U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry sees exporting technologies like carbon capture utilization, so-called clean coal technology, to ensure American energy security. In an interview with VOA Contributor Greta Van Susteren, Perry called battery developme

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(九月)

我们的身体是微生物的家园和栖息地-某些对我们有益、某些对我们有害。当我们对这些邻居们了解更加深入之后,TED会员Jessica Green思索:我们是否能在建筑设计中创造出促进积极、有益的微

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投资女性可提振经济 It's no secret that the best way to jump-start a sluggish economy is to invest in women. That's because when women enter the formal economy, they invest their earnings into their families and their communities, pulling bot

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It has done me good,because of the color of the wheat fields.Go and look again at the roses.You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. 驯服对我是有好处的因为麦田的颜色。再回头看那些玫瑰花吧!到时你

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One of the concerns about working with genetically modified crops has been that vegetation growing in agricultural fields might escape out into the world. Now, for the first time in the U.S., researchers report a large population of GM crops beyond t

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This summer in Arkansas, a weed-killing chemical called dicamba drifted across the landscape and damaged millions of acres of crops. And the injury went deeper. It split rural communities. It destroyed friends and took a toll on th

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打榜热歌:Professor Green - I Need You Tonight 化名格林教授Professor Green的英国本土说唱歌手Stephen Manderson,与歌手Ed Drewett合作把80年代一首澳大利亚歌曲加说唱混音重新推出,歌名不变,还是I Need

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Precious Burden是瑞典歌手苏菲珊曼妮(Sophie Zelmani)同名专辑Precious Burden中的歌曲。这首歌的风格是Sophie Zelmani一贯的Indie Rock/Indie Pop,带着浓郁的Swedish色彩。 歌词 Precious Burden ------Sophie Zelmani

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Building a Windbreak to Protect Crops建设防风保护农作物 Welcome to As It Is, from VOA Learning English. Im Karen Leggett in Washington. Thanks for joining us. 欢迎光临,As It Is美国之音学英语。我是Karen Leggett在华盛顿。感

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Corn Harvest Comes Early for Midwest Farmers The only thing farmer Bruce Nation sees in his cornfields outside Taylorville, Illinois, is heartache. This stuff is depressing here. This is hard to look at for me, he said. Most of the ears of corn that

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Scientists Point to Possible Health Effects of Cell Phones This past May, in a major policy shift, the World Health Organization said electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones are possibly carcinogenic. Although the International Association f

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By Alan Boswell Nairobi 16 November 2009 A German human rights group reports an oil company in southern Sudan is contaminating drinking water. The group warns that if left unchecked the pollution could lead to an ecological catastrophe in one of the

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Seizure of Oilfields Fuels Kurd Statehood Dream LONDON Along the desert horizon around Kirkuk, the bright flares from oil wells puncture the summer haze. An estimated 4 percent of known global oil reserves lie beneath these sands. It is a prize that

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Many California Farmworkers Forced To Stay Behind During The Wildfires SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Woolsey Fire in Southern California has been contained, but it destroyed almost 1,500 structures across Los Angeles and Ventura counties. And while some res

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By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 03 November 2009 Raw diamonds (file photo) The so-called Kimberley Process, a joint international government, industry and civil society initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds, will decide at its annual

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By Nico Colombant Dakar 22 April 2008 Desertification is pushing further south in West Africa, crossing borders and creating devastating effects on local populations. One example where the desert is advancing is from Mauritania to northern Senegal. V

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By Jennifer Glasse London 09 November 2009 Red paper poppies are worn in recognition of Armistice Day Every year about this time, millions of people in Britain, wear red paper poppies in recognition of Armistice Day and in support of their country's

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今天我们要学的词是parity。Parity, 名词,意思是平等,公平。最近的一项研究发现,全球从政的女性比例太低,但是北欧国家例外。 A new report finds Nordic countries essentially enjoy gender parity in polit

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 11 December 2007 India's Cabinet minister for rural development faces demands for his dismissal after television news reports showed scenes of children working the fields on his family farm. VOA correspondent Steve Herman re

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Canada Geese Taking a Winter Staycation Over the last few decades, Canada geese have been wintering further and further north, which was interesting, because the winters have gotten a little more mild over the last few years, but still its pretty col

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