Making Bamboo a Common Building Material 竹子是一种常见的建筑材料 Bamboo is one of the worlds most useful plants. For thousands of years bamboo has been used in many different ways -- from food to medicine to clothing and, in small ways,

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(227) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(七)月

Speaking in 65 different languages from the central balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica, Pope Benedict offeres a blessing of peace and joy for the holiday. Sabina Castelfranco | Rome 25 December 2009 Photo: AP Pope Benedict XVI gestures to the faithful

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Native Bees May Help Save Crops 本地蜜蜂可能帮助拯救农作物 BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND In June, U.S. President Barack Obama called for a federal strategy to promote the health of bees and other pollinators that have been declining. The honeybee

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BBC Learning English London Life The Great Fire of London Callum:Hello, I'm Callum Robertson and this is London Life. I'm not in the comfort of the studio today, as you might be able to hear, I'm out and about in London. To be exact I'm in a street

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For all the trouble they take to assemble and preserve themselves, species crumple and die remarkably routinely. 尽管物种们费了九牛二虎之力聚集起来保存自己,但它们经常崩溃和死亡。 And the more complex they get, the mo

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So competition was fierce. 于是,竞争很激烈。 There was also an omnivorous and unsettling new type of predator on the scene, 而且,出现了一种新的无所不吃的、令人不安的捕食者。 one so perfectly designed for attack tha

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This motivated scientists from Mexico, Spain and England to study the luminance in Van Gogh's paintings in detail. 促使墨西哥、西班牙和英国的科学家开始研究梵高画作裡的颜色亮度。 They discovered that there is a distinct

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Despite their extraordinary achievements, none of these women have made it into our narrative of the First Intifada. 尽管有这些非凡的成就,没有一个女人进入了我们关于大起义的描述中 We do this in other parts of the globe,

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Chapter 10 The day passed much as the day before had done. Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid, who continued, though slowly, to mend; and in the evening Elizabeth joined

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Beijing is to establish an air emergency medical service network by the end of the year. As well as that Beijing Red Cross 999 Emergency Center is planning to launch the first air rescue insurance by year end. It is hoped it will help cut service exp

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Part 2. The road to success. A. Keywords. successful, bring up children, overcome difficulty, deaf, headmistress, actor, self-publicist. Vocabulary. pop, arthritis, headmistress, handicap, self-publicist. A1. Listen to four people taking about the mo

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Broadcast on Coast to Coast: December 12, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: Just in time for those unattainable New Year's resolutions, the art -- and danger -- of making excuses. SCHLENKER: What excuses do i

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Take the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6. Spend 20 seconds memorizing that sequence before saying them out loud again. 看看下面的数字:4、8、5、3、9、7、6,将它们大声读出来,然后背过脸去,用20秒来仔细回

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Why do you read so much? 你读那么多书干嘛? Tyrion looked up at the sound of the voice. Jon Snow was standing a few feet away, regarding him curiously. 提利昂闻言抬头,琼恩雪诺正站在几步以外,好奇地端详他。 He clos

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For the first time, scientists have identified two clusters of genes directly linked to human intelligence. 科学家们首次发现,大脑中存在两个与人类智力直接相关的基因集群。 Called M1 and M3, these so-called 'gene networks

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You can't hurry love and that's certainly the case with Edinbuigh Giant Pandas . Despite showing all the right signs of love , it seems patter of tiny panda paws is just not meant to be for Tiantian and Yangguang this time around. Yangguang comes fro

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BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- A short-term memory loss may suggest the Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study made by Spanish researchers. The finding was published on Monday, in Archives of General Psychiatry, an American Medical Associatio

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The fact is, we don't really know a great deal about the dinosaurs. 实际情况是,我们其实对恐龙了解不多。 For the whole of the Age of Dinosaurs, fewer than a thousand species have been identified (almost half of them known from a sin

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: reduced forms in spoken American English. RS: We're talking about forms like whaddaya -- meaning what do you, as in whaddaya say? Whaddaya Say? is also the title of a popular teac

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Scientists say that dung beetles have developed a complex method of navigation that relies on the position of the sun, the moon and the stars. Its hoped that understanding the beetles navigational skills could eventually aid the development of driver

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