Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. On this program we talk about common expressions and phrases in American English. Today, grab your poles and bait. We are going fishing! Fishing is a popular outdoor activity you can do i

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(258) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(八)月

Idiom: On the table 所想的条款等讲得清楚明白 Hit the book: Laboratory Carry out Outstanding Expedition Solo walk Nickname Insect Scholarship Botany Enroll

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IceFest is a festival about Antarctica. Antarctica is often called The Ice; for example Dave Dobbyn visited the Ice two years ago. IceFest is a month-long festival, from September 14th to October 14th which includes the school holidays. It is in Hagl

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

DAMASCUS, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- The national archeological expedition recently discovered a gigantic building built with large-size hewn stones that date back to the Roman era, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said Wednesday. The building, the thickness

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

QA: Tales from the Lewis and Clark Expedition 问答:刘易斯和克拉克探险队的故事 ANNA: Hello and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. ANNA: Im Anna Matteo in Washington, DC. And today we bring you a live QA for our listeners. Fo

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BBC Learning English Weekender Polar Explorer Amber: Hello, I'm Amber, and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Weekender today, we listen to an interview with explorer, Rosie Stancer. In March, Rosie sets off on her latest expedition walki

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 Weekender

Some of these mountains in northern Mozambique have never been studied by scientists until now. The British government funded Darwin Initiative has sponsored a series of expeditions to five northern Mozambique(莫桑比克) mountains. Scientists have

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2009年

So in the oasis of intelligentsia that is TED, I stand here before you this evening as an expert in dragging heavy stuff around cold places. I've been leading polar expeditions for most of my adult life, and last month, my teammate Tarka L'Herpiniere

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

Do you know what centenary means? It means the 100-year anniversary of something. This week is the centenary of the arrival at the South Pole of the first British explorers , led by Captain Robert Scott. The English word Arctic means the area of the

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PART II THE SIZE OF THE EARTH 第二部分 地球的大小 Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; 大自然和大自然的法则藏匿于黑夜之中; God said, Let Newton be! And all was light. 上帝说,让牛顿出世吧!于是世界一片

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BBC Learning English People and Places The Lipstick Blondes Amber:Hello, Im Amber and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com In People and Places today, we meet a ski mountaineer and she defines the term for us! And she takes us to an extremely h

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A Nepalese mountaineer who has climbed Mount Everest more times than any other climber, is leading a new expedition to clean up trash left behind on the world's tallest peak. The Sherpa named Apa and a team of climbers and guides left for Everest Wed

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The journey of the USS Jeannette in 1879 came out of the dreams of a lot of wise men who might have known better. It set sail from San Francisco in July of that year with 32 men to find what they hoped would be a kind of unspoiled

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

First listen to the previous item: Journey to the South Pole. Tomorrow an exhibition called Scotts Last Expedition opens in London, in the Museum of Natural History. Captain Scott and the four men who went to the South Pole with him, died on their re

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REYKJAVIK, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- China will launch its first international Arctic cooperation and research institute in Shanghai, sources attending a Sino-Iceland workshop told reporters here. The workshop on Arctic studies was held Friday as part of t

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Americans are worse at spelling than Britons, with more than half unable to spell embarrassed, liaison and millennium。 美国人在拼写单词方面不如英国人,超过一半的美国人不会拼embarrassed、liaison和millennium。 Despite th

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Todd: Hey, Ian, have you ever met anyone famous? 托德:嗨,伊恩,你见过名人吗? Ian: Anyone famous? Ah, yes, I have. I met the Duke of Edinburgh. 伊恩:名人?嗯,我见过。我见过爱丁堡公爵。 Todd: Mm, who's that? 托德

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讲解文本: cold feet 胆怯,打退堂鼓,信心或勇气的丧失 He planned to talk to Mary, but then he got cold feet. 他本打算去跟Mary说话,但后来临阵退缩了。 This is not the time to get cold feet. Let's do it! 现在不是

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Ian: Hey, Ian, have you ever met anyone famous? Todd: Anyone famous? Ah, yes, I have. I met the Duke of Edinburgh. Ian: Mm, who's that? Todd: He is the Queen's husband and I met him at Buckingham Palace. Ian: How did that happen? Todd: Well, it was b

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Explanation: Before there were cars or very good railroads, which are special roads for trains, most transportation in the United States relied on (or used) rivers. Using boats on rivers was the fastest way to move people and goods (or products, like

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