Drones at Work Worldwide, But US Still Lacks Laws Commercial drones, unmanned planes doing regular tasks, are being used more and more around the world. Some assignments for these unmanned aircraft might surprise you, others will amaze you. Think of

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(二月)

Virgin Spaceship Crash Raises Questions 维珍宇宙飞船失事引发诸多问题 WASHINGTON Plans to fly tourists to the edge of space could be delayed after Friday's crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during a manned test flight. It is the se

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A Chinese textile manufacturer is being held up as an example of the long-term economic benefits being reaped in a special economic area in southern Cambodia. Wentao, a Cambodian national, is one of a number of locals who works at a textile factory r

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Nowadays, GEICO is a well-known insurance company. For many years, however, it was unnoticed. Other companies, like Allstate and Farmers, were more popular. Then GEICO tried something different; it got a new ad agency. The owner of the agency, Billy

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据华尔街日报报道,年轻家长对潮童和萌娃的追捧带动中国婴童经济迅速增长, 而购物中心则纷纷加大儿童业态的比重来拉动商场销售. 中国年轻家长重金打造潮童萌娃 The Wall Street Journal: The ch

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It was a TV commercial. The TV commercial was about two old married people. They had had health problems. He had lost his job. They had used their savings to pay for health care. They went through their savings. They had no more savings. They were li

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By Jim Fry Washington 03 May 2007 Marine Osprey The U.S. Marines are preparing to send a new tilt rotor aircraft into combat for the first time. And the American manufacturer predicts a civilian version may soon appear over many of the world's citie

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 10 October 2007 Australia has taken its battle against Japanese whaling in the Antarctic online with a new YouTube campaign. Australia has been a fierce critic of Japan's plans to hunt 50 humpback whales in the Antarctic in the

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 23 April 2007 India has ventured on its first commercial space mission by launching an Italian satellite into space. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, this marks a milestone for the country's space program. India

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By Franz Wild Kinshasa 23 January 2007 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Tuesday, it is giving $29 million to a German micro-finance bank's Africa division. In Kinshasa, Franz Wild looks at the success of its Democratic Republic of Cong

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Australia and Japan have traded barbs ahead of a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Santiago, Chile. Japan accuses Australia of lacking the conviction to save crucial talks from a state of collapse. Australian Environment Minister Pe

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'Red shirt' anti-governement protesters carry a civilian after he was allegedly shot by a Thai army sniper near Ragprarop intersection during ongoing clashes in Bangkok, 15 May 2010 Street fighting continues in the Thai capital, Bangkok, as anti-gove

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Future for Commercial Space Endeavors Looks Bright Space the final frontier. Once the purview of cash-rich governments, launching rockets into space has become increasingly commonplace as demand for communications satellites and space-based imaging s

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Commercial Drone Industry Poised for Fast Growth 商用无人机:一个悄然快速增长的产业 U.S. regulators have approved the first use of commercial drones in the United States, giving an industry that is expected to create thousands of job

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Topics: Atlanta; Famous Americans: Michael Moore; to have versus to have got, singular versus plural verbs with percentages, sort of versus kind of Words: Deep South metropolitan area resident peach host civil rights movement segregation relocation r

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Eastern Atlantic fishing 'unsustainable' 大西洋东部捕渔过度 Overfishing is a greater threat to the area than pollution 对这一海区,过度捕捞的威胁大于污染的威胁 Two-thirds of the main commercial fish species caught in the

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 17 January 2007 watch Aircraft Protection report The U.S. government is attempting to address concerns that civilian aircraft are vulnerable to shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles. So it is testing a new anti-missile

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By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 09 October 2006 A worker is seen on the Airbus A 380 superjumbo assembly line in Toulouse, southwestern France Several airlines in the Asia-Pacific region are reviewing their options after the latest delay in the delivery

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今天我们要学的词是recreational。 Recreational, 消遣的,娱乐的。 Due to budget cuts, some of the recreational programs were eliminated by the county, 由于预算削减,县政府取消了一些娱乐项目。 All commercial and rec

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Topics: American Cities (Territories): American Samoa; how to become a pilot in the U.S.; objective versus subjective, to be flanked by, power versus empowerment; to delegate versus to defer Words: territory southern hemisphere indigenous to occupy r

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