VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we tell about a system of planets orbiting a star called Fifty-Five Cancri. And we hear about a plan to harvest electricity from cro

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Obama Announces Clean Power Program 奥巴马宣布清洁能源项目 President Barack Obama announced the final version of his Clean Power Plan this week. Mr. Obama says the plan will reduce carbon pollution from power stations by one-third over the

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巧妙利用工作上的压力 What would you say when you are under work pressure, stressed out and frantic or challenged and energized? There is very little physiological difference between the two, says a growing contingent of experts who claim wo

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中美合作应对空气与气候问题 Prior to her visit to China next week, Gina McCarthy, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, says her country's expertise and advanced technologies will help China deal with environmental challenges.

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你决定你成为什么样的人 Do not become overly comfortable with TV and YouTube as your primary sources of entertainment. Go places. Try new things. Follow your curiosities and passions. Take chances. Dont let fear and complacency stop you fro

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TED英语演讲:肠胃里的大脑 This technology made a very important impact on us. It changed the way our history developed. But it's a technology so pervasive, so invisible, that we, for a long time, forgot to take it into account when we talked

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Vietnam to Increase Electricity Production with Natural Gas Imports Vietnam plans to start using liquefied natural gas, or LNG, by the year 2020. Although Vietnam has said it would be hurt by the effects of climate change, it plans to move forward wi

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Lesson 4 Sports 第四课 运动 February 9 2月9日 Let's Watch a Basketball Game 看篮球赛 Read it! 读读看! Rob will go to a college basketball game tomorrow. 罗柏明天要去看一场大学篮球赛。 Alex and Jim can go, too. 亚力克斯

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Do you ever have those days where everything is a little overwhelming and hectic? Maybe youve had a few too many of those days; but its time to change that。 有没有一些日子让你觉得喘不过气,狂躁?也许你总是有着这样的感受

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Business 商业 Energy Transfer bids for Sunoco ETP竞购Sunoco Put that in your pipe 纳入油管中 A pipeline deal to exploit America's fast-changing energy landscape 美国能源局势快速多变,一桩油气管道交易抓住了契机 NODDING

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The plan will require two transformations, one micro and one macro. The first is an unruly, subsidy-fed explosion of wind, solar and biomass power, a strange mixture of idealism and greed, as one energy boss calls it. The second is the effort to pull

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JEFFREY BROWN:Next: how one public school in New England is taking a different approach to teaching, immersing students in an unusually comprehensive science curriculum that emphasizes problem-solving. Special correspondent John Tulenko of Learning M

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德国政党推出的新联合内阁阵容 BERLIN, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their coalition partner, the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), unveiled their picks for the new cabinet on Sunday, which will

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1. Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.爱斯基摩人用冰箱防止食物结冰。 2. Astronauts circling the Earth may get to see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every “day”

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Imagine a busy day at work. One of your coworkers walks over to your office and asks for your help he is struggling to understand some financial projections. You put aside what youre doing and spend the next 45 minutes helping him sort through the fo

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We all want others to like us. Deep down in our hearts we all want to feel supported, respected, and, most importantly, loved. 我们都希望别人喜欢自己。内心深处,我们都渴望被支持、被尊重,更重要的是,被爱。 Yet,

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也许听到这个消息,有的人会很生气。瘦人对环境有益。但这不是对胖人们的人生攻击,只是提示大家,我们都需要注意健康了。经研究发现,由于食品生产加工和运输等因素,超重的人群比

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DUBAI, April 19 (Xinhua) -- The vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum will begin on Sunday a visit to Mexico which will be followed by visits to Brazil, Argentine and Chile, state ne

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BEIJING, June 25 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese official on Monday called for the country to speed up mass production of shale gas with its own technologies to ensure adequate energy supply. Efforts must be made to achieve early breakthroughs in the ap

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China automaker BYD has signed up international celebrity Leonardo DiCaprio as brand ambassador for its new energy vehicles. The agreement runs through 2017. 近日,中国汽车制造商比亚迪正式签约了国际名人莱昂纳多迪卡普里奥,

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