AS IT IS 2013-12-19 South Africa Teens Fight HIV 南非青少年抗击艾滋病 Hello again, and welcome. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. On todays program something serious, and then something fun. First we travel to South Africa to examine the fight a

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Pentagon Spokesman Captain Jeff Davis recently gave an update on the increasingly successful battle against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. 近日,美国国防部发言人杰夫公布了美方在叙利亚和伊拉克打击IS之战所取得的最新进展。

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In a recent press conference, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made clear that the United States has been more deeply engaged in more places to greater effect than at any time in American history. This is especially true of Africa: 在最近的新闻

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Through the efforts of the Iraqi armed forces, the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, ISIS has been defeated in Iraq, and nearly so in Syria. Its self-proclaimed capitals have fallen and its false caliphate is no more.

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New Bird Flu Strain Reaches Europe 欧洲发现新禽流感病毒 A new strain of bird flu known as H5N8 has been detected in Europe. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says it poses a serious threat to poultry there. African countries

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In 2011, scientists discovered they had created a highly contagious and deadly form of H5N1 commonly called avian or bird flu. When the discovery was announced, debate erupted over whether the research was ethical and fears the new strain could be us

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今天我们要学的词组是scramble。 Scramble有急忙,仓促的意思。 比如学校在开学前仓促训练新教员, The school scrambled to train the new teachers. 立法人员在最后期限到来之前仓促讨论提案, Legislators

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30 Nations Pledge to Fight Islamic State Group 30国承诺抗击伊斯兰国 About 30 countries have promised to support Iraq in its fight against Islamic State militants by all means necessary, including military aid. Delegates met in Paris. They ar

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Delegates at a global conference on avian influenza have called for at least $100 million in new funding to fight the disease before it has a chance to mutate into a human strain. The call came as Vietnam reported two new possible cases of bird flu i

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There are some antiviral drugs that doctors may use to treat influenza. Each year, medical researchers work to develop vaccines to prevent the flu from infecting people. No one knows yet exactly how much protection the vaccine provided people this fl

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Science and Technology The fight against AIDS HIV's slow retreat 科技 与艾滋病之战 艾滋病的缓慢退却 One of the world's worst plagues is giving ground 抗击艾滋病:显现曙光 THE timing of the pope's much-discussed change of pos

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FAO Issues Avian Flu Warning 世界粮农组织发布禽流感警报 Avian flu continues to pose serious health threats to both human and animal health, especially as the flu season approaches. Thats the warning issued by the U.N. Food and Agricultur

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今天我们要学的词是untested。 Untested, 没有经过测试的,没有经过考验的。最近,香港和印度等亚洲地区陆续发现禽流感。为了预防禽流感对人类的威胁, Several human vaccines for bird flu have been d

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South and Southeast Asian countries are grappling with new outbreaks of bird flu as winter weather sweeps across the region. The latest outbreaks are still confined primarily to poultry, but one new human death has been reported in Vietnam. 亚及东南

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Chinas Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security says a total of 13.1 million new jobs have been created in urban areas in 2013, which hits all-time high. Unemployment in urban areas was at 4.1 percent in 2013. And was around 4.05 percent for t

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Speaking on the possibility of human-to-human transmission, Dr. Zhong Nanshan, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, said there's still no evidence at the moment. He added, however, that the medical community should keep a clos

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AIDS 艾滋病 Get your act together, guys 筒子们,一起行动吧! Two UN reports on AIDS are coming out this month. That is one too many 联合国将于本月发布两份艾滋报告,其中一份纯属多余。 SOMETHING odd is going on in

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今天我们要学的词是confirm。 Confirm是证实的意思。印度尼西亚巴厘岛的卫生部门证实,一名29岁的妇女确实死于禽流感病毒。媒体报道说,Health officials in Bali have confirmed that a 29-year old woman die

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The other Greek cities followed her example with the exception of tiny Plataea which sent a thousand men. On the twelfth of September of the year 490, Miltiades, the Athenian commander, threw this little army against the hordes of the Persians. The G

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But the pass had been lost and the greater part of Greece fell into the hands of the Persians. They marched upon Athens, threw the garrison from the rocks of the Acropolis and burned the city. The people fled to the Island of Salamis. All seemed lost

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