布兰妮斯皮尔斯(Britney Spears),美国著名女歌手,世界级流行天后。她于90年代末签约成为JIVE唱片公司旗下一名艺人。1999年凭借一首《Baby One More Time》红遍全球,并创下2500万张的专辑销售记

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英乐时空

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Leaders at the Group of Eight meeting last week in Heiligendamm, Germany, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany discussed is

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2007年(六)月

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A Yale student carries beets grown on an organic farm near the university in New Haven, Connecticut Beets are a tasty root vegetable that do not require much work to grow. People might think beets

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(146) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2007年(十二)月

Hot Computers Could Be Used to Heat Homes 能给家庭供暖的计算机服务器 When computer servers operate a complex program, they can get very hot. Cooling the servers can be costly. So researchers asked what would happen if the heat created by

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(五)月

AS IT IS 2016-05-04 Climate Change Could Make Parts of Middle East Unlivable 气候变化或使中东部分地区不适宜于居住 Climate change may make parts of the Middle East too hot for human beings, according to a new study. Researchers from

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AS IT IS 2015-11-03 More of Us to Go Thirsty As Earth Dries Up Water supplies around the planet are running dry at an alarming rate. Scientists say the world is experiencing a shortage of fresh water. It will only worsen as the population grows and t

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Harvard 359th Commencement was streamed live Thursday, May 27, 2010. Morning Exercises featured conferring of degrees on candidates from Harvard College, all Graduate Schools, and the Harvard Extension School, as well as the conferring of Honorary De

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语演讲

The wildfire in the US state of Arizona that killed 19 firefighters over the weekend remains uncontained. It has now grown into 13 square miles. At least 50 homes have been destroyed and 2-hundred more are being threatened in the city of Yarnell, tha

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Yogurt is a healthy food that can be made at home. One way to make it is to first buy some yogurt from a store or purchase dry yogurt culture. Add two small spoonfuls of the yogurt to two cups of mi

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

Yesterday, it snowed all day in most of Canterbury. It was wet, heavy snow which broke branches off trees. The Christchurch Botanic Gardens closed because of the danger of falling branches. The University of Canterbury, Lincoln University and CPIT al

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: July 2, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report. Lightning is the release of electrical energy in the sky. Lightning can start fires. It also

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BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Beijing's major commercial outlets started the year 2013 with a business boom as shopping prevailed over travels as citizens' favorite activity during the New Year holiday. Beijing marked the coldest New Year from January

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Weather forecasters say there is no immediate relief in sight to the eastern European cold snap that has killed at least 36 people since Saturday. Forecasters expect temperatures, which have been as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius in some places, to

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Snow finally came to the mountains and ski fields in both the North Island and the South Island. Queenstown had their winter festival two weeks ago without snow. The ski field was not open. Now the snow is on the mountain and in the town. On the othe

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WASHINGTON, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Scientists from IBM on Wednesday unveiled the world's smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms. Named A Boy and His Atom, the movie used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create n

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Chinas National Meteorological Center says another cold snap is set to sweep north and northwestern China from Monday. 国家气象中心消息称一股冷空气从周一开始席卷中国北部和西北部。 The cold air will bring more precipitati

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Residents in the south have been inundated by heavy rainstorms for several months. And there's no let-up in sight, as weather authorities predict more rain coming over the next 10 days. Southwest China and regions along the middle and lower reaches o

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科学家估计,如果不减少二氧化碳排放,2100年地球平均气温将至少上升4摄氏度,到2200年会上升8摄氏度,无疑是地球灾难性的噩梦。 此前有科学家用气候模型分析称,全球气温将受二氧化碳排

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Located on the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic, the Global Seed Vault is home to millions of seeds. The facility is surrounded by permafrost and is naturally cooled to around -3 degrees Celsius. And the main vault is cooled even further to -18 degrees

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

GUIDE, China, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The 3rd International Extreme Race of Winter Swimming across Yellow River started here in northwest China's Qinghai Province on Saturday. Being hosted in Guide County at an altitude of 2,200 meters in Tibetan Plateau

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