08 THE STORIES OF ROME

The Pantheon here was built by the Emperor Haydrian in the 2nd century AD and its 1)dome is still one of the largest 2)concrete domes in the world. It's 50 yards across and its concrete is up to 20 fe

CNN 2011-05-28

Today ,we ask for your thoughts on athletic ability ,today we are gonna share some of your opinions and tackle another controvercial sports story.But we start on Capitol Hill.That's where members of both Houses of Congress held a meeting to hear a sp

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By using cutting edge technology and every available piece of fossil evidence, 60-million-year-old mysteries have forensically decoded. 通过最新的科技和每一块相关的化石证据，六千万年的谜团水落石出。 From their ability t

2015-01-02 科学新发现：重新发现冥王星-22

Pockets of sub surface gas will build up and eventually burst through Pluto's frozen surface as geysers, Will G demonstrates how even a small increase in temperature produces a large geyser. Okay,we're going to put liquid nitrogen into this plastic b

托福听力短文 I-11-3

(Woman) Today I want to talk about the Earth's last major climatic shift, at the end of the last ice age. But first, let's back up a moment and review what we know about climatic change in general. First, we defined climate as consistent patterns of

SSS 2009-09-17

The early Earths oceans were home to a lot of interesting chemistry. Now scientists have found that amino acids thought to be present way back when could have been cooked into other compounds vital for lifean idea you should take with a grain of salt

与美国小学生一起学英文第5册 第1期:沙子

Sand 沙子 If you look around you, you can find sand very easily. 你若环顾四周，就很容易发现沙子。 Sand comes from rocks. 沙子源自岩石。 Each grain of sand is less than 2 millimeters in diameter. 每粒沙子的直径小于两毫

VOA慢速英语2016--朝鲜火山或爆发

AS IT IS 2016-04-19 North Korean Volcano Waiting to Blow 朝鲜火山或爆发 A volcano in North Korea is at risk of erupting, according to scientists. Scientists say Mount Paektu, on the border of North Korea and China, had one of the largest erupt

英语听力：探索发现 2012-04-29 荒野求生:冰岛—8

You know, thats kind of a manageable temperature. Ive got to get in fast and if I dont get these wet clothes off, my body will get into shock. In this wind, they should hopefully dry in maybe a couple of hours. But at least during that time I can lie

小王子 第32期:了不起的正经事

The little prince was still not satisfied. 小王子仍然还不满足， If I owned a silk scarf, he said, 他说，对我来说，如果我有一条围巾， I could put it around my neck and takeit away with me. 我可以用它来围着我的脖子，

雅思阅读词汇：火山爆发(一)

火山爆发 The Eruption of Volcano abundant adj. 丰富的，富余的 accretion n. 增长 accumulation n. 积聚，堆积物 active volcano 活火山 Alaska Volcano Observatory 阿拉斯加州火山观

在全球用玄武岩处理二氧化碳排放

BBC News Scientists think they have found a smart way to constrain carbon dioxide emissions - just turn them to stone. The researchers report an experiment in Iceland where they have pumped CO2 and water underground into volcanic rock. Reactions with

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随着冰岛火山灰对欧洲空中交通影响的逐步减弱，欧洲的领空上周三重新开放。各家航空公司想方设法清理因大量冰岛火山灰云影响而停飞的积压航班。 请看外电的报道： Many European flights t

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I'm deep in the heart of the Chihuahuan desert, western Texas,and I've reached arroyo. 我身处德克萨斯州西部的 奇瓦瓦沙漠的中心地带 现在我来到一处河谷 Look at this.A slash of green vegetation fed from spring water emergin

新西兰英语 448 Chilean Volcano stops flights in New Zealand and Australia

On June 4th, a volcano in southern Chile erupted, sending volcanic ash into the air. The large particles of ash soon dropped to the ground but the small particles were carried, high in the air, by the westerly wind to Australia and New Zealand. This

万物简史 第322期:美丽而危险(5)

We have absolutely nothing to compare it to. 我们绝对没有任何东西可以用来与它比较。 The biggest blast in recent times was that of Krakatau in Indonesia in August 1883, 近代最大的一次是1883年8月印度尼西亚的喀拉喀托

万物简史 第323期:美丽而危险(6)

The ash fall from the last Yellowstone eruption covered all or parts of nineteen western states (plus parts of Canada and Mexico), 上一次黄石火山爆发所喷出的火山灰，铺满了西部19个州的全部地区或部分地区（加上加拿大

万物简史 第318期:美丽而危险(1)

15 Dangerous Beauty 第十五章 美丽而危险 In the 1960s, while studying the volcanic history of Yellowstone National Park, 20世纪60年代，美国地质勘测局的鲍勃克里斯琴森在研究黄石国家公园火山史的时候， Bob Chri

万物简史 第280期:砰!(15)

Walter was a geologist specializing in paleomagnetism, Luis was a physicist and I was a nuclear chemist. 沃尔特是地质学家，他的专长是古磁学；路易斯是物理学家；我是核化学家。 And now here we were telling paleontologis

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Perseids lead us up to where the money is Where kings had lived Both of us are leaving town when we get old enough We're moving up We are gonna see greater heights Theyll put our names up in neon lights Rolling volcanoes in the night Glowing in the d