VOA慢速英语 SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Osteoporosis Increases Danger

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. Today we tell about osteoporosis, a disease that can make bones weak so they break easily. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: An x-ray of a bone fract

2006年VOA标准英语-Osteoporosis Drug Reduces Breast Cancer Risk

By David McAlary Washington 20 June 2006 Older women at high risk for breast cancer may soon have a new treatment option. Researchers have discovered that an osteoporosis drug is effective against the disease. In fact, it is as good as the establish

音乐咖啡厅:One Day-Sissel

歌曲:One Day 歌手:Sissel 专辑：all good things Here I am, on my own again All alone but not afraid Here I stand, nowhere near the end Time to go a different way Cause another day will come to those who dare Believe in something new When you follow y

音乐咖啡厅:Weightless天籁之音-Sissel

歌曲：Weightless 歌手：Sissel 歌词制作：bottleneck All of my life I have been waiting Wondering what I will do All I can feel Is my heart beating Time and time again for you And Im weightless, falling in love I am weightless And I dont know why but

音乐咖啡厅:keep falling down-Sissel

Sissel Kyrkjebo，挪威著名的女歌手，以其空灵清澈的音色踏入歌坛超过10年。《All Good Things》是Sissel首张唱流行曲的唱片，十一首歌曲虽然还可发现不少令人联想到Enya一类的音乐元素，但歌曲编排都渗入了具备时代感的流行曲节奏。唯一真正保留Sissel原来风格的，或

音乐咖啡厅:Carrier Of A Secret-Sissel

Sissel Kyrkjebo，挪威著名的女歌手，以其空灵清澈的音色踏入歌坛超过10年。《All Good Things》是Sissel首张唱流行曲的唱片，十一首歌曲虽然还可发现不少令人联想到Enya一类的音乐元素，但歌曲编排都渗入了具备时代感的流行曲节奏。唯一真正保留Sissel原来风格的，或

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-10

And they put it into this tank here. Now this tank has already got water in it. So as they pour the olive oil in, it flows to the surface, all of the impurities go down to the bottom. And see this little trench here? A vital piece of gourmet equipmen

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-9

Just like the people of modern Istanbul, the Byzantines loved fresh bread and fresh vegetables. While the bread，at least the grain for it, they brought from their province of Egypt, the vegetables they grew themselves, in little plots beside their

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-8

This was once a marble square on a highway at the middle of Constantinople. I didnt suppose the Turks on modern Istanbul think much about ancient Byzantine victories. Yet, therere still some fragments here of that great memorial column that made it a

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-6

Once though, Constantinople held the palace of all palaces, the palace of the Christian empire. Church, hippodrome and palace, Constantine had made a sacred engine that would power Byzantium for ever. To protect the holy city of Constantinople, the e

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-5

Its only a little building, but it was actually the heart of ancient Palmyra. Its the senate, the Oval Office where government was conducted, where the town elders met, where plots were hatched, all that sort of thing. Of course, in Constantine's gre

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-4

This was the extent of Constantines ambition, the late Roman Empire, with Constantinople, not Rome, as its capital, and in the far north, in Germany, the city of Trier, a great imperial garrison. It still shows something of what ancient Constantinopl

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-3

A lonely ancient relic in a modern city. In the year of our Lord 330, on a lovely May morning, A great procession came down this road whichs the highway of an ancient city called Byzantium, and the procession was led by the great Roman Emperor Consta

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-2

Istanbul, one of the very greatest of Islamic cities, the monuments of the conquering Turkish Sultans whod ruled here since 1453, dominating its skyline. Underneath there are much older ghosts, brushed each day by people of the living city, the ruins

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-1

The eye of all the world， the ancients called it, the heart of a lost empire that had lasted for a thousand years and more. Saint Sophia, the church of the divine wisdom, this was their crowning glory---the glory of Byzantium. The vanished empire o

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-11

But Simon was a nutter. Simon had tremendous presence like an emperor. He sat still and silent, and in his contest between flesh and the devil, it seemed to most people, that he was beyond touch. And there he was, on his pillar, half way between heav

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-15

Such mysterious cargos, such magic marbles from across the empire, now sailed the seas and came to the holy city of Byzantium to be gathered up upon the site of the imperial communion. This is the finished dream, the tense climax of all of ancient en

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-12

The man there is Justinian, the emperor who 200 years after Constantine completely remade the Roman Empire, the man who made Byzantium. He was a man, they said, who was gentle and approachable, a man who never showed his anger, a man who in the quiet

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-14

Squares become circles, circles octagons, and all around a single central point. Space spins into ever smaller spaces. It's as perfectly mysterious as the finest natural crystal. The walls, the columns, seem to be nothing more than an illusion, and s

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-13

Each man stands inside his own mysterious inner space, for each one of them was occupied. And from that space they look outwards, from the soul towards the heavens. As you might expect, if you should move around them, solid bulk of marble in the huma