THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This weekend, I will join millions of Americans in one of our favorite national pastimes: fishing. I'm going to be on the Chesapeake Bay. For those who love fishing, the most important thing is not the size of your catch

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 美国总统电台演说

And now to our NewsHour Shares. Seawalls help to protect developed shorelines, but they can also destroy crucial habitat. One project in Washington state aims to fix that. Ken Christensen of KCTS' EarthFix explains. The Seattle waterfront is changing

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Bees Protect Crops from Wild Elephants in India People in Mayilattumpara, a village in southwest India, could not sleep at night. Because of habitat loss, wild elephants would enter their village to look for food, destroying crops and farmland. The v

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While at Ward's, he made some attempts to improve these rough and clumsy methods of taxidermy, 在沃德期间,他尝试提高这种粗糙,笨拙的剥制方法, but his methods for the most part were not used, because no one would then pay for

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As most places on China's Loess Plateau face the fierce cold of winter, Pinglu County in Shanxi Province is instead rather warm. Every November, thousands of wild swans arrive here from remote Siberia to escape the cold weather. Pinglu residents have

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So more than a third of different kinds of bees that once lived in this woodland have now disappeared. What's intriguing here is that their immediate habitat has barely changed.-But what do you think is causing that? If their habitat here is friendly

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According to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA, Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its minimum for the year at nearly 1.7 million square miles. A chilling fact, considering that this is only about 10 % more than the

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Habitat for Humanity builds houses for people who would not have the chance to own one any other way. Erika Santiestepan is a single mother of two young children. She helped a group of volunteers build her new home in Mishawaka, Indiana recently. I f

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With negotiators trying to hammer out a deal on climate change in Copenhagen, a sculptor in London is creating a piece of art to mirror the melting ice in the Arctic. His ice sculpture of a polar bear is designed to melt by the end of the Copenhagen

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Matthew: Hi, this is Matthew White. MB: And this is MB. Matthew: And we are talking about our experience with Habitat For Humanity and our trip to Papua New Guinea with a group of Japanese students. MB: Right. Matthew: MB, a lot of people ask, you kn

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Are We Endangered? Steve Jones is an environmental expert who tries to keep animals and plants from becoming endangered. We are not alone in the world. We human beings could not survive without all the plants and animals around us. We often talk abou

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Natures Nursery: Estuaries As the oceans are the source of life on earth, the estuaries are our planets nurseries. An estuary is the body of water where a river meets the ocean. Salt water from the ocean and fresh water from the river mix together in

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AS IT IS 2016-08-18 Photographer Hopes to Save Animals by Taking Pictures of Them 摄影师希望通过照片拯救动物 American photographer Joel Sartore is taking pictures of animals in his effort to save them. He calls the effort, Photo Ark. The

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Topics: US advertising in other countries; Habitat for Humanity; bad-tempered vs. short-tempered; no pun intended; to be raining cats and dogs Words: advertising campaign ill-mannered overseas markets hip nerdy direct comparison to brag to backfire h

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The fact that both horses and mammoths were here suggests these forests werent. It seems that, 14,000 years ago, Beringia was a huge expanse of open grassland. This unique habitat of cold, dry grasslands is known as mammoths steppe. But thats not how

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今天我们要学的词是reminder。 Reminder, 提醒、提示。 I received a flu shot reminder from my doctor's office, 我收到医生诊所的通知,提醒我去打流感预防针。 The newly released data is a reminder that the recovery of

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今天我们要学的词是waive。 Waive, 是放弃权利的意思。维吉尼亚州向去年维吉尼亚理工大学枪击事件的遇难者家庭提出了补偿方案。The families will have to waive their right to sue in exchange for $100,000 ap

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Zoologists have found a habitat in western Chinas Qinghai Province with the greatest density of snow leopards in the country. Zoologists have spotted a habitat with the greatest density of snow leopards in the entire country, located in western China

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Matthew: Hi, this is Matthew White. MB: And this is MB. Matthew: And we are talking about our experience with Habitat For Humanity and our trip to Papua New Guinea with a group of Japanese students. MB: Right. Matthew: MB, a lot of people ask, you kn

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