[00:02.24]- Just up the hill. - Listen very carefully: Im not going. - 只是去山上 - 你给我仔细听好,我就是不去! [00:09.80]- Fine, be a jerk. Ill take care of him. - Yeah, thats good. - 行啊,做你的混球,我会照顾他的

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 听电影学英语-冰河世纪

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Artifacts found in Southern California have puzzled scientists for years. Some now say they are proof that humans lived in the area 130,000 years ago, well before anyone thought. That would make them the oldest evidence of humans i

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

Small carnivoreslike foxes or raccoons or badgersare themselves prey for larger predatorslike wolves. So they spend time hiding instead of hunting. This influence that big predators have on their ecosystem is called a landscape of fear. But humans ar

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You may have heard that humans and chimpanzees have something like 96 percent of our DNA in common. So why, then, are diseases like cancer so common in humans but so rare in chimps? If our DNA is nearly identical, shouldnt we be at risk for many of t

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Dear A Moment of Science, 亲爱的《科学一刻》栏目组: I know that humans and chimps share something like 98 percent of our DNA. But what does this really mean? At least on the surface, humans and chimps seem very different we live in hous

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary cell: a single functional unit of an organism reproduce: to make another living thing paternity: the state of being ones natural parent (esp. father) forensic: scientific evidence related to a criminal investigation Humans Sh

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To Avoid Humans, Tigers Take Night Shift Tigers dont have a reputation for being very accommodating, but a new study challenges the long-held conservation belief that these large carnivores need lots of people-free space. This new understanding is es

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(九月)

AS IT IS 2014-01-06 More Diseases Now Spreading from Animals to Humans 越来越多的动物疾病传播给人类 Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today on the program, we report on effort

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Japanese Robots Besting Humans at Games Tokyo University engineering professor Masatoshi Ishikawa has a good-natured response to frustrated human losers who accuse him of essentially creating a robot that cheats. [It is] not cheating. Every one milli

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Genome Shows Humans More Gorilla-like than Thought Sixty scientists worked over five years to sequence the genome of a single female lowland gorilla, the last of the great apes to have its DNA mapped. According to lead author Aylwyn Scally, of the Tr

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Meat Was Main Dish for Early Humans Modern-day humans eat a lot of meat. Some nutritionists say perhaps too much. But fossils in Tanzania indicate that early humans considered meat a dietary staple much earlier than first thought. Whats more, meat ma

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This is a story about the birds and the bees. When the Yao people of Mozambique want to find beehives full of honey they make this noise [brrrr-hm]. That sound attracts the attention of what are appropriately called honeyguide birds. If you ask Yao h

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57 这种动物是人类的祖先吗? DATE=6-13-01 TITLE=SCIENCE REPORT - Ancestor of Humans BYLINE=Jill Moss (Start at 59

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Humans Need More Sleep in the Winter: Say What? During this time of year, its hard to not be jealous of the various squirrels, hedgehogs, possums, chipmunks, bats, skunks, lemurs, and other small mammals that lower their body temperatures and their m

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The US is on the verge of meeting most of the economic conditions the Federal Reserve has set to increase interest rates next month, according to a member of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee. 负责制定利率的联邦公开市场委员会

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Dog Rules 狗法则 1. The dog is not allowed in the house. 1. 狗不能进屋。 2. Okay, the dog is allowed in the house, but only in certain rooms. 2. 好吧,好吧,狗可以进屋,但只可以进个别房间。 3. The dog is allowed in all

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Aliens exist and they live in our midst disguised as humans--at least, that's what 20 percent of people polled in a global survey believe. 外星人不仅存在,而且假扮成人类生活在我们中间至少有20%的人这么认为。 The Reuters

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Our entire space race of the 1960s was in response to an event 20世纪60年代,整个宇宙正面临着不同寻常的挑战 My God! 噢,我的天呐 If you breathe a word of what you've seen here, you'll do time for treason. 如果你透露了一

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Reflecting on his third consecutive loss, Lee Sedol admits he is under a lot of pressure after losing the first two games. Though I have a lot of experience in Go I have never felt before such severe pressure as I do now, and I suppose my abilities w

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非洲发现结核病的起源 The origins of humans have been traced to Africa. And now, so have the origins of tuberculosis. New research shows the evolutionary trees of both humans and TB have grown side-by-side. TB bacteria originated in Africa a

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