Net Aroma: E-mail tries out a sense of smell You could soon be able to spice up your e-mails with your favourite perfume. UK net provider Telewest Broadband is testing a system to let people to send aromatic e-mails over the internet. It has develope

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 四级晨读英语美文

Lesson one ancestor 祖先 anthropologist 人类学家 flint 燧石 fossil 化石 fossil man 化石人 Indonesia 印度尼西亚 legend 传说 migration 迁移, 移居 Polynesian 波利尼西亚 recount 叙述 rot 烂掉 saga 英雄故事 trace 踪迹

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语第四册单词MP3

Retailers Prepare for Aging Baby Boomers The first group of so-called baby boomers, Americans born after World War II, turns 65 this year. Within the next 10 years, the number of Americans over 65 is expected to jump almost 30 percent. That has U.S.

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(六月)

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: People are dumping dead bodies in the high desert of western Colorado. But they're scientists not criminal masterminds. NPR's Rae Ellen Bichell takes us to a place for forensic research in Grand Junction, Colo. And a caution over b

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

Many people remember the colors of the rainbow by the acronym ROY G. BIV. For red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Well, the color indigo just made news. Indigo gets its name from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and its relatives, whic

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年Scientific American(九)月

Naked skin or effectively naded skin has been the primary interface between the human body and the environment for over 200,000 years. Penn State anthropologist Nina Jablonski on the evolution of human skin pigmentation at the annual meeting of the A

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A lot of people have had impacted third molars. Third molars produce a lot of chronic pain. Alan Mann, a Prinston University physical anthropologist at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on Februar

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This is Scientific America 60-second science, I'm Sophie Bushvick, got a minute? All humans evolve to find certain female traits attractive across cultures because the signal of potential means reproductive potential. Right? Actually a new study find

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Some scientists say that the use of fire helps to make us the modern humans it dramatically changed what and how we eat or may have even altered our enemy. But the University of Utah anthropologist Polly Wisner thinks that the fire is also important

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If you didnt have to work to make a living,then what would you like to do? What would you fancy doing to make a living?If money wasnt a problem, family responsibilities or education, if you could set all that to one side.Then what would you really li

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: a big week for talkers and listeners. RS: This Thursday, millions of Americans will gather with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving -- or Turkey Day, as many call it. Tha

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Dian Fossey was an American zoologist who studied gorillas in Africa. Her research and life in the mountain forests of Rwanda made her famous. She wrote a book about her work, Gorillas in the Mist. A major Hollywood studio paid her a million dollars

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 各国名人英文介绍

Israeli Society Facing Religious Extremism, Backlash For some time now, Israeli women have been protesting against what they see as efforts by some ultra-Orthodox Jews to exclude them from public spaces. Ultra-Orthodox Jews counter it is they who are

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(一月)

Environment May Affect Development of Language There are about 7,000 languages in the world, and they are constantly evolving and changing. But it's a bit of a mystery why languages change the way they do. Anthropologist Caleb Everett of the Universi

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(七月)

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now to some economic news. South Korea's economy has been thought of as an Asian tiger with high growth and productivity. But momentum there has slowed, and these days, unemployment is at its highest level in 17 years.

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today we begin a new series with our friends The Kitchen Sisters, producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson - stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians, keepers of the

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(40) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台9月

The human voice is capable of forming a plethora of incredibly different sounds. So many, in fact, that each individual language contains only a subset of potential sound units or phonemes. What factors determine whether a phoneme enters coming in us

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Broadcast on Coast to Coast: October 3, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: October 6, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- The Wordtree. It's a reverse dictionary that, through a series of branchings, takes you

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Topics: Celebrity chefs, Americans and personal space, generic versus general, expressing height in feet and meters, prophecy versus prediction Words: chef cookbook recipe to master column to spoof to kick it up a notch fusion anthropologist intimate

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Section 1: Today I'm going to talk about work. And the question I want to ask and answer is this: Why do we work? Why do we drag ourselves out of bed every morning instead of living our lives just filled with bouncing from one TED-like adventure to a

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