love a bargain. 女人特别喜欢便宜货。 2.Women love to shop. It is the only area of the world where they feel like they're actually in control. 女人喜欢购物。她们觉得那是她们在这个世界上唯一能控制的

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

TO GET an idea of where the worlds pharmaceutical industry is heading, a leafy complex tucked off a hectic road in Mumbai provides a clue. In one part of the building, Abbott, an American firm, is developing generic drugsa privilege it won when it bo

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