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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A locavore is someone who eats foods produced locally. Locavores usually define local as within one hundred sixty kilometers. This new term grew out of a reaction to the long distances that food no

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(261) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(八)月

Politics Overtaking Science in Global Warming Debate Polls in recent years show that fewer Americans believe global warming is a threat or that it is driven by human activities. Thats despite consensus among scientists that climate change is not only

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On a cold, dull, Winter day, I sometimes light a fire after picking the children up from school. We gather around and feel cozy. The lounge where we have the fireplace also has a computer and a Wii console, so there is plenty to do for everyone. Thou

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 19 September 2006 The Getty Center is one of the leading art institutions in the United States. It is also major center for restoration of damaged art works. The Getty museum has been embroiled in recent controversies

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: I let you down. I should have acted faster and more decisively - the words of NPR CEO Jarl in an email to our newsroom. He met with NPR staff this afternoon two days after he asked for the resignation of senior vice president

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's talk about what to call a fact that is not a fact. President Trump made a string of statements at the CIA over the weekend. Our correspondent Mary Louise Kelly used this language to describe some of them. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHI

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GUY RAZ, HOST: Hey, Naomi, can you just quickly introduce yourself? NAOMI ORESKES: I am Naomi Oreskes. I'm the professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. RAZ: So it's fair to sa

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The forestry industry in New Zealand is in trouble. Forestry has always been one of our major export industries but in recent years, it has been declining. Nineteen sawmills closed this year, two in the last month. New plantings of trees reached the

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By Jim Malone Washington 27 December 2007 U.S. presidential contenders are making a final push for votes with one week to go until the first test of the 2008 election campaign, the Iowa presidential caucuses on January 3. VOA National correspondent J

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 May 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says it will be able to restore food rations it was forced to cut for more than a million displaced people in northern Uganda. As Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva, the WFP says i

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学英语单词
a bull session
Achillea millefolium
adhesive moisture
agro-ecological
ambiform
anti-Stokes scattering
auto cycle
balanced winding
bedstead
binomial surd
body-thrusts
Bursatte
byssal
calculated crime
cared for
celestial burial
Chinese character laser printer
civil motor accident case
clanship
closed regulatory loop
Copenhagen method
counter-spy
Cyclobalanopsis hui
datum temperature
ddr (defect disposition report or deviation disposition report)
dihydrocholesterin
distillation apparatus
dynamic study
e-rail
effeeble
ejection orbit
elk-silver
elmores
emulsified material
environmental medicine
eqpt.
Euhorbiasteroid
eurya hebeclados l.k.ling
ferchromide
field equalizer magnet
fore-gird
from A to Izzard
genetic affinity
hibernation
Hope I.
hosohamudama abnormalis
houthakker
huk-to (komun-som)
hultman
human process
hydrargillite (gibbsite)
Idahonian
inertial reference frames
Inspect Together
interruption mask
Jog L.
kochel number
loonily
main battery circuit
malline
Mercator('s) projection
meteos
monthly digest of statistics
multiprogram dispatching
Munro baggers
neutron-capture radiation
new-moon pool
nitrobenzimidazole
opinion polls
oxyparaffin
pantasomatous
Phlebotomus khawi
phytophilus
pink-red
Port Broughton
process supervisory program
protection and indemnity liability insurer
raviol
reason maintenance system
recommand
recycling bin
regner
release if in order after examination
Sanson Flamsteed projection
sege
selectant
Shelopugino
socio-economic class
stereoscopic strip camera
subatmospheric (pressure) storage
suspensory attachment
tatungshan formation
tertium comparationis
Tiam-1
tits.
toga praetexta
tough cathode
trichothecene toxicosis
trilinear pole
trip up
two-action line
yabine