VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about Herbert Hoover. He took office in 1929. Hoover was president for the early years of what Americans call the Great Depression. During those years, the United States economy

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(九)月

Death is very likely the single-best invention of life. 死亡很可能是生命最杰出的产物 It's life's change agent. 它是生命变革的推动者 It clears out the old to make way for the new. 老一代退出舞台 新一代徐徐登场 Whe

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 名人传记

Congratulations, class of 2014! 祝贺2014届毕业生 Melinda and I are excited to be here. 我和梅琳达很高兴能来到这里 It would be a thrill for anyone 能受邀到斯坦福做毕业演讲 to be invited to speak at a Stanford commencemen

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 公众人物毕业演讲

When we want to learn more about the immune system 当我们想更深入理解免疫系统 to help cure the worst diseases, 帮助治疗最严重的疾病时 we work with Stanford. 我们找到斯坦福一同合作 When we want to understand the chan

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[00:17.33]Sergey Brin [00:20.25]谢尔盖布林 [00:33.36]词汇扫描 [00:37.29]co-author 共同编写 [00:41.85]ease 减轻 [00:45.87]film rating 电影分级 [00:51.45]Sergey expressed interest in the Internet [00:54.46]very early on in his studies at Stanford. [00:

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 各色各样的人

Stanford freshman Emily Wang Ziyi had a high SAT score, was a student union president and enjoys reading, writing, calligraphy, music and jogging. 斯坦福大学新生王梓漪(艾米丽)的SAT(学术能力评估测试)得了高分,曾经当过学

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(202) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

August 18, 2005—Call it x-ray vision for archaeologists. High- tech scans and computer modeling have offered scientists a noninvasive glimpse inside the delicate burial case of a millennia- old mumm

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

That 80s power ballad had it all wrong. Love may keep you from hurting. Two researcherspain specialist Sean Mackey at Stanford and love specialist Arthur Aron at S.U.N.Y. Stony Brookmet at a neuroscience conference. They realized they were talking ab

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十)月

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. When it comes to elections, sometimes we vote with our heads and sometimes with our hearts. But scientists at Stanford say we might also be voting with our

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The Obama administration has released its Nuclear Posture Review, the guideline for how nuclear weapons fit into the nations defense plans. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says its designed to make clear states like Iran and North Korea all options ar

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

The main presidential rivals are tapping into public weariness over the economys slow recovery to make the case to voters to think twice about voting for the other guy. President Obama and Republican former Governor Mitt Romney lobbed a new round of

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On 21st-century campuses, is there room still for traditional literature such as Shakespeare? 在21世纪的大学校园里,还有莎士比亚此类传统文学的空间吗? A declining number of students think so in the USa trend that worries le

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

From VOA Learning English, this is EXPLORATIONS in Special English. Im Bob Doughty. And Im Faith Lapidus. Today we tell about the growing popularity of Massive Open Online Courses in higher education. The movement toward education by computer is deve

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

JUDY WOODRUFF: Back in this country, we turn to a classroom program designed to help young people cope with PTSD, a condition caused not by the shock of war, but by the stresses they encounter in life outside their schools. MAN:We go we start with ou

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈健康系列

It is less than a quarter of an hours drive down Route 101 from the village-like campus of Stanford University to Mountain View, the Silicon Valley home of Udacity. 从庄园般的斯坦福大学(Standford University)校园出发,沿着101号路,驾

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 bi

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语杂谈

( 00:02:56) I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest Ive ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语杂谈

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Google is running a secret research lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the tech giant invests to experiment and invent what may be world-changing technologies for the future, U.S. media reported on Monday. Acc

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

But reinventing yourself can be very hard. You can face a lot of resistance at times. 但是重塑自己是非常难的。你时常会遇到许多阻碍。 When I was nearly done with my PhD, I got bitten by that entrepreneurial bug. 在我快拿到博

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

You might not think there would be that many people in the world prepared to devote lifetimes to the study of something so inescapably low key, 你或许会认为,世界上不会有多少人愿意花毕生的心血来研究那个不起眼儿的东西

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