CNN 2010-10-29

An erupting volcano, some newly-discovered species, and a celebratory soccer match. We've got it all covered for you in today's edition of CNN Student News! Hello and welcome. From the CNN Center, my name is Carl Azuz. First up, officials respond to

NPR 2009-07-25

President Obama expressed regret today for saying the Cambridge police acted stupidly when they arrested Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates last week. NPR's Scott Horsley has more. The President spoke by telephone with the police sergeant who arres

NPR 2009-05-17

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. President Obama has nominated Republican governor Jon Huntsman of Utah to be the next US ambassador to China. Huntsman has a strong background in Asia, including a stint as ambassador to Singapore. He

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经济学人: 海洋生物的隐身斗篷 (1)

THE ocean is dark and full of terrors, and the black dragonfish is the darkest of them all. 海洋中充满黑暗与恐惧，黑色的深海龙鱼是其中最黑暗的生物。 Its surface, new measurements reveal, is as black as the blackest materia

Rain-triggered farm produce price rise continues: MOC

BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- China's farm produce prices continued to rise last week in the wake of strong rainfall across the country, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Wednesday. The wholesale prices of 18 types of vegetables in 36 cities rose for

每日一词【532】sweep：扫地

今天我们要学的词是sweep。 Sweep, 大家都知道，是扫地的意思，不过，sweep还有另外一个意思，指赢得比赛的全部胜利。 Jamaica became the first nation in Olympic history to sweep the gold, silver and bronze medal

China on verge of another clean sweep at China Masters

CHANGZHOU, Jiangsu Province, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese badminton team were on verge of another clean sweep after last month's world championships as they had secured one-two in three of the five events on Saturday. Shuttlers from other teams could

Mudslides strand over 400 vehicles in Xinjiang

URUMQI, July 21 (Xinhua) -- More than 400 vehicles are stranded following rain-triggered mudslides that cut off multiple sections of a major road in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, border police said Saturday. Several stretches of

每日一词【288】trigger：扳机/引发

今天我们要学的词是trigger。 Trigger, 是扳机，作为动词，就是引发的意思。当年911恐怖袭击的画面会引起人们痛苦的回忆， Images of 9/11 are likely to trigger bad memories. 印尼外海发生的强烈地震引发

Typhoon-triggered rainstorm leaves 23 dead, 9 missing

WUHAN/SHENYANG/BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-three people have been confirmed dead and nine others remained missing after typhoons Damrey and Saola tore through China's eastern coastal regions over the weekend, local authorities said Monday. As

华为手机推出新功能:可当电子称使

Phones are gradually replacing a large number of everyday items and the latest household gadget under threat is the weighing scale. 手机逐渐取代我们生活中很多东西。而目前受到威胁的东西就是称。 Huawei recently unveiled a

Cold front to sweep China

BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- A cold front will sweep most parts of China over the next three days, bringing strong winds and temperature drops, the National Meteorological Center forecast Tuesday. From Wednesday to Friday, temperatures will drop from

TED演讲:如何构建对我们有利的人工智能(3)

I realized that, as I worked on improving AI task by task, dataset by dataset, 我了解到，当我努力在改善人工智能，一个任务一个任务、一个数据集一个数据集地改善， that I was creating massive gaps, holes and blind

Strong cold front to sweep China

Strong cold front to sweep China BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- A strong cold front coming from northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will drop temperatures in most parts of China in the next three days, the country's national observatory

Typhoon-triggered oil spill cleaned up in S China province

NANNING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- An oil spill triggered by typhoon Kai-Tak in the south China city of Beihai has been cleaned up, according to a local official. Typhoon Kai-Tak, the 13th tropical storm of the year, has left one dead and two missing in Gu

Cold snap to sweep through China

Cold snap to sweep through China BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- China's central and eastern regions will experience temperature drops in coming days, while the southern parts will receive moderate to heavy rain, the national meteorological watchdog for

Cold front to sweep most of China

BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- A strong cold front is expected to sweep most of China, dragging down temperatures by up to 14 degrees Celsius in some areas. The cold front will lower temperatures by 6 to 10 degrees Celsius in most parts of China during

潘基文担心宗教冲突

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday that he was profoundly troubled by what he witnessed on his just-completed visit to the violence-wracked Middle East, voicing fear that the tensions have the potentia

TED演讲:游戏奖励大脑的7种方式(3)

Now, I could make a game called Piecraft, 现在，我可以做一个游戏名为《馅饼争霸》 where all you had to do was get a million pies or a thousand pies. 在里面你要做的所有事就是得到一百万个馅饼或者一千个馅饼 T