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发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(226) / 评论(0) 分类 情景英语口语100主题

Another natural disaster has struck the North American nation of Mexico. A little over a week after a magnitude 8.1 earthquake occurred near the country's southern coast, a magnitude 7.1 tremor hit yesterday. This one in central Mexico and it caused

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年9月

AZUZ: A new national emergency is what Mexico's president is calling an earthquake that struck his country on Tuesday. It was the second tremor to shake Mexico in less than two weeks. This one was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Its epicenter, the point

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Australia and Afghanistan have just signed a strategic partnership from the sideline of the NATO Summit in Chicago. Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the 250-million-dollar agreement covers aid, development and trade. She says she hopes the summit wi

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Rescue efforts continue in southwest Pakistan, where the official death toll from Wednesday's magnitude 6.4 earthquake reached 215. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that providing shelter for homeless families is now a top priority. Rescu

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First story takes us to the fifth most populated country in the world, the Pacific island nation of Indonesia, home to more than 258 million people, and some of them are struggling with the devastation of another earthquake. A 6.5 magnitude quake sho

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2016年12月

墨西哥发生8.1级地震 美国各地举行911纪念活动 AZUZ: Moving to another coast now. Rescuers are scouring homes in southern Mexico. They're looking for survivors after a tremendous earthquake struck about 74 miles offshore on Thursday ni

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Once again, North Korea has defied international demands to give up its nuclear and missile programs. They're illegal, as far as the United Nations is concerned. They're a right as far as North Korea is concerned. And the communist country said on Su

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美国阿拉斯加发生7.9级地震 已发布海啸预警 AZUZ: Just after midnight on Tuesday, the earth jolted beneath the Gulf of Alaska. This is a Pacific body of water surrounded by southern Alaska. The earthquake that hit there was powerful, m

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By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 19 September 2006 watch New Parkinson's Treatment There is new hope for many patients suffering from the progressive neurological disorder called Parkinson's disease. A recent study by a team of German doctors reports

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By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 18 July 2007 Kenya and Tanzania have experienced seven earthquakes in the past five days. Arjun Kohli reports for VOA from Nairobi that the Kenyan government asks people remain calm and go about their daily business as usual. T

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 27 May 2006 Indonesian villagers mourn eartquake victims in Bantul, Yogyakarta The powerful earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Java early Saturday morning has killed more than 3,000 people and injured thousands

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Pakistani officials say a magnitude 6.4 earthquake has killed at least 170 people in an impoverished area of southwest Pakistan and left thousands of others homeless. International aid groups in the region estimated at least 500 people have been kil

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

Smart Spoon Allows Parkinson's Sufferers to Feed Themselves One of the biggest challenges for people living with Parkinsons is the difficulty - and sometimes inability - to feed themselves, due to the shaking tremors associated with the disease. But

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(一月)

Study: Electric Brain Stimulation Alleviates Some Disorders HOUSTON Modern medicine relies mainly on drugs to cure or alleviate disorders, but for some conditions doctors apply electrical stimulation. The pacemaker, for example, helps weak hearts mai

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now we turn to a story of a man whose hands got so shaky, he couldn't eat with a spoon and he struggled to write legibly. ALAN DAMBACH: My signature was so bad, and my writing was just atrocious. MARTIN: NPR's Jon Hamilton report

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 08 January 2006 Rubble in a cafeteria in the old port town of Hania A powerful earthquake has shaken southern Greece, but there are no reports of serious injuries or widesp

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(一月)

By Steve Herman Tokyo 05 August 2006 The world's first earthquake early warning system has begun operating in Japan. The government-developed system takes advantage of the precious seconds between the first indication of a powerful tremor and the ar

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(168) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(八月)

By Brian Padden Jakarta 30 September 2009 Indonesian officials say a powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of Sumatra has killed at least 75 people and trapped thousands under debris and rubble. The underwater earthquake rocked western Indon

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十月)

More than six days after a powerful earthquake struck southwestern China, hopes are dwindling that more trapped people will be found alive. The official death toll so far is more than 32,000, but is expected to surpass 50,000. China has begun three d

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