Laughing with Helen Hunt David: How do you like being in New York City? Of course you spend a lot of time here anyway in New York City. Helen: I’m up here about half the time. David: You have your d

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

Text Ernest Hemingway's story is about an incident that happens between a father and his son. The small boy's misunderstanding of the difference in measuring temperature on a Fahrenheit and a Celsius Scale causes him to believe that he is drying of a

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Science and technology 科学与技术 The fight against AIDS 对抗艾滋病 HIV's slow retreat 艾滋病的缓慢退却 One of the world's worst plagues is giving ground 抗击艾滋病:显现曙光 THE timing of the pope's much-discussed change

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Xinhua) -- What's driving the rise of obesity in the United States? A group of economists argued in a recent study that big-box grocers, warehouse clubs and fast-food restaurants are key contributors to the county's obesity epide

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(265) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Do you have any idea how much sugar you're eating? It's probably a lot more than you think. 你知道你一天吃了多少糖吗?结果可能远远超过你的想象。 As this shocking graphic reveals, millions of us are unwittingly eating everyda

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Science and technology 科学技术 HIV and AIDS 人体免疫缺陷病毒和获得性免疫缺陷综合征 Till death do us part 直到死神将我们分开 Putting numbers on infidelity 细数出轨之罪 ONE of the problems of dealing with a sexual

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WASHINGTON, April 13 (Xinhua) -- The United States and the African Union (AU) signed an agreement on Monday to establish a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Africa. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, chai

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

TAIPEI, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- The number of dengue cases reported in Taiwan has risen to 26,910 as of Friday since the outbreak in May, said the island's disease control center on Saturday. On Friday, the island reported 261 new cases, 150 in the south

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The United Nations is holding a special meeting with donor countries to drum up support for its cholera treatment and control operations in Haiti. It says it has received less than half of the $175 million it needs to carry out its life-saving progra

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama announced Thursday that his administration is committing an addition 50 million U.S. dollars in funding for domestic HIV/AIDS treatment and care. Obama also set a new target of helping six mi

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The Zika virus outbreak in Latin America could be a bigger threat to global health than the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in Africa. That's according to several public health experts who spoke with the Guardian and Examiner newsp

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英汉两种语言都有被动语态,但由于表达习惯上的差异,英语往往习惯用被动语态来表达,而汉语则和主动语态来表达。 如:That young man cannot be relied upon.译成汉语就应该是那位年轻人不可信赖

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Theres a culture of walking and texting on the Utah Valley University campus, according to conversations with students, but thats not the main reason Matt Bambrough, the creative director at UVU, came up with an idea to paint a texting lane on a stai

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The outbreak of SARS, bird flu and Mexican swine flu has warned us that new infectious diseases are emerging at an unprecedented rate around the world and spreading faster than ever. It is now generally accepted that global epidemics are threatening

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BEIJING, May 31 -- China will report its progress on tobacco(香烟) control to the member conference(联盟) of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) next year, but many experts say that there is still a lot to be done. China is

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A 44-year-old man from South Korea is being treated in isolation. Medical staff say he suffers from a high fever and a possibly infectious pneumonia. According to authorities, the man had close contact with his father and sister, the third and fourth

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What is to be done? 那应该怎么办呢? Just as American politics did not sour overnight, so the route forward is by many small steps, beginning with next week's elections. 正如美国政治不会在一夜之间恶化,前进的道路也需要很

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Time magazine on Wednesday named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its person of the year for 2015, hailing her leadership during debt and refugee crises that threatened to tear the European Union apart. 当地时间12月9日,德国总理安格拉默

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Experts in Taiwan have expressed concern that the spread of bird flu may cause a shortage of poultry products and price fluctuations in the market. Taiwan Poultry Association Secretary General Wang Chien-pei says the spread of the virus could make it

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Other parents fret about thimerosal, a preservative that contains trace amounts of mercury. Not only were these amounts minute and safe, but thimerasol has now been eliminated from all vaccines, with the exception of multi-dose flu shots. Often these

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