The full moon triggers a frenzy of activity. 满月会引发一连串狂乱的事件 It is the time of the highest tides. 海水在此时达到满潮 And in the oceans the full moon's bright light 在海中,满月明亮的胧光 is a mating call fo

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(三)月

70% of Chinese millennials (the people born in the 1980s and 90s) are already home-owners, and more than 90% of those that haven't bought a home yet say they intend to do so in the next five years, a new survey by HSBC showed. 英国银行巨头汇丰的

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SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: In the days since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., there have been calls for more gun control from high school students around the country. There's a lot of polling that indicates young peo

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? At Antarcticas Blood Falls, the ice is stained red by ancient, iron-rich water pouring out of subglacial lakes formed millions of years ago. The cascading water is e

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(四)月

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Believe it or not, violence has been in decline for long stretches of time. And today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence. Harvard

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A federal appeals court is putting new restrictions on which parts of Alabama's strict new immigration law can't be enforced. NPR's Debbie Elliot reports on a mixed ruling today from the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeals court is temporar

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Raise your head on August 6 and gaze at the stars, you will find something romantic going on in the sky. VALENTINE'S Day in China, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, falls on August 6 this year. That is, on the evening, Niu Lang and Zhi Nv w

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Who Goes to a Rock Concert With Their Mother? Millennials! When musicians over the age of 50 are the star performers, you expect to see many baby boomers cheering them on. Aging rock music stars usually have baby boomer fans. Younger rock stars are m

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Applebee's announced this month that more than 130 of its restaurants will close by the end of the year. The reason - millennials. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The casual dining chain rebranded itself in the past few years as a modern ba

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Millennials are beginning to act more like their parents. This is the generation that was born after 1980. They came of age during the Great Recession. And now, as they grow older and have children, many are doing things like buyin

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Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank say they will continue to defy their government's order to freeze new construction for the next 10 months Luis Ramirez | Tekoa, West Bank 07 December 2009 Jewish settler Amitai Sharon in Tekai Israeli settle

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Dear Annie: Im in charge of a product development team at a Fortune 500 company, and right now the division head and I are setting a couple of big goals for 2015, especially regarding products we want to roll out by mid-year. I think our deadlines fo

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Why are dogs'noses so wet? 狗狗的鼻子为什么总是湿的? Humans and dogs share a special relationship, moulded over millennia of reciprocal love and companionship. 数千年来,人类和狗狗都有十分特殊的关系,相互喜爱,相

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CANBERRA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have made the alarming discovery that sea levels have risen more in the past century than at any other comparable period in the past 6,000 years. Researchers from the Australian National University

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Imagine going to the grocery store for dinner, not just to pick up a bag of corn chips and cheese dip for dinner and eat it at home, but actually eating in the supermarket. Many markets are adding sit-down restaurants. Kristofor Hu

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Most people feel guilty after gossiping about a friend or colleague. 多数人总会在聊完朋友或同事八卦后感到愧疚。 But scientists have found that crafty chats - dubbed gossip theory - are what makes us human, and may even help us li

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Five tips for coexisting with the office millennials. 同公司新千年一代和平共处的五个小方法 Treat young co-workers like individuals rather than representatives of their generation. 对待年轻同事就像对待个人一样而不是把

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It is dawn and the sun is rising 黎明,朝阳升起 as it has every day for the last 5 billion years. 五十亿年如一日 For millennia it has been a constant golden disk 千万年来,太阳一直有如一个金色圆盘般地 shining its unch

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Some large companies have made dramatic changes. 一些大型公司做出了巨大改变。 ConAgra, an American food giant, has simplified its recipes and eliminated all artificial ingredients from many of its snacks and ready meals. 美国食品巨头

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OLDER people are not the only ones to try too hard to be hip and youthful. Long-established firms can, too. 年长者并非唯一努力让自己看起来时髦年轻的人。老牌企业也会如此。 Just look at Procter Gamble (PG), one of the wor

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