What is a creepy crawly? Well, it isnt easy to give a straight definition so Ill tell you a couple of stories to try to explain. A few years ago I was on holiday in Holland. I was on a bicycle trip and at the very first sign of a hill, I got off my b

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 英语科技新闻

Now the weekly VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Surviving Adverse Seasons. It was written by Barry Targan. Here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. Abel Halleck was 59 years old when his wife Estelle died. Her

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 弗兰肯斯坦.Frankenstein

AMERICAN MOSAIC - New York Museum Show Just Crawling with Spiders Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. On our show this week, we tell play a few songs from new albums by Green Day, Mumford Sons and Lupe Fiasco. We also te

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年VOA慢速英语(九)月

A Laboratory Turns Deadly Insect Venom into Medicine 实验室将致命毒虫液转换为药物 To most of us, medicine comes from a drugstore. But originally, much of the medicine developed in the last century came from natural sources: plants, bact

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(八)月

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: At the University of Wisconsin, some students are blending art and science to create hotels that might save disappearing insects. Susan Bence of member station WUWM explains. SUSAN BENCE, BYLINE: Every year, lecturer Katie Martin-M

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

Ladybugs love to snack and feast on other pests, so people began importing in Asian species called hollyqueen ladybugs as natural pest control. But in their new environments the hollyqueens wiped out native ladybugs and they have their parasites to t

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(五)月

文本: The next stage, as you see here, is the second bouncing belt. This bouncing belt has holes that are small enough to let the leaf carry on going up, but large enough to let insects fall through.

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 跟着英剧练发音

Insects And Climate Change Its well known that big animals, like polar bears, are vulnerable to climate change. The Earth warms, polar ice melts, and the bears are out of luck. The same goes for tigers, sea lions, elephants. As the globe heats up and

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Roaches And Junk Food Cockroaches are famousor maybe infamousfor being the ultimate survivors. They can live anywhere, eat anything. But just like people, roaches on a junk food diet dont fare well. According to one study, even cockroaches get fat an

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Pre-Listening Vocabulary caffeine: a drug found in some plants, including coffee seeds and tea leaves pesticide: a substance that keeps insects or harmful materials away from a plant alert: awake and paying attention ward off: to keep away something

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 趣谈英语

Plant Signals 植物的语言 Can plants smell and taste in the same way that animals do? Can they talk to each other and to insects? Learn how scientists hope to unravel some of the mysteries of plant senses -- on today's Earth and Sky. JB: This is Eart

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 (科普英语)Earth and Sky

A caterpillar's guts move forward first, followed by its outer body, according to x-ray studies of the insects walking on a treadmill. Imagine if before you took each step, your guts lurched up into your throat. Well, caterpillars dont have to imagin

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 60秒科学

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Airtight plastic bags can help farmers protect their harvests without the use of harmful chemicals. These bags are designed to keep air out of crops

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(二)月

BARBARA KLEIN: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember. Today we tell about the beauty and science of orchids, some of natures most interesting flowers. Orchids at the U.S. Botanic Garden

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年VOA慢速英语(四)月

AS IT IS 2016-08-02 Smelly 'Corpse' Flower To Bloom in Washington, DC 尸臭魔芋花在华盛顿植物园盛开 This is What's Trending Today: A rare flower, called the titan arum, is about to blossom at the U.S. Botanic Garden. Unlike most flowers

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Most people try to keep insects out of their kitchens. But many of the creepy-crawlers are edible and quite nutritious. That is, if you can get past the idea of eating something usually considered a pest. In Laos, that is not a problem, since nearly

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(七)月

A: I want to change rooms. In fact, I want a refund for tonight! B: If you tell me the exact problem, I can be more helpful. A: Cockroaches have declared war on my room! B: Allow me to apologize. I'll give you another room right now, and a full refun

发表于:2019-01-15 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语情景对话-旅馆

Paul: One interesting thing for me is that, you know, over the recent years, we've had countless incidents where cattle and animal stock have become diseased, and they've had to be culled, you know; they've had to be killed to stop the disease. I thi

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英语趣味课堂

Todd: I thought we would talk about insects. So, I warned you when you guys came over to this place that my apartment has cockroaches, spiders, and centipedes. Katia: Centipedes. It's my only problem. Todd: Really! Centipedes. Why? Because they look

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight. Im Joshua Leo. Voice 2 And Im David Bast. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 In the ea

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 环球英语 Spotlight