奥运知识—橄榄枝棕榈叶松枝-古代奥运会奖品

At the modern Olympic Games, the first, second and third - placed athletes are rewarded, respectively, by gold, silver and bronze medals. At the Panhellenic Games, there was only one winner whose priz

NPR 2012-04-02

The Senate's top Republican is calling on his party to get behind the strongest presidential candidate and focus on winning in November. Mitch McConnell's comments come ahead of presidential primary voting in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of C

英语名篇名段背诵精华48 At the edge of the sea

At the Edge of the Sea The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and se a there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. Yet it is a world that keeps alive the sense of continuing creation and of the relentle

VOA标准英语2009年-Clean Water Project Improves Lives in Senegal

More than 13,000 people in northern Senegal now have ready access to safe drinking water thanks to a collaborative project between the government, Columbia University, and a U.S. manufacturer of plastic pipe. The project is having a big impact on th

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-04-10

1. With American flags in hands, tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the streets in downtown Dallas. The massive crowd is urging federal lawmakers to pass immigration reform that will legalize a

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-04-02

1. Former cabinet member and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson made it official today he is running for president in no wait. He calls himself the reliable conservative. Thompson was Health and Human Services Secretary in President Bush's first term

AP 2011-04-20

1. The confirmed death toll from wild storms in North Carolina has risen to more than 20. In Bladen County alone, 82 homes were damaged and 25 destroyed. At least 43 people died in three days of tornadoes from Oklahoma to Virginia. 2. New work rules

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Many Houses Did Hurricane Leave Standing In Port Salut, Haiti?

How Many Houses Did Hurricane Leave Standing In Port Salut, Haiti? play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0004:39repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Fla

万物简史 第488期:多灾多难的生命进程(8)

By combining their isotope findings with other fossil residuespollen levels and so on, 把对同位素测量的结果和能够说明其他情况（如花粉浓度等）的别的化石残留物结合起来， scientists can, with considerable confiden

英语听力：自然百科 爱情鸟

Here in an umbrella thorn tree, in Tanzania, Africa, some Fischer's lovebirds are looking for a nice hollow in which to nest and raise their young. The lovebird is a small stout member of the parrot family. They are like humans and their location is

【荆棘鸟】第三章 02

Built of butter-yellow sandstone blocks hand hewn in quarries five hundred miles eastward, the house had two stories and was constructed on austerely Georgian lines, with large, many-paned windows and a wide, iron-pillared veranda running all the way

2006年VOA标准英语-Christian Pilgrims Celebrate Palm Sunday

By Robert Berger Jerusalem 09 April 2006 Catholic priests carry palm fronds as they pass the temple, traditionally believed by Christians to hold the tomb of Jesus Christ, in the Church of the Holy Se

万物简史 第507期:丰富多彩的生命(3)

We wandered through a confusion of departments where people sat at large tables doing intent, 我们漫步穿过一个又一个部门，只见人们坐在大桌子跟前， investigative things with arthropods and palm fronds and boxes of yellowed bo

名篇背诵08:在海边

At the Edge of the Sea By Rachel Carson The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and se a there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. Yet it is a world that keeps alive the sense of continuing creation and

英语听书《海底两万里》第273期 第21章 在陆地上的两天(5)

We were overloaded when we arrived at the skiff. 当我们到了小艇，我们带回的东西实在太多了。 However, Ned Land still found these provisions inadequate. 可是尼德，兰觉得他的食物还不够。 But fortune smiled on him. Ju

万物简史 第390期:浩瀚的海洋(9)

Although Beebe nearly always gets the credit, 虽然功劳几乎总是归于毕比， it was in fact Barton who designed the first bathysphere (from the Greek word for deep) and funded the $12,000 cost of its construction. 但设计并出资1200美元来