1. Fourteen US troops have been killed in eastern and southern Afghanistan in the past three days. They include seven American service members who were killed today in two separate roadside bomb attacks. 2. Hurricane Earl is getting stronger, it's he

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2010(九月)

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study has found that a fat cell gene may reduce the risk of colon cancer in some people. The study provides what scientists say is the first evidence of a genetic link between a fat cell gene and

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Eat Nuts to Stay Healthy 吃坚果有助保持健康 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. People have long known that nuts are part of a healthy diet. However, scientists in the Netherlands recently found that you do not ne

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(七)月

What Bathroom Should Transgender People Use? 变性人应该使用男浴室还是女浴室? The latest issue dividing Americans is about public bathrooms. At issue is what bathroom -- mens or womens transgender people should use. Transgender people a

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Sooner or later, almost everyone who travels by airfrom occasional passengers to professional pilotsis affected by jet lag. One research study reported that as many as 94 percent of all long-distance fliers experience some form of jet lag. 从偶尔坐

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The hypothalamus, the master controller of your hormones, releases something called corticotropin-releasing hormone. 下视丘是控制荷尔蒙的主宰,它会释放一种叫促肾上腺皮质释放素的物质。 This triggers the pituitary gland

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

HEALTH REPORT - Dealing With Children's Bed-WettingBy Caty Weaver Broadcast: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Sleeping child Many parents wish children were

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年慢速英语(十二)月

The body's internal clock helps to regulate a water-storing hormone so that nightly dehydration or trips to the toilet are not the norm, research suggests. In an article published in Nature Neuroscience today, neurophysiologists Eric Trudel and Charl

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

喜怒无常?情绪低落?失眠健忘?别以为只有女性有更年期,男人也同样有更年期的烦恼。 Andropause also colloquially known as male menopause is said to be the result of a gradual drop in testosterone, which is an androgen.

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

What can I learn/know right now in 10 minutes that will be useful for the rest of my life? 有什么是我可以在10分钟之内学会或了解并且对我之后的生活非常有用的? 获得4.6k好评的答案@Cyndi Perlman Fink 能够快速掌握

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Stressful situations are sometimes inevitable. Each of us perceives challenges in their own way and reaction to them also varies. How stressful our life is depends not only on us. Other people influence it as well, and this is something we cannot cha

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1. SLEEP NAKED 1.裸睡 As well heating you up too much, pyjamas can also be a distraction with tangled drawstrings, bunched-up bottoms and constrictive t-shirts. Maintaining a cool body temperature allows anti-ageing hormone Melatonin to do its work

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

More than half of all women are concerned about excess body hair, according to a report published by market research company Mintel last month. In the online survey of more than 2,000 women, excess hair was rated just behind weight gain for bodydissa

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

A study found that people who sleep less tend to be fat, and experts said its time find if more sleep will fight obesity. Weve put so much emphasis on diet and exercise that weve failed to recognize the value of good sleep, said Fred Turek, a physici

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

If you are looking for a loan, serving your bank manager breakfast might just do the trick. 如果你准备申请贷款,不妨为银行经理准备早餐,问题即可迎刃而解。 A compound found in eggs makes people much more generous, new re

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(438) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Okay. 好了 So what is the daf-2 gene? 那么daf-2基因到底是什么? Well as you know, genes, which are part of the DNA, 正如大家所知,基因是DNA的一部分 they're instructions to make a protein that does something. 它们是经编码

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

So how can a hormone ultimately affect the rate of aging? 那么,激素到底是怎样影响衰老的速度呢? How could that work? 原理是什么呢? Well it turns out that in the daf-2 mutants, 原来在daf-2变异体中 a whole lot of gene

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Have you suffered from getting up? Are you a morning person? Well, Want to feel great and rejuvenated about life? After reading this post, you will know exactly how I (and many night owls) trained ourselves to wake up early, and also how your morning

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While you are basking in the glow 当你沉浸在你第一次 of having won your first massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling game, 赢得超级多人拇指摔跤比赛胜利的光荣中时 let's do a quick recap on the positive emotions. 我们来说说

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

Be Happy 开心起来 Soak up some sun 晒晒太阳 Not only will you look radiant as your skin takes in sun rays, but you will literally be increasing the happy hormone aka Seroton in levels in your body. 晒太阳不仅能让你看起来容光焕发,

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