把城市变美,会遏制腐败。作为阿尔巴尼亚地拉那市市长的埃迪拉馬,利用这个看似简单的途径,通过使用彩色设计改变了公共空间而使公众获得了自豪。这些方案以民众优先,拉馬减少了犯

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:世界权势大转移

巴基斯坦开始遏制小儿麻痹症病毒蔓延 Pakistan is moving quickly to try to contain the polio virus after the World Health Organization imposed international travel restrictions on anyone coming from the polio endemic country. Health wor

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2014年5月

Jon Foley: Agriculture turns out to be one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. About 30% of all of our greenhouse gases come from either clearing land or farming land we already have. That's more than all the worlds electricity. It's more th

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 初学者听力文摘精选

Weekly Address: Standing Together to Stop the Violence WASHINGTON, DC In this week's address, Vice President Joe Biden commemorated the lives of the five police officers who were killed and the seven people who were wounded in Dallas. The police offi

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 奥巴马每周电视讲话

Hybrid, electric and fuel-cell vehicles could ease the burden, but they will not solve the problem because at the moment more than 70% of China's electricity is powered by coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. Even if there is a large-scale take-up

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忘记混合动力车,Shai Agassi说如果我们要真的改变排放量,我们得选择电力车。他的公司,Better Place,为我们带来一个激进的计划,一个可以让不同国家在2020年完全摆脱石油的计划。

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:交通工具

US President Barack Obamas Asia trip this week had excluded a trip to China but Chinas Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Qin Gang said peaceful development and cooperation were common interest in the region. He said American intentions would be reflected i

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2014年04月

主餐一道:泛听练习 以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 NPR边听边练

今天我们要学的词是deter。 Deter, 是遏制、阻止的意思。U.N ships carrying aid to Somalia are escorted by the French navy to deter pirates, 法国海军护送联合国运往索马里的援助物资的船只,防止海盗袭击。 星期

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

GWEN IFILL:The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new rules today to curb mercury emissions from the nation's power plants. The standards apply to roughly 600 coal- or oil-fueled power facilities. They will have to either reduce their emissions

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(291) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈环境系列

MARGARET WARNER: Chairman Rogers, thanks for joining us. REP. MIKE ROGERS, R-Mich.: Thanks for having me. MARGARET WARNER: As you know, the president is reviewing NSA surveillance policy. Whatever changes are going to happen are coming out later this

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Joining us now in the studio is Wang Tao, a resident scholar of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for global policy. He is responsible for the centre's energy and climate program. Q1: China plans to cut carbon emissions relative to GDP by 40 to 45 percent

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2013年11月

欧洲国家建立跨国系统以遏制逃税 PARIS, April 10 (Xinhua) -- France, along with four other European countries, have envisaged creating a multinational system of information to fight tax evasion, the French Economy and Finance Ministry sa

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(353) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

According to China's annual report on its efforts to address climate change in 2012, China has reached its goal in 2012 of reducing the energy consumption and CO2 emissions per unit of GDP and has achieved positive results. Deputy director of Chinas

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2013年11月

China has moved to clamp down on excessive speculation in commodities after weeks of frenzied trading boosted prices and ignited fears of another bubble in its domestic markets. 中国已采取措施遏制大宗商品市场的过度投机。连续数周

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

For many of us, checking our bank balances can result in a nasty shock if they have been unable to control their spending habits. 对我们很多人来说,如果控制不了购物习惯,查看银行存款余额的时候就会目瞪口呆。 But n

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

A U.S. demand to curb settlement activity topped the agenda at Israel's weekly Cabinet meeting. The government is divided over the issue, as we hear from 美国要求以色列遏制定居点活动的问题成为以色列每周例行内阁会议的主题

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Curbing climate change The deepest cuts 控制气候变化 一切为了减排 Our guide to the actions that have done the most to slow global warming 我们的行为指南已经最大限度减缓了全球变暖 ON SEPTEMBER 23rd 120-odd presidents an

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人要闻

Climate change 气候变化 In praise of second best 次好方案获认可 A carbon price would be better, but Barack Obama's plan to cut emissions from power plants is welcome 为碳排放定价显然更为理想,但奥巴马的电厂减排方案依

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Climate-change talks 气候变化会谈 Wilted greenery 凋零的青葱 The UNs latest round of climate-change talks open in Durban. Even avoiding deadlock would be an achievement 联合国最新一轮气候变化会谈在德班开幕,这次会谈只

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