Humanitarian Groups Seek Ways to Reduce Attacks on Aid Workers Humanitarian aid workers are often the target of armed groups in conflict areas. 人道主义援助人员经常成为冲突地区武装组织的目标。 Recently in Nigeria, Boko Haram m

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Study: Cheetah Population Dwindling 研究发现猎豹数量正在减少 In 1900, cheetahs numbered around 100,000. Today, there are just 10,000 in the wild. A new study says being fast is not enough to survive. Everybodys knows cheetahs are fast. So

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Noted Blogger on Mideast Advises US: Intervene Less, Not More 著名博主建议美国在中东减少干预,而不是更多 HOUSTON In 2004, Middle East expert Joshua Landis followed the advice of an academic colleague at the University of Oklahoma a

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Volunteers equipped with nothing more than digital cameras are taking part in an unusual bee hunt. 一些只带着数码相机的义工正在参与一项不寻常的环境研究。 It's part of an environmental study that has amateur photographers do

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President Barack Obama is expected on Friday to unveil his proposal for gradually reducing U.S. troop strength in Iraq. Mr. Obama will make the announcement at Camp Lejeune, a Marine base in North Carolina. 预计美国总统奥巴马星期五将公布

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Experts Meet to Understand Decrease in Humpback Whales Off Hawaii Every winter, thousands of humpback whales migrate from Alaska to the warmer waters near the Hawaiian Islands. There, they have sex and give birth before making their return trip north

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When life gets rough 生活艰难时 Let go of desire 减少欲望 Most people live with attached mind.What this means is that they attach themselves to a desire, and when they don't get it, their emotions plummet into negativity. Instead, try to pra

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今天我们要学的词是disadvantage。 Disadvantage, 劣势。美国总统奥巴马认为,美国学校应该延长教学时间。Obama says American students spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with kids in other cou

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Chinas National Development and Reform Commission has announced that the price of gasoline and diesel will be raised along with upgrades to fuel quality, in order to curb the countrys air pollution. 中国发改委已经公布,汽油和柴油价格将

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Housework: Women still do the lion's share of household chores统计证明,女人在做家务的份额上始终是占绝大部分的。 Men are doing no more housework than 30 years ago despite the myth of the New Man. Meanwhile, working women spen

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Dinosaurs Already Decreasing Before Asteroid Hit 恐龙数量在小行星撞击地球前就已减少分享到: Dinosaursthose big prehistoric creatures may have already been decreasing in population long before an asteroid crashed into the Earth, and

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公司研发无人机帮助减少温室气体排放 More than a million miles of pipelines carry natural gas from hundreds of thousands of wells to millions of consumers in the U.S. Its main component, methane, is also a greenhouse gas, much more pot

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芝加哥移民工人数量减少 CHICAGO For several years, human resources director Pete Tapaskar says its been a challenge to fill all the jobs at his suburban Chicago-based technology company. 几年来,人力资源总监皮特塔帕斯卡说,给

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MSF Reduces CAR Medical Care 无国界医生减少在中非共和国的医疗活动 The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders is reducing its operations in Central African Republic for one week. The move is to protest the recent killings of 16 ci

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Congress has passed sweeping legislation aimed at making the U.S. food supply safer. The bill gives the government broad new powers to inspect processing plants, order recalls and impose stricter standards for imported foods. And, rather than having

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1. 如何减少闪电危害 antenna n.天线 breathing n. 呼吸 cardiac arrest 心搏[动]停止 conductive adj. 传导的 conductivity n. 传导性 conductor of electricity 电导体 conductor n. 导体

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今天我们要学的词是trim。 Trim, 动词,有削减的意思。 The local school district plans to trim $2 million from its annual budget, 当地校区计划将年度预算削减两百万美元。监狱开销给美国各州带来沉重的财政

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今天我们要学的词是taper off。 Taper off, 是逐步减弱,逐步停止的意思。The number of tourists in the beach area tapered off after the peak season, 旅游旺季结束后,到海边来玩的游客慢慢减少了。Sales are expec

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今天我们要学的词是dwindle. Dwindle is spelled d-w-i-n-d-l-e, dwindle. Dwindle是缩减,缩小的意思。Hewlett-Packard may eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers. 惠普公司可能会裁

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Hi, everybody. 嗨,各位好。 Over the past year, as I traveled across the country campaigning for this office, I told you that if I was fortunate enough to be re-elected, I'd work to change a tax code that too often benefited the wealthy at the

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