VOA慢速英语2012 EXPLORATIONS - Lighthouses Keep Watch Over the North Carolina Coast

EXPLORATIONS - Lighthouses Keep Watch Over the North Carolina Coast This is Shirley Griffith. And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell about the lighthouses that protect ships sailing along the coast o

美语听力 English Cafe 284

Topics: John Audubon and the Audubon Society; Famous Songs: On Top of Old Smokey; sign versus signal; figure out versus find out; to beat a dead horse Words: ornithologist to sketch naturalist to illustrate bird-banding taxidermy to become extinct to

豆知识 2011-07-24&07-30 无线信号发生器的发展史

It starts with a blip, a beep, a noise, a pattern, a signal. It could be anything - ink on paper, machine data, or even the words flowing through your minds right now. Signal generators play an important role in testing devices we use every day. The

VOA标准英语2011--Pakistan, India Signal 'New Era' of Coop

Pakistan, India Signal 'New Era' of Cooperation The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan have hailed a new era of cooperation, after meeting for the first time since peace talks between the rival nations resumed earlier this year. The officials pr

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-11-08

Crampfish became famous thanks to the movie Finding Nimo. In real life, their social hierarchy is simple, larger fish dominate their smaller counterparts. Now we know that to reinforce the social structure, the fish communicate with aggressive and su

VOA标准英语2008年-Monkeys Use Brain Signals To Operate Robotic Ar

By Jessica Berman Washington 28 May 2008 Monkeys have successfully operated robotic arms to feed themselves with human-like precision, activating a mechanical device with signals from their brain. Researchers say the technique could eventually be use

2007年VOA标准英语-In Senegal, Rotting Mangoes Signal Wasted Econo

By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 05 July 2007 As the height of mango season approaches, tons of the succulent fruit arrive in the Sandika mango depot, in eastern Senegal, from villages across Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and southern Senegal. Mangoes are plentiful i

美国国家公共电台 NPR Judge Gorsuch's Writings Signal He Would Be A Conservative On Social Issues

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing next week. For more than 10 years as a federal appeals court judge, Neil Gorsuch has been writing judicial

英语听力：自然百科 New Search For ET 寻找外星人（下）

And clearly, we are trying to find evidence of ET, and we are trying to do that by looking for a signal, in whats called the electromagnetic spectrum, which is a fancy way of saying the radio dial, at least for us. Let me turn on my radio here, okay,

2007年VOA标准英语-Kenya Airways Jet Crashes in Cameroon

By Katy Migiro Nairobi 05 May 2007 Authorities in Cameroon have begun a search for a Kenya Airways jetliner that crashed with 114 people aboard in the southern part of the country. The plane took off from Cameroon's commercial center of Douala early

VOA常速英语2007年-Afghan Photo Exhibition Signals Artistic Reviva

By George Dwyer Washington 02 November 2007 Afghanistan, a nation once renowned for its artists and intellectuals, has again begun to sprout a vibrant arts movement. For years, artistic expression was stifled in the war-torn nation by religious extre

VOA标准英语2009年-Warning, Apology Mark Week of Mixed Signal

By Kurt Achin Seoul 15 October 2009 North Korea is accusing the South of sending warships into its waters and says a clash may result. That warning comes during a week of North-South dialogue, in which Pyongyang offered a rare apology to the South f

美国国家公共电台 NPR At This English Bar, An Old-School Solution To Rude Cellphones

At This English Bar, An Old-School Solution To Rude Cellphones SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There was a time when people went to bars to talk to other people, maybe even make new friends. Then, cellphones became commonplace, and people sit and drink in silence

英语听力文摘 English Digest 408、点点头,更自信！

For Self-Confidence, Just Nod Don: Yal, everyday I grow closer to my goal of mind-control. Yal: What do you mean, Don? D: Checkout thisstudy from Ohio State University that says nodding your head to signal approval and shaking your head to signal dis

英语俚语天天说 第396期:"手机没信号"英语怎么说?

【俚语】 Bars n. 条 a bar of soap 一块肥皂 a chocolate bar 一条巧克力棒 【例句】 I have no bars on my cellphone. 我手机没信号。 I only have one bar on my cellphone. 我手机只有一格信号。 Signal 信号 【例句】 I

英语俚语天天说 第332期:"He's a busybody"是"大忙人"?

介绍： Busybody 好事者 He spreads rumers like it is his profession. He is really a busybody. 他到处传播流言蜚语，就好像这是他的职业一样。他真是个好事者。 A lot on ones plate 很忙 I just have a lot on my plate tod

【英语时差8，16】外星人来电，说什么？

the previous show Don and Yael discussed communication from other worlds. Well, as it turns out if E.T. does try to phone it will be much more complicated than can you hear me now? D: Okay, Yael, so suppose one day scientists pick up a transmission t

英语听力文摘 English Digest 165、Can Fish Smell?

Y: I noticed that fish have holes that look like nostrils, does that mean they can smell? D: Smell, or olfaction, as scientists call it, is an important sense for many fish. Those little holes that look like nostrils are called nares. Nares dont lead

美国有线新闻 CNN 来自外星人的问候? 加拿大侦测到外太空重复电波

What do the names Whirlpool, Black Eye, and Sombrero all have in common? Are they all appliance brands, names of galaxies, special ops forces, or oceanic reefs? These are all the names of galaxies, massive concentration of stars. AZUZ: Of course, the

【英语时差8,16】绿色植物能预知未来？

The scientists guessed that the new seedlings were sensing the presence of neighboring plants by detecting the characteristic color of light reflected sideways from leaves of the neighboring plants. That characteristic color contains a very small amo