SPEAKING EFFECTIVE AMERICAN ENGLISH

There are six characteristics of speech, all of which are vital to speak effectively. In this section we'll look at each of them separately. These speech characteristics are basically important to you

THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

BY STEPHEN R .COVEEY The first habit is 1)proactivity. Be proactive. The word proactivity is fairly common in management literature, but you won't find it in the dictionary. It means more than merely

听电影学英语-生活大爆炸第一季 10．The Loobenfeld Decay(Loobenfeld衰变)

[00:02.68]no,see,the liquid-metal termators were created in the future by skynet, 不对 液态金属人是在未来由天网创造 [00:06.60]and skynet was developed by miles dyson, 而天网是由Miles Dyson开发 [00:08.64]but that future no longe

Composting

By Gary Garriott Broadcast: July 22, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Many farmers around the world are 1)composting to improve their soil so they can produc

万花筒 2008-06-10&-06-11

Countdown to the Olympics,the Beijing Zoo introduces eight Olympic pandas that will be on display through this summer's games.Visitors waited in long lines to buy tickets to the renovated panda hall at the zoo where the animals will be held in a newl

2007年VOA标准英语-Hypnosis - Effective Pain Reliever for Breast C

By Melinda Smith Washington 31 August 2007 Centuries ago doctors used hypnosis to help relieve the excruciating pain of surgery. It then fell out of favor with the introduction of anesthesia. Now as VOA's Melinda Smith reports, new studies show a hos

SSS 2009-07-23

This is Scientific Ameicans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Would you mind telling me what this is all about, Mister? No problem, Captain. A study in the Journal of Applied Physiology shows that artificial gravity should prevent a b

英语诗歌:To Daffodils

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his Noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the Even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you

VOA标准英语2008年-Triple-Drug Therapy Found Most Effective Agains

By Jessica Berman Washington 14 May 2008 Researchers have determined that commonly prescribed triple-drug combination therapies that use old antiviral drugs are the most effective for suppressing the deadly virus that causes AIDS. The findings have m

北师大版高中英语模块7--Unit 21 Lesson1-3

[00:01.17]It has also been proven that chewing gum [00:03.50]for long periods of time means [00:05.48]that the body does not have time to rest. [00:07.72]If this is the case, [00:08.95]the stomach may become tense. [00:10.85]Eventually this could lea

北师大版高中英语模块7--Unit 21 Lesson1-1

[00:02.81]Unit 21 Human Biology Lesson 1 Chewing Gum [00:09.19]TO CHEW OR NOT TO CHEW... [00:12.21]Diet specialists regularly inform us [00:14.82]that it is important to chew our food properly. [00:17.74]They suggest that if we chew our food [00:19.7

英文摇滚歌曲：As I Lay Dying - The Only Constant Is Change

The only constant is change The only constant is change, go The human heart is born without legs Sliding back and forth And never once does it truly rest Unless accompanied by death Sliding back and forth Even the strongest Remnants of history They h

美国国家公共电台 NPR Peter Singer: How Can We Be More Effective Altruists?

GUY RAZ, HOST: I want to ask you about this really famous Talmudic notion - actually, it might be that in the Quran as well - but this idea that, you know, if you save a single life, then you have saved all of humanity. You know that one? PETER SINGE

used to 的用法

used to v used （否定式简写为usedn't）过去经常，以前常常 Weusedtogothereeveryyear. 我每年都去那儿。 Heisnotwhatheusedtobe. 他已不是旧日的他了。 Itusedtobebelievedtha

The Blue Suit

A woman went into a funeral home to make arrangements for her husband's funeral. She told the director that she wanted her husband to be buried in a dark blue suit. He asked, Wouldn't it just be easier to bury him in the black suit that he's wearing?

Plastic pollution

Plastic Pollution NB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript Dan: Hello and welcome 6 Minute English from the BBC. Im Dan Walker Smith and today Im joined by Kate. Kate: Hello Dan. Dan: Now today Kate and I are talking about pollution. Kate

天籁音乐:Crooked Still-Florence

Crooked Still，04年成立的乡村乐队，没有吉他贝斯，歌曲中洋溢的是提琴、班卓琴的精致旋律，女声清甜可人，这首Florence的前奏总让人觉得非常熟悉，似乎是回荡在记忆中很久远了的音乐。 F

精彩托福句子 2

11.Acids are chemical compounds that,in water solution,have a sharp taste， a corrosive action on metals,and the ability to turn certain blue vegetable dyes red. 12.Billie Holiday's reputation as a great jazz-blues singer rests on her ability to giv

还记得你的初“智齿”吗？

还记得f(x)最新主打曲目《初智齿》吗?初恋就像长智齿一样，会疼但却是必然要经历的。今天带大家学习一下智齿用英文怎么说?在生活中学英语，一定要慢慢积累哦。 智齿的英文怎么说? wisd

英国发明牙齿治疗新技术

LONDON, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Drillings and fillings at the dentist's are always dreadful and make tooth decay treatment very unpleasant. But British scientists have developed a new approach of fixing tooth decay, which could get rid of all the drillin