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electricity The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flic

04 Electricity

04 Electricity The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope(摸索) abo

印度发明家把污染转变成墨水

Indian Inventors Turn Pollution into Ink Workers at an Indian start-up company are busy cutting up pieces of metal and using them to make unusual devices. Company officials say these devices will capture smoke from diesel generators and turn it into

SSS 2011-03-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. This will just take a minute. The type of accident that is occurring in Japan is known as the station blackout: loss of off-site AC powerpower lines are downand then a subsequent fail

NPR 2008-12-13

The White House says it's exploring new options to save the auto industry after a 14-billion-dollar bailout bill collapsed in the Senate yesterday. Congressional Democrats want the Bush Administration to act quickly. NPR's Debbi Elliot reports. Whit

VOA慢速英语 2007 1002a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Biodiesel is made from plant oils or animal fats. Producers of this renewable fuel often use oils like soybean or palm oil. But a wild plant called Jatropha curcas (JAT-ruh-fuh KUR-kas) is getting

目前,在美国南部,较少的能量由煤产生

AS IT IS 2016-11-28 Less Energy Now Produced by Coal in US South 目前,在美国南部,较少的能量由煤产生 Three large machines called turbines produce electricity at the Buck Combined Cycle Station in central North Carolina, near the town o

孙燕姿的“绿光”真实存在

还记得孙燕姿那首红遍大江南北的《绿光》吗？翻越过前面山顶、层层白云，绿光在哪里？不知道有多少人跟小编一样，以为歌里的绿光只是对幸福的比喻。而其实在现实中，绿光是真实存在

万物简史 第21期:如何营造一个宇宙(13)

The analogy that is usually given for explaining the curvature of space is to try to imagine someone from a universe of flat surfaces, who had never seen a sphere, being brought to Earth. No matter how far he roamed across the planet's surface, he wo

中国派遣救援队前往尼泊尔

The death toll from Saturday's earthquake in Nepal has climbed to over 3,000. An intensified rescue and relief effort is underway. As CRI's Huang Shan reports, at least three Chinese aid teams are joining the effort in Nepal, together with other inte

京津冀协同规划电力建设

The two municipalities and one province have launched a project to build wind, photovoltaic and power storage stations. Zhangjiakou, a city in Hebei province, boasts more than 6,000 hours of effective winds annually and 3,000 hours of sunshine annual

中国的风力发电厂问题难解

Chinas wind farms have long had a cloud hanging over them: not enough of their clean energy is consumed. That seems odd; a combination of rapid urbanisation and thousands of coal-fired power stations makes for severe pollution problems, which the sta

英国皇家海军最先进驱逐舰怕热

The engines powering the Royal Navys cutting-edge fleet of Type 45 destroyers are unable to operate continuously in the warm waters of the Gulf, MPs were told on Tuesday. 周二，英国国会议员们被告知，英国皇家海军(Royal Navy)最先进

New policies support ailing solar industry

New policies support ailing solar industry BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- China is creating supportive measures to shore up its ailing photovoltaic (PV) industry, which has been rocked by recent U.S. duties on Chinese exports over alleged dumping. In t

TED演讲:关于人性名利和爱(5)

Four years ago, my lovely wife Gauri and me decided to have a third child. 四年前，我和我太太高丽决定要第三个孩子。 It was claimed on the net that he was the love child of our first child who was 15 years old. 结果网上居然说，

双语有声阅读：电

Electricity The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flick

India Facing First Drought in Three Years

India is facing its first drought in three years, with this year's monsoon rains down by nearly 20 percent. In a report issued late Thursday, the Indian Meteorological Department said more than half of India has received deficient rainfall between Ju

你会用英语跟别人侃大山吗？

你会用英语跟别人侃大山吗？ (2008-11-04 09:26:14) 生活中绝大部分的开口说话都是在非正式场合。除了正经八百的商务会谈，你会跟老外闲聊侃大山吗？Small talk skills are not so easy to handle. Don't wo

中国将完成减排目标

The report, titled China's Response to Climate Change Policy and Action in 2015 is an assessment of the steps that have been taken to both reduce emissions and clean up the air in the country. Among the achievements laid-out in the analysis, the gove

经济学人:苹果在中国 与腾讯的应用之战(2)

Hostilities have now broken out with Tencent. 现在，苹果公司已对腾讯有所不满。 The two had co-existed happily: since richer Chinese prefer iPhones to Android phones, these devices are where WeChat made much of its money. 腾讯和苹果