Mystery Guest JONATHAN COULTON: This is ASK ME ANOTHER, NPR's hour of puzzles, word games and trivia. I'm Jonathan Coulton here with puzzle guru Art Chung. Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg. OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Thank you, Jonathan. This week

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

What Happens In The Brain Of An Extreme Procrastinator? GUY RAZ, HOST: So for all of Adam Grant's research about procrastination and slowing down, there is a right way to do it and a wrong way. Can you introduce yourself please, Tim? TIM URBAN: Yeah.

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Can Slowing Down Help You Be More Creative? GUY RAZ, HOST: On the show today, we're talking about slowing down. And this... ADAM GRANT: I can go as slowly as you want. RAZ: ...Is Adam Grant. GRANT: A Wharton professor of management and psychology and

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To All The Ghouls I've Loved Before play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0005:22repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. OPHIRA EISENBERG, HO

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Opening Credits play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0012:29repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: From NPR and WNY

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Typhoon Rammasun, the strongest typhoon to hit Chinas southern region in decades, has wreaked havoc in Guandong Province, causing a great deal of damage. When the typhoon finally left Guangdong, it was clean up time for local residents and armed forc

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On Mondays and Thursdays, I learn how to die. I call them my terminal days. My wife Fernanda doesn't like the term, but a lot of people in my family died of melanoma cancer and my parents and grandparents had it. And I kept thinking, one day I could

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

The Director went suddenly pale, stopped struggling and stood, his hands on her wrists, staring down at her, horrified. 主任的脸色突然苍白了,停止了挣扎,站在那儿,双手握住琳妲的手腕,低头盯视着她,吓坏了。

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Everything I do, and everything I do professionally -- my life -- has been shaped by seven years of work as a young man in Africa. From 1971 to 1977 -- I look young, but I'm not (Laughter) -- I worked in Zambia, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Somalia,

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脱口秀演员Sarah Jones莎拉琼斯 在TED现场来了段精彩的单口秀,她惟妙惟肖地模仿了八国人说英语,惊为天人。里面包括了英式口音、美式口音、印度口音、法国口音、中式口音、阿拉伯口音、

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Einstein, the African grey parrot, has a vocabulary of more than 200 words and sounds; she can perform nearly half on cue. Why you should listen to him: Einstein, the African grey parrot, squawked to fame after a winning performance on the Animal P

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Frente,一支来自澳洲的组合,主唱Angie Hart漂亮的清唱.Angie Hart的声音非常稚气,听她的歌声,就像一个13、14岁的小孩的低吟,带给我们一种平静而又倔强的感觉.《滚石》杂志称为颠覆传统

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Help Me, Google OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: All right, let's check in with our contestants. Jake, what is the most embarrassing thing you've ever had to Google? JAKE TOFFLER: Well, last night, actually, after I ate some pork, I googled what undercooked p

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Finally Baelish drew rein in front of a ramshackle building, three stories, timbered, its windows bright with lamplight in the gathering dusk. 最后贝里席在一栋看起来摇摇欲坠的三层木造建筑前停了下来。窗户透出灯光,在逐

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How can I just let you walk away, just let you leave without a trace When I stand here taking every breath with you, ooh You're the only one who really knew me at all How can you just walk away from me, when all I can do is watch you leave Cos we've

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Brockmire is back. Jim Brockmire, the beloved old voice of the Kansas City Royals baseball team, who became one of the first Internet sensations 10 years ago when he shared the shock of a profound personal embarrassment without dro

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(151) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

ALLISON AUBREY, HOST: You are committed to exercise. You've dusted off the gym shoes. You are going to bridge that divide between thinking about it and actually doing it regularly - oops, but that was Monday - and Tuesday. Ooh, Wednesday's slipping b

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Adam Navis. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 How does this sound make you feel? D

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 环球英语 Spotlight

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: It's like a french fry that you make out of Play Doh. Plastic surgery fries. It's had a little cosmetic surgery. 这个像用培乐多黏土做的薯条,整形薯条,这有经过美容手术。

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Do one nice thing for yourself every day. Put yourself at the top of your priority list. There is no person on earth who deserves your kindness and attention more than you.When you love yourself first, everything else falls into place. So treat yours

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