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国家地理:Wings Over The Gulf 波湾战机 - 6

F15-E. They started to come out only at night. They started to take advantage of environmental conditions which made it difficult for us to see them. And they began to move their operations' areas farther north. The intense air attacks on Scud sites

国家地理:Wings Over The Gulf 波湾战机 - 2

During the Gulf War, American pilots flew the latest fighter model the F15C. One hundred and twenty were sent abroad. They fought alongside 82 royal Saudi Air force F15Ds, essentially the same plane as the C. Saudi F15s shot down two Iraq Mirage F1s

VOA常速英语2007-Australia Welcoming More Arab Gulf Tourists

By Phil Mercer Sydney, Australia 01 October 2007 Tourism officials in Australia say the number of visitors from Arab Gulf nations is increasing. Airlines are scheduling more flights between the Middle East and Australia to accommodate the rising popu

科学美国人60秒 SSS Widening the Suez Canal Ushers In Underwater Invaders

Widening the Suez Canal Ushers In Underwater Invaders 苏伊士运河对地中海水下物种的侵害 The Mediterranean Sea is home to some 17,000 native species. But it's also home to a growing number of non-native species: 756 at last count. 756 m

国家地理:Wings Over The Gulf 波湾战机 - 8

Very roomy. For a single-seat fighter it's spacious. Plenty of room to lay out stuff we carry with us. The nose is cut and you won't see any perpendicular surfaces go around. The four probes in the front are not machine guns. And they are not hologra

国家地理:Wings Over The Gulf 波湾战机 - 5

Threat posed by Iraq's Scud ballistic missiles. Militarily, Scuds were insignificant. But politically, Scud attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia could have torn the coalition apart. The political importance of hunting down the Scuds was so great that t

国家地理:Wings Over The Gulf 波湾战机 - 1

January 1991, an F-15 pilot on combat-air patrol sweeps the skies of Iraq. Sheridan, I'm Captain Medrimans, Captain in the 27th fighter squadron, flying in F-15 over Iraq. Today's been a mixed sweep, we started from the central, swept up for Bagdad,

国家地理:Wings Over The Gulf 波湾战机 - 3

(There's also a piece of safety wire that, em, showed up on the X-ray. So we have to...) In fact just the opposite proved true, the number of air planes ready to fly at any given time actually increased during the war. F-15s went from an 85 percent p

国家地理:Wings Over The Gulf 波湾战机 - 4

Hundreds of coalition airplanes were in the sky at any one time. Airborne warning and control system airplanes better known as AWACS kept air traffic straight. Largely thanks to AWACS there were no air-to-air friendly fire incidents during the Gulf W

成长的烦恼第七季:The Big Fix

Ben: See you later dad, I'm going to the movies with Kenny. Jason: Ben what did I tell you to do the last time you and I had a serious talk Ben: Hmm wait till I'm married. Jason: No!! Rake the leaves. Ben: Oh come on dad, Handy man Bob is guaranteed

VOA常速英语2007-Gulf States Shopping for US Investments

By Mil Arcega Washington 02 October 2007 Oil prices retreated Monday following record-breaking surges last month that saw the price of crude soar above $84 a barrel. Despite prices dipping to more seasonal levels on Monday, the high cost of energy co

埃及8月重新开放苏伊士运河

AS IT IS 2015-06-22 Egypt: Expanded Suez Canal to Open in August 埃及8月重新开放苏伊士运河 Egyptian officials are making plans to open a newly-expanded Suez Canal on August 6th. Officials say the new canal will be more than double the wat

VOA标准英语2009年-Egyptian Economists Worry About Falling Suez Ca

Egyptian economists are fretting, as the global economic crisis bites, hitting vital sources of government revenue, like tariffs from Suez Canal traffic. The canal authority reported that traffic for January was off by 22 percent, and that revenue w

New Gulf Oil Spill Report Levels Most of Blame on BP

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美国学生世界地理教材 第175期:产生《一千零一夜》的国家(4)

I have told you of a White Sea and a Black Sea. Here is a Red Sea. It is a long, narrow sea bordering Arabia. 我介绍过白海和黑海，现在要讲红海了，它是与阿拉伯毗连的一个狭长的海。 I don't know why it's called Red, unl

英语听书《海底两万里》第362期 第23章 珊瑚王国(60)

It took pulleys of great strength to hoist this dugong onto the platform. 把这条海马拉到大船的乎台上，必须使用力量很大的起重滑车。 The beast weighed 5,000 kilograms. 它重五千公斤。 It was carved up in sight of the C

VOA标准英语2008年-UN Says People Smuggling Across Gulf of Aden Do

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 May 2008 The U.N. refugee agency reports the number of people arriving on the coast of Yemen after being smuggled across the treacherous Gulf of Aden from the Horn of Africa has more than doubled this year. At the same time,

VOA标准英语10月-Gulf Markets Plunge, Oil Prices Lower

Fears of a global recession and falling oil prices are driving Gulf stock markets down dramatically, once again, and the generally morose economic climate has Arab investors scrambling for cover, as Edward Yeranian reports for VOA from Beirut. Stock

Gulf health nearly at pre-spill level: AP survey

BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Almost one year after the disastrous（灾难性的 ） oil spill, scientists believe that the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal. However, the scientists restrain their optimism about natur