【英音模仿秀】扑朔迷离，数字游戏

模仿文本：Hello, and welcome to Assignment on the BBC World Service. I'm Ed Butler. And you find me in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, where these days, it's very much a numbers game. 译文： 你好，欢迎收听BBC全球服务《任务

【英音模仿秀】火星上有水？

模仿文本： But why is it so much more irritating, and so much harder to ignore than just overhearing a full conversation? New research may have the answer, later in the programme. First though, to Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover has been phoning ho

【英音模仿秀】不老奥秘

模仿文本：Does exercise hold the key to living a longer, healthier life? This is Discovery from the BBC. I'm Peter Bowes and I'm trying to find out whether it's possible to slow down the aging process. Muscle Beach in California is where Arnold

【英音模仿秀】《登堂入室》——谎言的力量

模仿文本：His new picture, In the House, is a work of comparative restraint, a black comedy of sorts about a school teacher who cultivates the literary talents of a young student, the student working on an autobiographical story about a cruel op

【英音模仿秀】ATP总决赛小德夺冠

模仿文本： To tennis here on the BBC World Service. At the climax of the man's professional tour, Serbia's Novak Djokovic cemented his place as the world no.1 when he beat Roger Federer 7-6, 7-5 to win the ATP World Tour finals. Reflecting on Dj

【英音模仿秀】大数据 大变革

模仿文本：Now I'll admit I was a little skeptical about this whole big data idea. Mankind has always been very keen on collecting data. What's a library if not a big data repository? So isn't big data just more of the same? The Business Daily ed

【英音模仿秀】欧洲经济，何去何从

模仿文本：as banking union looms, what will Europe's financial institutions look like in five years' time? And how will they be shaped by the financial centre of the Union - London, especially after the UK Prime Minister David Cameron raised the

【英音模仿秀】圣雄陨落

模仿文本：And it's 65 years since the funeral of Mahatma Gandhi, the man Indians call the Father of their nation. Louise Hidalgo has been talking to the daughter of the last British Viceroy of India, who is among the mourners. 译文：圣雄甘地

【英音模仿秀】史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格眼中的林肯

模仿文本： Spielberg's film is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's best-selling book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln and in particular his struggle in 1865 to get the 13th Amendment to the Constitution through Congress, the a

【英音模仿秀】男人哭吧不是罪

模仿文本： Now, here's the story to cheer any men listening to our podcast from the confines of a sickbed. Women often alleged that when their men folks say they're ill, what they're really suffering from is just so-called man flu, an exaggerate

【英音模仿秀】瓦砾中的新生

模仿文本： But first, this month Haiti is marking the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake, in which a quarter of a million people died. Recovery since that time has been frustratingly slow. More than 300,000 Haitians are still in tem

【英音模仿秀】为垃圾DNA正名

模仿文本： That was a headline on September 5th, the end of the concept of junk DNA. Actually, geneticists had long abandoned the idea that our genomes are riven with all the rubbish. But what was once called junk was largely still unexplored. 译

【英音模仿秀】新加坡陷落

模仿文本： It's February, 1942, Singapore. The unthinkable is happening. Japanese soldiers are advancing rapidly on the port that allied forces call their fortress in the east and bastion of the British Empire itself. 译文：那是1942年2月，

【英音模仿秀】英国料理中兴

模仿文本： I run a small restaurant. Whenever I talk about it, some well-meaning soul will ask with genuine interest What sort of food do you serve? Well, I can't say it's French, Italian, Indian, Chinese or Mexican, so I'll ask him a question r

【英音模仿秀】纪念斯大林格勒战役胜利

模仿文本：Now it was one of the most brutal battles ever fought. And the battle of Stalingrad from 1942 to 1943 was the battle that changed history. The Soviet Unions bloody contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany. To mark the 70th anniversar

【英音模仿秀】劳力迁移 路在何方

模仿文本：The poverty I saw in rural Shanxi Province is a huge challenge for the Chinese authorities which say they want to tackle inequality. But China's vast army of rural peasants has been the force that has driven the country's economic tran

【英音模仿秀】悲观主义者的花朵

模仿文本：A pessimistic world view does not have to entail a life stripped of joy. Pessimists can have a far greater capacity for appreciation than their opposite numbers for they never really expect things to turn out well. And so they may be a

【英音模仿秀】强强联手 继往开来

模仿文本： It's the largest ever purchase of a foreign company by a Japanese firm. Japan's telecoms giant Softbank is spending just over $20 billion to buy a majority stake in the US mobile carrier Sprint. The deal will bring together the third

【英音模仿秀】天赋人权？人赋人权？

模仿文本： True, one man's extraordinary rendition is another man's licence to torture, which in turn is a flagrant denial of a third man's human rights. But might the cross-border tangles of semantic barbed wire that snake through almost all hu

【英音模仿秀】镜头无言，回忆有声

模仿文本： It's 1968 and the Vietnam War is at its height. American soldiers are battling to defend the South Vietnamese city of Hue. With them is a young photographer Don McCullin. And it's there among the blood and the carnage that he would ta