VOA慢速英语2010年-Christmas 2010 in America: Three Stori

FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. This week on our program we hear from some Americans about Christmas past, present and future. (MUSIC) FAITH LAPIDUS: Jeffrey Davis remembers Christmas two years ago

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Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner: Roald Hoffmann I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe. On July 18, 1937 I was born in Zloczew, Poland. My family left Poland for Czechoslovakia in

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编者按： 如果你对当前中国那里所发生的种种感到兴趣，那么你便可说也活在中国；如果你对一本佳妙小说中的人物感到兴趣，你便是活在一批极有趣的人们中间；如果你能全神贯注地听点好

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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Charles Kao, of Standard Communications Labs in England and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and George Smith and Willard Boyle of Bell Labs in New Jersey. Kao figured out how to transmit light over long distanc

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We humans love to decorate things. We wear flashy clothes, tie ribbons to suitcases and personalize the cases for our iPhones. And apparently weve had this tendency for a long, long time. More than thirty-four thousand years, to be exact. Harvard res

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Clothing is so yesterday. I mean, really, what can it do? It cant pick up sound, or beep at us if somethings wrong. Or can it? M.I.T. researchers say theyve developed a fiber that would allow clothing to eventually do those things. Their study is in

2006年VOA标准英语-Mideast Diplomacy Intensifies While Attacks Con

By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 23 July 2006 Three senior European envoys held talks with Israeli officials ahead of a visit to the region by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. But as diplomacy intensifies to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah g

2006年VOA标准英语-Diplomacy to End Mideast Fighting Derailed by V

By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 30 July 2006 Lebanese hold a candlelit vigil in memory of at least 56 people - more than half of then children - who were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that crushed a building in the southern Lebanese village of Qana

2007年VOA标准英语-Analyst says Somalia a Handicap for Ethiopia

By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 28 March 2007 The al-Qaida terrorist organization has issued a call for Islamic extremists around the world to come to the aid of Somalis fighting the country's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and its chief backer in the r

VOA标准英语2009年-Somalia Leaders Race to Form Government, as Isl

Somalia's transitional leadership is struggling to form a new government, following the resignation of former president Abdullahi Yusuf, and trying to prevent Islamist extremists from taking control as Ethiopian troops withdraw. Somalia's two top le

VOA标准英语2009年-Somalia Analyst Says Al-Qaida- Linked Group Not

A former U.S. diplomat and a leading analyst on Somalia says the power and influence of the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group are diminishing, not increasing as some U.S. intelligence officials have recently warned. In an article featured in this mont

经济学人146:一个不那么难的移植

Science and technology 科学和技术 Medical technology 医疗技术 A not-so-hard graft 一个不那么难的移植 Transplantable blood vessels can now be grown as desired 可移植的血管现可随意培育 The old-fashioned way 古老的方式

pbs高端访谈:女性在“原子城”的绝密任务

GWEN IFILL:Finally tonight, the tale of a top-secret town with a top-secret mission and the women who made history there. Ray Suarez has our book conversation. RAY SUAREZ:During the mid-1940s, thousands of young women got offers of good-paying jobs w

EDUCATION REPORT - Washington University in St. Louis Forms

EDUCATION REPORT - Washington University in St. Louis Forms Program With Asian Schools By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Thursday, November 03, 2005 This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Educat

2007年VOA标准英语-Astronomers Search for Origin of What Cannot be

By Jessica Berman Washington 14 September 2007 Scientists have known for some time that most of the stuff in the Universe is so-called dark matter, material that cannot be seen directly because it does not interact with light. That makes it very diff

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In a bid to cash in on the latest beauty trend of consuming collagen, Japanese company Suntory Holdings Ltd' has released a special brew of collagen-infused beer. 为了在最近胶原蛋白美容的风潮中谋利，日本三得利公司（Suntory H

美国语文第六册 第62期:墓地挽歌(4)

The applause of listening senates to command, 欲赢得伸耳谛听的元老们的掌声， The threats of pain and ruin to despise, 痛苦和存亡的威胁全然不顾， To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, 把富庶洒向风景明媚的大地，

TED演讲:让现代社会中的老人生活的更好(5)

Some abilities, of course, decrease with age. 当然，一些能力会随着年龄的增长而变差。 Those include abilities at tasks 这些包括完成 requiring physical strength and stamina, 需要体力和耐力， ambition, and the power of n

英语听力文摘 English Digest 421、植皮有新招

Silkworm s and Skin Graft s Don: One of the neater things thats going on in biology is the genetic modification of species. By changing the instructions in their genes, we can make certain plants and animals produce things that are useful to humans.