Scientists Observe Most Distant Cosmic Explosion Ever Recorded 科学家们观察到有史以来最遥远的宇宙爆炸 Astronomers have detected the most distant explosion ever witnessed in the heav

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2005(下)--环境科学探索

I [the person speaking] I am glad to meet you. ice [frozen water] Would you like more ice in your drink? idea [(1) a thought or picture in the mind; (2) a belief] He liked your ideas for the party. (1) His ideas about religion are very strange. (2) i

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From NPR News in Washington,I am Jack Speer. Americans pausing to remember where they were 50 years ago today when the country lost a president.Speaking at a ceremony near the site where John F Kennedy,the nation's 35th president,was felled by an ass

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NASA Spacecraft, Dawn, Close to Reaching a 'Dwarf Planet' 美国黎明号航天器,接近矮行星 An American spacecraft is moving closer to a dwarf planet called Ceres. The American space agencys Dawn spacecraft is set to reach the planet-like obje

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今天我们要学的词是undercover。 Undercover, 是指秘密的,暗中进行的。An undercover operation, 就是一次秘密行动。最近,美国农业部宣布回收1亿4千3百万磅牛肉。An undercover video showed that cows too sick

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By Ernest Leong Washington 09 October 2007 Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean. That is how U.S. mystery writer Raymond Chandler once described the American detective. He took it for granted the investigator was a man. But m

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Male circumcision is the cutting off of a small amount of skin from the tip of the penis. In many parts of the world it is done when a baby is a few days old. However, in other parts of the world it is

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LOS ANGELES, April 8 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has discovered a rare asteroid that traces out a horseshoe shape relative to Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Friday. Unlike most near-Earth asteroid

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AS IT IS - Relations between Burma's ethnic Rohingyas and Rakhine Buddhists From VOA Learning English, welcometo AS IT IS! Hello, Im Steve Ember. Today we look at relations between Burmas ethnic Rohingyas and Rakhine Buddhists, which have been tense

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STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about an American spacecraft that has a date with a comet. We hear the latest about a Space Shuttle commander whose wife co

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Technology Report - Using the Brain to Move a Robotic Arm This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Cathy Hutchinson is a tetraplegic. She has not been able to move her arms, legs or speak since suffering a stroke nearly fifteen years ago. R

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Opposition parties in South Africa have gone to the courts to contest the dismissal of corruption charges against the head of the ruling party, Jacob Zuma. The development comes amid rising controversy over the dismissal which Zuma says proves his i

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NASA to Launch Black Hole Hunter Black holes have a gravitational pull so intense that not even light can escape from them. As gas, dust and stars are sucked in, the material accelerates and heats up, generating powerful X-ray light emissions. Only a

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NASA Probe Proves Einstein Right Albert Einstein was right. The U.S. Space Agency (NASA) released data this week from its Gravity Probe B spacecraft, whose primary mission while in Earth's orbit was to test Einstein's 1916 Theory of Relativity. While

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: It wasn't that long ago - right? - when we thought bookstores were dying. No more strolling bookshelves, chatting with staff about their favorite reads. Just go buy online - well, not so fast. Many independent bookstores, once thr

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Weve all heard the adage: monkey see, monkey do. But it is literally trueif a monkey sees you looking at something, it will look, too. Now, a study shows that this tendency for a monkey to track what another is looking at is age-dependent. And in a v

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Did the British and American governments routinely cover up information about UFOs? The answer appears to be yes to an extent, anyway. The Ministry of Defence has said that it will start releasing thousands of secret UFO documents it's held, for in

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JUDY WOODRUFF: We look at some of the details of today's findings with a longtime investigator. Peter Goelz is a former managing director of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. He oversaw the investigation, among others, of TWA Flight 800

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Even with all the VA clinics and hospitals, that $180 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, even with all those resources, the day-in-and-day-out care of disabled veterans often falls to their own family mem

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学习外语,能听懂笑话说明你的水平真的很高,因为要听懂笑话不仅要懂语言,还要理解它的背景,今天Jenny和Adam要和大家聊聊经典的英语笑话。 笑话英语怎么说? Jokes: 笑话 Classic jokes: 经典

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