AS IT IS 2013-07-20 Taking Action to Care for the Elderly 采取行动关爱老年人 Hello, and welcome to As It Is! your daily magazine show from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms. Today, we talk about how populations around the world are growing

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AS IT IS 2013-07-25 Chinese Law Requires Adults to Support Aging Parents中国法律规定子女赡养父母 Welcome again to the daily magazine show As It Is. For VOA Learning English, Im Mario Ritter. 欢迎来到本期的慢速英语新闻杂志,我

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AS IT IS 2016-06-20 When Can Older Americans Expect to Retire? Maybe Never 美国老年人期望何时退休?也许永远不想 More Americans expect to work past their 65th birthdays and never retire, says a recent study. 一份最近的研究称,

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缺乏维生素D会增加老年痴呆症风险 Vitamin D comes from the sun and from some foods like nuts, lentils and fatty fish. 人们能够从太阳,或是像坚果、扁豆以及多脂鱼等食物中摄取维生素D。 Researchers have found t

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1. adjust,适应(要说明适应什么就在adjust后加to)。 eg:Astronauts in flight must adjust to weightlessness. 宇航员在飞行中得适应失重状态。 2. into,在口语中可表示对...很有兴趣,热衷于,入迷。 eg:She's really

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I need to go somewhere. 我需要去趙洗手间。 Would you mind I leave for a moment? I need to go somewhere. 您介意我离开一会儿吗?我需要去趟洗手间。 Go ahead. 请便! I want to wash my hands. 我想去趟洗手间 Excuse me

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J. K. Galbraith once said, Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. He could have been speaking of the decisions we keep putting off about how we pay for future care of the elderly.

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1.接触各种思想/经历:be exposed to new ideas/experiences/problems2.人们认为:it is generally/widely believed/held/agreed that3.许多问题:a host/number of problem 4.引起人们注意:claim call/attract general/public/world attent

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Inviting Grandma over for dinner may actually extend her life - and increase its quality - a new study shows. 一项新研究表明,邀请奶奶过来吃晚饭可能会延长她的寿命,并提高她的生活质量。 Researchers at the Universit

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Good news for parents of Starbucks employees in China: The company is now offering health insurance that will likely benefit around 10,000 elderly people. 对于中国星巴克的员工来说这是一个好消息:该公司要为员工父母上医疗保

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Ielts speaking test section 3 1.讲一讲一个对你影响比较大的older person。他是怎么样的一个人?都在哪些方面对你有一些什么影响?你们国家对老年人是什么态

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Provide a Better Life for Senior Citizens Now we have a growing population of senior citizens. To ensure happy lives for them has become a focus of attention. Our traditional respect of the aged needs updating. They deserve respect, understanding, co

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Do birthdays really make people happy Happy birthday! Do birthdays really make people happy? Of course they do. Birthdays celebrate the day we were born. Moreover, that extra candle on the cake represents another year of growth and maturity-

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People are living longer 人们现在越活越久 and societies are getting grayer. 社会也逐渐变得老龄化 You hear about it all the time. 你可能总是听到别人这么说 You read about it in your newspapers. 你也从报纸上如是读到

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Some abilities, of course, decrease with age. 当然,一些能力会随着年龄的增长而变差。 Those include abilities at tasks 这些包括完成 requiring physical strength and stamina, 需要体力和耐力, ambition, and the power of n

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At the opposite extreme 在对待老人的另一个极端 in treatment of the elderly, the happy extreme, 这个快乐的极端, are the New Guinea farming societies 是在新几内亚的农耕社会 where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past

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白头发 White hair 白头发不用 white ,要用 gray 。 Gray / grey hair 灰色的拼法英美不同: Gray : 美式英语 Grey : 英式英语 长了白头发可以用 going gray . I'm going gray My hair is going gray / went gray 用 going 一般

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年轻人的婚姻有七年之痒,近年来,中国老年人的婚姻也遭遇退休之痒。 请看《中国日报》的报道: As younger couples experience the seven-year itch in China, a retirement itch is emerging among the country's elderl

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try 尝尝 I'd like to take you to try some Indian food. 我想带你去尝尝印度料理。 Do you want to try some of my pie? 你想尝尝我亲手做的馅饼吗? Go ahead. Try a piece. 来,尝一小块。 You should try Korean food. It's gre

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If 50 is the new 40 and 60 is the new 50, whats the new 70? Well, it seems safe to at least say that 70 isnt what it used to be. And thats good. Because a new study finds that 70-year-olds did better on intelligence tests than 70 year olds used to do

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