Broadcast: July 15, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Sarah Long with Bob Doughty, and this is the VOA Special English program, SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. VOICE TWO: This week -- a report on the problem of drug r

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(193) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(下)-发展与科学

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Life requires balance. We balance work and family. We eat a balanced breakfast, sometimes. And we balance our electrolytes. That salt-water synergy is no

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Matthew: So these days there are warning labels on everything from CDs to cigarettes to fast food, everything. What do you think about that? Should people be warned all the time about everything or do they need to not really have that warning on it?

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26 Renting an Apartment GLOSSARY apartment manager a person whose job is to take care of problems in an apartment building, collect the rent, and find peopleto live in the building * When our toilet stopped working, we called the apartment manager. v

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Hypertension, or high blood pressure, affects one third of US adults and is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke. 三分之一美国成人受高血压困扰,它是心脏病,中风的主要诱因。 A recent study found an increase in self-

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8 Foods You'll Be Surprised To Learn Aret't Always Vegan 8种常被误认为素食的食物 We live in a very vegan-friendly food world these days. Even Ben Jerry's has put out a couple of vegan flavors. Unfortunately, not all foods are so nice. 近来

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I worked as a bartender/waitress at a bar inside an upscale health-food grocery store (it's a real thing, I promise). Most of our clientele was well-off retirees and 30-something recently divorced men hoping to get a date with someone coming in after

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. One of the best ways to protect yourself and other people from getting sick is to wash your hands with soap. To make soap, you need three main things: oil, water and lye. The oil can come from anim

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As liquid water, these molecules are engaged in a constant and random square dance that is called the hydrogen bonding network. 作为液态水,这些分子从事着恒定而随机的被称为氢键网络的方块舞。 Entropy favors keeping the s

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Matthew: So these days there are warning labels on everything from CDs to cigarettes to fast food, everything. What do you think about that? Should people be warned all the time about everything or do they need to not really have that warning on it?

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Science and Technology Plastics There and back again 科技 塑料 旧法新用 An old idea may help solve the problem of plastic waste 一个老方法也许可以帮助解决塑料垃圾的问题 PLASTICS were once regarded as wonder-materials. They

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[scene: in Alicia s house,they have the dinner] -Leonard: Gee,Penny,thanks for buying us dinner. 哇 Penny 谢谢你给我们买晚餐 -Howard: Yeah,what's the occasion? occasion: 理由 是啊有何事相求? -Penny: No,no occasion-- just felt like,

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-Beverly: Your Uncle Floyd died. die: 死 你Floyd叔叔死了。 -Leonard: Oh, my God. What happened? happen: 发生 哦,天啊,出什么事了? -Beverly: His heart stopped beating. beat: 搏动 他的心脏不跳了。 I have to urinate. urinat

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Soon after taking up his position, Davy began to bang out new elements one after anotherpotassium, sodium,magnesium, calcium, strontium, and aluminum or aluminium, depending on which branch of English you favor. 上任不久,戴维开始宣布发现一

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7.Improve Your diet 7.改善饮食 You will almost certainly have heard the saying that you are what you eat! 你肯定听说过人如其食这句谚语。 It can be easy to tell someone to improve their diet but it is a difficult change to make. 告诉

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Well, back in the days of the Reagan administration, there was a big flap over the governments effort to classify ketchup as a vegetable for the purposes of this nations school lunch program. It didnt work then. But now theres a new fight over pizza

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BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- The amount of trans fat and other nutritional information will be marked on the labels of prepackaged food, according to the country's first national standard for food nutrition. The labeling will take effect on Jan 1,

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It's well known that foods high in sugar and salt are dangerous for the waistline, but they could also be ageing your body much faster than you realise. 众所周知,吃高糖类和高盐类食物会有发胖的危险,但是这类食物加速身体

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Nor does abundance necessarily relate to importance. 风度与重要程度也不一定有关系。 Carbon is only the fifteenth most common element, accounting for a very modest 0.048 percent of Earth's crust, but we would be lost without it. 碳只居

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Myth 1: 笔者认为从上下文中猜出单词的释义是不现实的。例如有这样一句话Supernova is a massive star which undergoes gravitational collapse. 我们是不可能从上下文中猜出supernova的释义超新星的。而我们真

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