absurd 荒唐的 attitude 态度 behavior 行动,举止 combative 好斗的 competitive 竞争性的 contest 比赛 cricket 板球 deduce 推断 disgrace 使丢脸 frankly 坦白地 fury 狂怒 goodwill 友好 inclination 意愿 involve 卷入 mimi

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语第四册单词MP3

Climate-Controlled Time Machine Tests Prairie Future Researchers from the University of Oregon have set up a kind of time machine to test how a warmer climate might affect grasslands and prairies around the world. Today, grasslands cover between 25 a

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Lesson 7 The sporting spirit 运动精神 I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no

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Honeybee stings are painful. But they're also fragrant. If a beekeeper gets stung by bees, it smells like banana. Dr. Stefan D?tterl, a plant ecologist at the University of Salzburg in Austria. That banana scent, he says, is a compound called isoamyl

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That is prescal child beating a drum in sequence an adult drummer. Here is the prescaler who cannot find the rhythm. Researchers find that the first child who can match the drum beats is more likely to have better early language skills and reading po

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This is What's Trending Today... 这里是《今日热点》节目。 Wikie is a 14-year-old whale living in captivity in France. 薇姬(Wikie)是一头14岁的鲸鱼,现圈养在法国。 Wikie is an orca. Orcas are extremely smart, making the

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TECHNOLOGY REPORT - FTC Takes on Computer Scareware Scammers 科技报道 - 美国联邦贸易委员会剑指电脑恐吓软件骗子 From VOA Learning English, this is the TECHNOLOGY REPORT in Special English. 现在是美国之音慢速英语科技报

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 11 January 2008 Kenya's political opposition says mediation efforts with the government over Kenya's flawed December elections have collapsed and the opposition is now calling for mass rallies across the country next week. Nic

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Soccer Helps Haiti Earthquake Amputees Heal At times, it doesn't look like a regular soccer field. It is someone's desperate home. It is not a manicured pitch - cattle sometimes saunter by - but the players are not regular soccer players, either. The

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US Surgeon General Says More Needed to Curb Teen Smoking The report is a tome - nearly 900 pages long. Its focus is on how to prevent tobacco use among teenagers and young adults. Smoking among teens up While the overall rate of tobacco use has drast

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Antibiotic Alternative Treats Urinary Infection in Mice Researchers have a new approach for treating urinary tract infections, a painful condition which can often be treated successfully with antibiotics. But many times, the infection is caused by st

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Doctors Achieve Milestone Using Artificial Heart With No Beat In March, two doctors at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston achieved what medical experts call a major milestone by implanting a continuous-flow artificial heart in a human patient. The

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Nanostructure Promotes Blood Vessel Growth U.S. researchers have developed a new way to promote the growth of blood vessels which potentially could improve treatment in diabetes, organ transplants, stroke, and heart attack. The veins and arteries tha

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Robots Not Ready for Homes, But Getting Closer 尚未做好让机器人进入家庭的准备,但是越来越近了! Robots are not ready to take their place in our homes. But they are getting better at working closely with humans in industrial settin

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Researchers Develop Artificial Legs That Mimic Real Ones 研究人员开发拟真人腿 When we walk, most of us don't give the process a second thought. Tiny electrical signals contract the leg muscles to help the joints move. All of it is controlle

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The movie The Shape Of Water is up for 13 Oscars, the most of any film this year. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE SHAPE OF WATER) RICHARD JENKINS: (As Giles) A tale of love and loss and the monster who tried to destroy it all. SHAPIRO: Cre

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By VOA News 20 November 2007 Two separate teams of scientists say they have transformed ordinary human skin cells into ones that look and act like embryonic stem cells. Laboratory teams at universities in the United States and Japan Tuesday announced

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Rev Up Photosynthesis To Boost Crop Yields 提高光合作用能使作物增加产量 Photosynthesis is surprisingly inefficient, only of the order of one to two percent. And one of the main culprits is an enzyme called RuBisCo. 光合作用效率低得

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Mom's Genes Make Some Giraffes Hard to Spot Just like humans have virtually unique sets of fingerprints, every giraffehas a unique set of spots. Not that those spot patterns really help wildlife biologists identify their study subjects in real time.

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Nice Set of Pipes 尽管管风琴对我们来说还是比较生疏的乐器,但它的发音原理与我国民间流传至今仍在使用的古老乐器芦笙十分近似。据史料记载,公元前250年前古希腊工程师克提西比奥(Ktes

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