Amazon.com is one of the biggest success stories of the Internet. It was started by Jeff Bezos from a garage in Seattle, Washington in 1995 and is now the largest online retailer in the world. Bezos was Time magazines Person of the Year in 1999 for p

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 各大品牌英文介绍

Amazon Trends 亚马逊河流域 More than 1/3 of Earth's species -- and about 30% of the total living plants and animals on Earth -- live in the Amazon. Discover a noted scientist's perspective on the perils and promise of this region -- today on Earth a

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 (科普英语)Earth and Sky

Amazon wants to get more young people to consider becoming computer engineers. The American technology company this week launched a program that aims to teach more than 10 million students a year how to code. Amazon says it will pay for summer camps

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

The Qingdao-Amazon Web Service (AWS) Joint Innovation Center is the first of its kind in China. [Photo: enet.com.cn] Amazon's cloud-computing arm has launched a global joint innovation center in the coastal city of Qingdao, the first of its kind in C

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 2017CRI中国国际广播电台

Amazon GIS 亚马逊地理信息系统 In the Amazon, there's a growing human population in a region that also contains 30% of Earth's total plants and animals. Learn how scientists have put together an Internet window to the Amazon -- today on Earth and Sky

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(149) / 评论(0) 分类 (科普英语)Earth and Sky

Visitors to the Amazon rain forest in South America face different rules for how they can interact with wild animals. A new report issued by the animal rights group World Animal Protection says that animals suffer when they are kept in captivity so t

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(一)月

The American company Amazon.com is one of the biggest businesses in the United States and around the world. Now, the company is said to be negotiating with the government in Chile on a plan to reach for the stars. The Reuters news agency reports that

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(九)月

Amazon's Tool for Reading, One Word at a Time Last week Amazon announced Word Runner, a new tool for reading Kindle books. Word Runner is a software update that shows one word at a time, instead of words, sentences and paragraphs on one page. Amazon

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(九)月

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The retail giant Amazon is looking for a second home. And this could mean thousands of jobs and a new economic anchor for a city. Big cities like Denver and Atlanta are competing. But as we hear from Michigan Radio's Rick Pluta, l

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Next, we report on the downside of a bidding war for Amazon. Many cities are competing to be the chosen one, the site for a second Amazon headquarters and 50,000 promised jobs. At the same time, some politicians ask if cities are

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Amazon wants to find a home for a second headquarters. The Seattle-born company put out the word about two weeks ago and has set a deadline of mid-October. We'll find out who's in the running on this week's All Tech Considered. (SO

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台9月

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Online retail giant Amazon is working on a smartphone scheduled to be released in the fourth quarter of 2012, U.S. media reported Thursday. A note from Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney obtained by technology news site

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhuanet) -- A lost tribe has been spotted in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil, according to the media report Monday. The discovery was confirmed by National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) of Brazil, a government body overseeing indigen

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 (Xinhua) - Amazon's web-services disruption issues have not been completely resolved Friday morning, as some websites still in slow recovery. Amazon said in an update early Friday that meaningful progress has been made and is

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Jeff Bezos may run around Seattle, war paint daubed on his head, barking orders into his Fire Phone, urging employees to be nasty to each other. 杰夫贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)可能正铆足了劲在西雅图四处活动,为他家的Fire Phone大声吆喝

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(131) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Amazon on Monday launched its Kindle textbook rental service, which allows students to rent tens of thousands of textbooks, according to Los Angeles Times. The e-book textbook rental service will help students save as

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

1. Adonis /əˈdəunis/ -- very handsome young man Adonis是爱神Aphrodite所爱的英俊男子。阿多尼斯(Adonis)是希腊神话中掌管每年植物死而复生的一位非常俊美的神,身高(九尺)190cm以上,如花一般俊美精

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of Amazon's shiny new headquarters will be located in a part of New York City that has long struggled. It'll be just a few blocks away from Queensbridge Houses, which is the name of the largest public housing complex in North

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 2019年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Marina Santee. Voice 2 And Im Ryan Geertsma. 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 Martin Strel walks to the ed

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It was rolled out like a rose ceremony. Who would be chosen to marry Amazon? Every city tried to make themselves the most attractive. As we know, it didn't quite work out as planned. Activists and local politicians in New Y

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