英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非之克鲁格公园 The Kruger—13

This is the halfway point of my walk today. It's been three hours since I started it out, some ideal spot for rest. I'm finally in the upper Berg.-So this is where people do in origins. -Yes. -Now I wish it's today though. I've come to realize this i

经济学人: 系外行星的卫星探索之旅 (2)

That was intriguing enough for them to be awarded a chunk of coveted observing time on the Hubble Space Telescope, to take a closer look. 这对他们来说足够令人着迷，因为他们可以获得大量观测时间，用哈勃空间望远镜进行

万物简史 第1期:引言(1)

Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn't easy, I know. To begin with, for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to creat

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Closeted Teen Struggles To Maintain His Double Life In 'Beach Rats'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When the film Beach Rats won the best directing prize at Sundance in January, there was snow on the ground. The film's suntanned teenagers are more in sync with the season now. Critic Bob Mondello says one of them is still not comf

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This is the halfway point of my walk today. It's been three hours since I started it out, some ideal spot for rest. I'm finally in the upper Berg.-So this is where people do in origins. -Yes. -Now I wish it's today though. I've come to realize this i

英语听力：自然百科 神奇水世界 Water-6

It worked because the water of the river carried something special within it, an almost invisible treasure that was the secret of Egypts economic might. What made Egypt great is this stuff - silt. It's a rich supermineral silt, it's like an expresso,

经济学人:寻找新抗生素:巨蜥血的48种功效(1)

Science and Technology 科技 Finding new antibiotics: The 48 uses of dragon's blood 寻找新抗生素：巨蜥血的48种功效 Komodo dragons could be the source for a new generation of antibiotics 科莫多巨蜥可成为新一代抗生素的来源

经济学人150:向地底进军

Science and technology 科学技术 Going underground 向地底进军 A project to reveal more about all the carbon on Earth 旨在向人们揭示更多地球碳信息的项目 The Deep Carbon Observatory 深碳观测站 A world still full of secrets

经济学人110:地球上所有碳的秘密的项目

Technology Going underground 科技 去地球深处 A project to reveal more about all the carbon on Earth 一个将会揭示更多关于地球上所有碳的秘密的项目 THE carbon cycle is the stuff of school books. 碳的循环在学校教科书中

经济学人53:羽毛化石 并非鸟类独有

Science and Technology 科技 Fossil feathers 羽毛化石 Not just for the birds 并非鸟类独有 A trove of fossils sheds light on the evolution of feathers 珍贵羽毛化石的发现能够更好地阐释羽毛的进化过程 THE fossil record i

万物简史 第71期:事物的测定(19)

As for Mason and Dixon, they returned to England as scientific heroes and, for reasons unknown, dissolved their partnership. Considering the frequency with which they turn up at seminal events in eighteenth-century science, remarkably little is known

澳政府发布难民抵澳生活指南

Syria is a long way from Australia and the 12,000 refugees who will make their way south over the next 12 months will be likely to measure the distance in more than kilometres. 叙利亚距离澳大利亚很远，1.2万难民将在未来一年南下，

假如地球只剩最后一小时

What would you do in your last 60 minutes?An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes? Not surprisingly, the majority of Britons questioned in a survey -- 54 percen

做了坏事儿就忘记的叫做不道德健忘症

Unethical Amnesia Explains Why People Conveniently Forget Their Awful Behavior 不道德的健忘症解释了为什么人们很快地忘记他们可怕的行为 It feels bad to be reminded of unsavory actions accidentally insulting a colleague, forge

经济学人244:太阳物理学 落山的太阳

Science and technology 科学技术 Solar physics 太阳物理学 Sun down 落山的太阳 Several lines of evidence suggest that the sun is about to go quiet 证据的一些方式表明太阳即将变平静 spots of bother? 太阳黑子的困扰？

经济学人348:为啥斑马身上是条纹

Science and technology 科学技术 Why zebra are striped 为啥斑马身上是条纹 Horse sense 马识 Are zebra stripes just an elaborateinsect repellent? 斑马身上的斑纹只是精致的驱虫器吗？ Imagine what it looks like to a fly 想象

经济学人315:恐龙行为 疯狂撞头的家伙

Science and technology 科学技术 Dinosaur behaviour 恐龙行为 Headbangers 疯狂撞头的家伙 Evidence of duelling dinosaurs 战斗性恐龙的证据 WORKING out how an extinct animal behaved when it was alive is tricky. 对于灭绝的生物来

经济学人:阿里巴巴 一审再审(下)

Most intriguingly, the American regulator is also scrutinising how the company has handled its many related-party transactions. Jack Ma, the firm's founder, caused outrage when he unilaterally spun off AliPay, Alibaba's lucrative online-payments arm,

经济学人277:侵权法改革的弊与利

Tort reform 侵权法改革 Closing the lottery 不能再靠碰运气 The debate over tort reform generates exaggerated claims, but also a few good ideas 改革催生了大量索赔，但也带来一些好观念 IN HIS floundering campaign for presid

经济学人261:欧盟委员会 处在正确位置的朋友

The European Commission 欧盟委员会 Friends in the right places 处在正确位置的朋友 The British are down, the Germans and east Europeans are up 英国势力不在，德国和东欧的势力崛起 I AM French, I am deeply French, but here