Technology Report - Could Waste Plastic Reduce Our Need for Oil? 科技报道 - 塑料制油技术是否可以减少美国的石油需求 From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技

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1. similarity /ˌsɪməˈlrɪti:/ -- likeness; resemblance The two pills are alike in color and shape, but there the similarity ends. 这两颗药丸的颜色和形状都很相像,但相似处也仅限于此。 2. simile /ˈsɪməli:/ -- comparison

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: What do you call a lawsuit that appears to be intended to suppress public speech? RS: To critics it's a SLAPP -- a strategic lawsuit against public participation. University of De

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1. impunity /ɪmˈpju:nɪti:/ -- state of being not punished; freedom from punishment, harm, loss, etc. As a reult of stricter enforcement, speeders are no longer able to break the law with impunity. 由于更为严格的执法力度,超速者再也不

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Imagine a baby alone in the woods, how would he eat? Where would he sleep? As humans, we come into this world completely helpless. Mostly, we just know how to breathe and cry. Animals, on the other hand, stagger to their feet within minutes of birth,

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EXPLORATIONS - April 10, 2002: Wiley Post By Paul Thompson Anncr: Now the VOA Special English program, explorations. Today Shirley Griffith and Doug Johnson tell about pilot Wiley Post. He set new rec

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Anil Gupta 在发展中国家内寻觅着那些不知名的发明家们--那些本地的被贫困所掩盖的天才企业家,他们的能力可以改变很多人的生活。他展示了小蜜蜂网络(Honeybee Network)是怎么帮助这些人去建

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The last hidden world---China. For centuries, travelers to China have told tales of magical landscapes and surprising creatures. Chinese civilization is the worlds oldest. And today, its largest, with well over a billion people. Its home to more than

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It has transformed the landscape. Late winter in southern Yunnan is a busy time for local farmers as they prepare the age-old paddy fields ready for the coming spring. These hill slopes of Yunyang county plunge nearly 2,000 meters to the floor of the

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绝不平凡!这对Avril Lavigne而言已经算是温和的形容词了。她是一个引领流行文化的女子、一个爆发力十足的灵魂,一个狂野不羁的女孩。她是那种大约两岁左右,就能够以声音引起人们激赏的怪胎。她是那种没办法乖乖坐在课堂上,但是却充满了自信和决心,并且一个人跑到纽

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The cave rivers course is channeled by the beds of limestone. A weakness in the rock can allow the river to increase its gradient to flow in, providing a real challenge for the cave explorers. The downward rushes halted when the water table is reache

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If catching fish in the dark is impressive, imagine eating a slippery minnow with no hands while hanging upside down. Dawn, over the karst hills of Guilin. These remarkable hills owe their peculiar shapes to the mildly acid waters of the Li River, wh

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Ailaoshan is of the Hani tribe from the mountain village of Mengsong. Roasted, the tender shoots he gathers will make a tasty dish. The Hani have many uses for the different bamboos they grow and find in the forest around. Though flexible enough to b

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The mystery is that these forests are growing well outside the tropics. By rights, none of this jungle or its animals should be here. These are bear macaques. They're found only in tropical and subtropical jungle. With a tiny home range of just a few

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Beneath billowing clouds in Chinas far southwestern Yunnan Province lies a place of mystery and legend. Of mighty rivers and some of the oldest jungles in the world, here hidden valleys nurture strange and unique creatures, and colorful tribal cultur

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In glorious color, he recorded the plant life he found on special photographic glass plates. Sending thousands of specimens back to the West, the plant hunters changed the gardens of the world forever. Rocks success was born of a massive effort, for

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But it does share the giant panda's taste for bamboo. Southwest China's red pandas are known for their very strong facial markings, which distinguish them from red pandas found anywhere else in the Himalayas. Like the monkeys, they were isolated in t

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The unfortunate thing is every single person, with the exception of my closest friend, Gale, said to me you are not gonna make it. Everybody told me that I wasn't gonna make it. Those same people now are saying, no, we never, we always knew. But that

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The Jinuo people are incredibly knowledgeable about their forests, and claim to have uses for most of the plants that they find there. They have names for them all, those good for eating, and some which even have strong medicinal qualities. By workin

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But the visitors are not what they seem. Zhe Shuzheng and her son live nearby. Zhe has been caring for her local alligators for over 20 years, so she had a fair idea when the eggs were likely to hatch. Back home, she's built a pond, surrounded by net

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