Houston is an industrial city, central to the nation's oil and gas industry, and home to one of the busiest ports in the country. It's also home to more than a dozen of the 41 superfund sites in Texas. Those are areas contaminated with toxic waste th

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈环境系列

All right, we're ready for team one. Step up. You have 30 seconds. 好的,第一组请上场。请上前。你们有三十秒。 Okay, cute aprons. But what's their brand? 好的,围裙挺可爱。但品牌特色呢? In five, four, three, two..

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 打工姐妹花第二季

Lightning 闪电 People can see lightening quite often. 闪电很常见。 Lightning is a bright flash. 闪电是明亮夺目的闪光。 It comes with a thunderstorm. 它伴着雷暴而来。 All thunderstorms make lightning. 所有的雷暴都会制造

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 与美国小学生一起学英文第5册

BBC news with Stewart Macintosh. Officials in Haiti say at least 800 people are now known to have been killed by hurricane Matthew which struck the country on Tuesday. The hurricane hit the country's southwestern peninsula, virtually destroying the m

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

What a lovely day,isn't it? Yes,it's nice and bright. I hope it stays like this. I hope so,too. Is the weather usually like this here? It's usually a bit hotter than today. What's the weather like in winter? It's pretty cold and often snows. I wonder

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语900句

今天要学的词是 through。谁都知道through就是通过。对,但是我们要指的是经历。去年卡特里娜经历飓风的一个灾民至今心有余悸,一听到风声就会跳到窗口。他说:You would, too, if you'd been thro

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

JEFFREY BROWN:Disaster struck the Oklahoma City area this afternoon for the second time in two days. An enormous tornado blasted whole neighborhoods in the suburb of Moore and left little but shredded wreckage in its wake. There was no immediate word

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈教育系列

GWEN IFILL:Our next story takes us to the Jersey Shore. That's where the president headed today to take a look at its recovery in the aftermath of last fall's superstorm. Today's visit was a less somber occasion than his last New Jersey tour. Judy Wo

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今天我们要学的词是devastate。 Devastate, 是破坏的意思。8月29号是卡特里娜飓风来袭两周年的日子。媒体报导说,Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, there is still much work t

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

如我这般,挣扎求生:Only The Strongest Will Survive Hurricane #1,很就很久以前的一个Brit Pop风格乐队,这首Only The Strongest Will Survive使他们的经典。每次听到I tell you only the strongest will survive/These days

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英文摇滚歌曲

Only The Strongest Will Survive Hurricane #1 Well my life is worth nothing to some While to others I am number one. And it can be so hard to know When to try, when to give up and go Now this feeling is reeling me in I can feel it like it was my skin

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 好听的英文歌曲

在现行的高考试题中,改错题属于主观试题客观考查的综合性高层次试题。它既考查方方面面的基础知识,又考查综合运用语言的能力,包括写作能力。很多考生面对此题,茫然不知所措,结果没错的地方给改错了,错误的地方却放过了。 为了避免解题的盲目性,现根据近几年来所

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(148) / 评论(0) 分类 英语学习方法

And the Associated Press now confirms that the death toll from Harvey has risen to 12. But as we focus on Texas and Louisiana, nature is also taking a devastating toll elsewhere. Heavy monsoons are paralyzing Mumbai, India, right now. More than 1,200

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

For another view on the soggy ground in Texas, I spoke a short time ago to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat. She has represented downtown Houston for more than two decades. The congresswoman has not been able to access her own home due to

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

Nine years ago, when Hurricane Ike caused $30 billion of property damage in the Houston and Galveston area, it was a wakeup call. But according to the report Hell or High Water, published last year by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune, Houston did not

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico's power grid, but it turns out Puerto Rico's power company was in deep trouble before the storm struck two weeks ago. Reuters reporter Jessica Resnick-Ault has reported on that side of the story. She joins me now

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

Hurricane Irma is now blamed for more than 20 deaths across the Caribbean. It made landfall overnight in Cuba as a Category 5 storm. 155-mile-an-hour winds battered the island's northern coast, and the storm surge reached 12 feet in some areas. In th

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

In the day's other major story, Hurricane Irma is now the most powerful storm ever recorded in the open Atlantic Ocean. It has winds of 185 miles an hour, and it's closing in on the Northeast Caribbean. That has one forecaster warning that the Leewar

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

And now to Hurricane Maria. The confirmed death toll across the Caribbean rose to 19 today, nearly all of them on the island of Dominica. Reports also began coming in of widespread damage on Puerto Rico, after it took an all-day pounding on Wednesday

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【模仿句子】 But first after pounding Haiti and Cuba, Hurricane Matthew is heading in a northwesterly direction towards the United States. It is expected to move across the Bahamas and reach the east coast of Florida by Thursday evening. 概况:

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