A male polar bear is searching for a mate. Willing females are few and far between. And the sea ice some of which he travels will soon melt and vanished. He's running out of time to find the mate in this frost frozen desert. Ten miles ahead, a single

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2011年

Smartphones About to Make Leap, Carry Basic Senses 智能手机基本触感方面有飞跃 Long-distance communication contains mostly sounds and pictures. For now. But scientists in Britain say they are close to creating additions for our smartphone

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(一月)

A common response to seeing an ant in your house is to stamp on it. But if you crush a member of the ant species? , you might catch a hwiff of strange smell, a smell that reminds some people of blue cheese, rancid butter or rotten coconut. In fact th

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年Scientific American(六)月

This is Scientific American sixty seconds science. I am Karen Hopkin. This will take just a minute. Your morning coffee. A baking pie. That turkey in the oven. There are some smells you just cant get enough of. But mix them and other scents all toget

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十一)月

Fat, laid down last summer provides energy during the meager winter months, but not all will make it. Further north, another cold weather survivor truly clings to life, one of the rarest birds in the world, the critically endangered Siberian White Cr

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Few have witnessed this moment, for the male, his only tender encounter in an otherwise solitary life. But it doesn't last long. A rival suitor has also caught the female's scent. Courtship has to be put on hold. He must fight for his rights. He sees

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发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 多里安·格雷的画像

科学家曾对蜜蜂离奇死亡或消失的原因进行多番推论,包括全球气候暖化、疾病或杀虫药等。科学家和业界称这个蜜蜂消失现象为蜂群衰竭失调(Colony Collapse Disorder,简称CCD)。爱因斯坦的蜜蜂预言真是所言不假,他曾经说过没有蜜蜂,就没有授粉,就没有植物,就没有动物

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 国外媒体新闻

《爱无厌》(Insatiable)是野人花园乐队(Savage Garden)原主唱戴伦-海斯(Darren Hayes)单飞后的最佳单曲,选自他2003年的专辑《心灵节奏》(Spin)。 Insatiable Darren Hayes When moonlight crawls along the

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英语金曲精听

Imagine if you could focus your nose the way you focus your eyes. Scientists now believe that animals with a highly developed sense of smell like rats and dogs, do just that. Similar to the way we taste sweet, salty sour and bitter on different parts

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十一)月

196. Scarlet斯嘉丽 scarcely-screen There was a young theater student who was barely scraping by working as a waitress in restaurants. She had applied for many scholarships but was denied every time. She had great hopes of becoming a great actress

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Lorraine tried on each one of the tops. They all fit her well. Im getting fat, she said, looking in the mirror. Quinn agreed, but told her that she could get as wide as the mirror itself and he would still love her. Ill never get that fat, she swore.

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

Walk through Times Squareyou're bombarded with advertising. And it turns out, a bumblebee might have a similar feeling, buzzing through a field of flowers. So these flowers are these billboards, they're advertising a good, this delicious nectar rewar

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年Scientific American(八)月

Conserving wildlife is a struggle all governments face, but nowhere more sole than in China, where the worlds last female rafetus turtle (斑鳖)is about to be introduced to her new home. 600 miles and 17 hours into the journey, the team arrives at t

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The snail appears to release chemicals that paralyse its victim. The goatfish seems powerless to escape as it's swallowed alive. Moments later, a venomous barb inside the snail puts the fish out of its misery. In a place where even seashells are dead

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2014年

But hot tempers on a hot rock beats being on the outside trying to get in. This exclusive resort, isnt accepting new guests. Come evening, a cool mist hangs over the lake, as the last of the egg-laying caddis flies get picked off by ducks and bears.

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2011年

《倾听你的心》是瑞典国宝罗克赛特乐队(Roxette)1989年全美冠军单曲。这是一支来自北欧的二人组合,90年代初红遍全球的流行摇滚乐队。他们另一首著名的作品是被收入电影《漂亮女人》(Pretty Woman)原声大碟的《那一定是爱》(It Must Have Been Love)(点击收听)

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What should you do when a wild animal or bird needs help? First, be careful! Mammals can carry diseases transmissible to humans, including rabies. That's why you shouldn't handle skunks, bats, coyotes, foxes or raccoons, but call animal control for h

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

摆脱特困户 Find the natural scent that awakes you 找到自然的味道,唤醒你的每一个细胞! Smelling an aromatic oil, plant or herbis one way to wake up our senses. Try placing a pot of fresh mint or basil on your office desk, or ap

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary herb: plant used for flavour, food, scent, or medicine shrub: a woody plant that doesnt grow as high as a tree petal: an individual segment of a flower, often coloured symbolic: representative of something nutrition: food tha

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