While it takes two quarters of economic contraction for most economists to call a recession, one of those quarters is now in the record books. That follows an announcement from the Commerce Department today, the nation's Gross Domestic Product, the

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台十月

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Take a deep breath. Taste anything? Actually, your lungs may, because scientists have discovered that the same receptors that exist on the tongue to tast

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十)月

Hello again.Lesson Eight. [00:-1.00]First we're going to review auxiliary verbs. [00:-2.00]We'll begin with this sentence. [00:-3.00]I have to go.Listen and repeat that sentence slowly. [00:-4.00]I have to go.And now a little more quickly. [00:-5.00]

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 洪恩环境英语

Lesson 152 Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises Phonetics: Contraction, Liaison and Weak Form 1. A: Hello, Charles, I ____ ____ you all day. What ____ ____ ____ ____? B: Actually, ____ ____ working on my fir

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力入门 (全四册)

But there was always in Pre-Mackintosh days and early Mackintosh days, there was always Steven and John show. You two were kinda joined at the hip for a while there. 可是在Mackintosh时期,你俩总是一起出现在媒体上,几乎形影不离。

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 名人传记

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk with Pat O'Conner, co-author with her husband Stewart Kellerman of a new book called Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language. RS: But fir

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

A Healing Cuisine Chinese cuisine is widely known and enjoyed in all four corners of the world. Who could not confess to longing for a favorite Chinese dish? But there is one interesting concept conce

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英文阅读

Asthma by John Russell With World Health day on 7th April, this week we take a closer look at a very common health problem. Does your chest regularly feel tight? Do you find it difficult to breathe after light exercise? Do you sometimes make a wheezi

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(223) / 评论(0) 分类 英语音频杂志

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is troublesome contractions. Guest writer Bonnie Trenga writes, This episodes about contractions. Or would it be better to say, This episode is about contractions? While were in the neighborhood, well talk about some

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Today well be looking at two constructions that are correct, but which one you choose depends on your audience. In Which Versus Where The expressions that concern us today are which and where. Well be comparing sentences like these: This is the store

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Smart Farm Technology Tracks Behavior of Cows Artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived on the farm. A Dutch company has developed technology to follow the movements and activities of cows. The high-tech system, powered by AI and motion sensors, is ca

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(四)月

The government reports the nation's Gross Domestic Product fell one percent in the first quarter, a far slower contraction than the previous quarter when GDP shrank 6.4%. President Obama called it progress resulting from his administration's actions

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

U.S. job growth ground to a halt in August as government layoffs erased meager gains in the private sector. The Labor Department says American businesses added only 17,000 jobs last month, far short of the 100,000 jobs analysts were expecting. To mak

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we answer some listener questions. RS: Starting with this one from Rajpal Rawal in India, who sends us two sentences with questions about pronunciation -- more specifically, about

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

Okay, everyone, I'll let you know when to break out the cigars. 好了,大家,庆祝之时我会通知你们 And I know you got better things to do. Let's go. 先去干别的吧,走吧 No, Margaret, please, stay. 玛格丽特,别走 All right

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we answer some listener questions. RS: Starting with this one from Rajpal Rawal in India, who sends us two sentences with questions about pronunciation -- more specifically, about

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

The Eurozone economy shrank more than expected in 2013, falling two tenths of one percent between January and March. The new data means the 17-nation currency bloc has now been in recession for six consecutive quarters - longer even than the deep rec

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

China's business climate index falls in Q3 BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's business climate index, a major gauge of the country's macroeconomic outlook, continued to fall in the third quarter, according to a latest survey. The quarterly index dr

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(259) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Stock indexes in Europe and the United States fell sharply Tuesday as investors worried about the contraction of the economy in the 17-nation euro currency bloc and whether Greece can successfully eliminate a large portion of its debt. Markets in Lon

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

When two large, loaded Indian-men chance to crowd and crush towards each other in the docks, what do the sailors do? 当两个身材高大、喝醉了酒的印度群岛人偶然在码头上打起架来的时候,你想水手们是怎样办的? The

发表于:2019-03-10 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记