A second powerful earthquake hit southern Japan Saturday morning, prompting authorities to issue, and then rescind, a tsunami warning in the region. 日本南部星期六早晨又发生一场强烈地震,促使有关当局向该地区发出了海啸警

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(40) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at two forty-six p.m. local time on March eleventh. Japans Meteorological Agency released its first tsunami warnings just three minutes la

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An Australian restaurateur fed up with the waste left by diners has ordered her customers to eat everything on their plates for the sake of the earth or pay a penalty fee。 Chef Yukako Ichikawa has introduced a 30 percent discount for diners who eat

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Japanese investment in South-East Asia 东南亚地区的东瀛资本 Outward bound 向外拓展 A weak domestic economy is spurring Japanese firms to expand abroad 羸弱的国内经济形势鞭策着日本公司向海外进军 IT IS not every day t

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Healthy snacks in Japan 日本健康零食 The joy of soy 黄豆欢歌 Defying Western food imperialism 小黄豆不畏西餐帝国主义 If you want to learn how to live longer, look at the people of Okinawa, a string of islands in south-western Jap

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JEFFREY BROWN:And finally tonight: Japan two years after the massive earthquake and tsunami struck its northeastern coast. Ray Suarez has the story. RAY SUAREZ:The 2011 quake was one of the strongest in recorded history. It set off a tsunami that kil

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈环境系列

JEFFREY BROWN: And we check in again with two people who've helped us keep up with the continuing crisis. Arjun Makhijani is an engineer special -- engineer specializing in nuclear fusion. He's the president of the Institute for Energy and Environmen

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韩国批评日本大臣参拜靖国神社 South Korea has repeated its condemnation of Japanese politicians for visiting a controversial war shrine. Seoul calls the visits a major stumbling block to peace and cooperation in the region. South Korea F

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天我们要学的词是hotline。 Hotline, 是热线的意思。Emergency hotline, 就是为紧急事件开通的热线。中国国防部长曹刚川星期三出访日本,与日本新上任的防卫省长官高村正彦举行会谈。日本媒体

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

McDonald's has apologised after a human tooth was found in a portion of fries in Japan last year. 在去年售出的一份薯条里发现一颗人的牙齿之后,日本麦当劳向顾客赔礼道歉。 A customer complained after making the discove

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China has taken Japan's No 2 spot for iOS revenue as the revenue more than doubled in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the same period last year, according to the recent statistics released by San Francisco-based analyst firm App Annie. 旧金山分

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

日本女宇航员的时尚太空服 An illustration of an outfit made by Japanese fashion design Tae Ashida for astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, who is on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Ashida put together a light blue cardigan

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned down the offer of a dog as a gift from the Japanese government, according to a Japanese MP. 据一位日本议员表示,俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔普京于日前拒绝了日本政府将狗狗当做礼物

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Could a writing robot make novelists obsolete? 机器人作家会让人类小说家失业吗? It might not happen anytime soon, but then again, it might. In Japan, a short novel co-written by an artificial intelligence program (its co-author is hum

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Japanese electronics firms 日本电子企业 Eclipsed by Apple 苹果,你挡住了我的阳光 Electronics companies in Japan are starting to turn themselves around, but they are a shadow of their former selves 日本的电子公司的处境已经开

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The U.S. and its Asian allies are trading barbs in the wake of North Korea's latest missile test early today. Nick Schifrin has our report. It was an alarming way to wake up, 6:00 a.m. on Japan's Hokkaido Island, and the air raid sirens go off as a N

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JAPAN'S new prime minister admits he is no Mr Charisma - Yoshihiko Noda likens himself to a marine bottom-feeder rather than a glittering goldfish. But that, he says, is his appeal. JAPAN'S new prime minister admits he is no Mr Charisma- Yoshihiko No

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The rise of social media is eroding the amount of face-to-face communication between people. In Japan, one upshot of this phenomenon is that younger people are finding it increasingly difficult to share their problems with those around them. In essen

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在东京湾美国战舰密苏里号上 the representatives of the Allied nations from China, Great Britain, Russia and France are filled with the motion 中、英、苏、法同盟国代表百感交集 They have the privilege of attending the signin

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Concerns about the increasing loses being suffered in the Pacific 担忧太平洋上愈来愈严重的损失 Roosevelt has come to press Stalin to join the war effort against Japan 罗斯福来催促斯大林一同对抗日本 Stalin has made Rooseve

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