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英文杂志-Tobacco

Being old is when you know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions. (Anonymous) Six months before she died, my grandmother moved into an old people's home and I visited her there when I was in Britain. She was sitting in the living room wi

英国学生科学读本 第92期:一盒火柴(2)

The little splints of wood which we call matches are made out of deal or pine wood which has been soaked in melted paraffin wax to make it burn more easily. 这种被我们称之为火柴的薄木片由欧洲赤松（松树）制成, 在液体的石蜡

英文书摘精选 Matches火柴

Have you ever had a problem getting a match to light? If so, you might be using the wrong type of match. There are actually two different types of matches: safety matches and strike-anywhere matches. 以前你点燃火柴时有没有点不着的时候呢

如何成为福尔摩斯 第18期

These were permissive times, and in 1970, one legendary director finally brought his long-harboured homage of Holmes to the screen. 当时性风气相当开放。1970年，一位传奇导演终于将他对福尔摩斯的长久敬意搬上了银幕。

CNN 2010-10-09

This town here has sort of been going through clean-up. People are trying to salvage things from their houses, but the reality is when you talk to them, there's nothing they can salvage when has been touched by this red toxic chemical mix. People sho

SSS 2010-12-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Life on earth requires six basic ingredientscarbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorus. Those six elements are the building blocks for DNA and R

NPR 2010-12-03

The US House is expected to vote this hour on whether to extend expiring tax cuts for everyone, including the wealthy. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports the issue's been generating heated debate. Democrats say they want to keep lower tax rates from middl

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A acceptable daily intake (ADI) 每人每日容许摄入量 acclimatization 气候适应 accumulate 蓄积 acetylandromedol 乙酰柽木醇毒 acceptable risk level 可接受的危险水平 acid-forming food 成酸性食品 Achromobacterium 无色菌属 Act for preventing the adulterati

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Hogs at an Ohio farm Research shows that waste from pigs that are fed a special kind of corn may help a farmer's crops. And it also may help the environment. Any farmer who raises swine knows that

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 18 July 2007 Officials in Ukraine are assessing the damage of a train crash in western Ukraine that sent huge clouds of burning phosphorus billowing into the air. The accident, which took place Monday, is raising health conce

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Figure Out How To Cheaply Fix Algae Blooms And Win $10 Million

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Summertime brings algae blooms to many parts of the country - those mats of bright green organisms that can blanket waterways. In places like Florida's Lake Okeechobee, the blooms hurt tourism. They kill fish. They threaten w

TED演讲：温和的成功哲学(7)

And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. 我去找他们聊聊西方艺术中最伟大的几个悲剧故事。 I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, 我想知道他们会如何露

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The commercial potential for the stuffwhich soon became known as phosphorus, from Greek and Latin roots meaning light bearingwas not lost on eager businesspeople, but the difficulties of manufacture made it too costly to exploit. An ounce of phosphor

园艺专业英语

A alternate bearing 大小年结果 amendment 调理剂 ample 充足的 anatomical 解剖的 aneuploid 非整倍性（的） anion 阴离子 annual 一年生植物，一季生植物 anther 花粉囊，花药 anthocyanin [植]炭疽病 antibiotic 抗生

如果特朗普是种食物,他是啥

If President Donald Trump were a food, what food would he be? 如果特朗普是种食物，他会是啥？ If Trump were a food hed be a creampuff filled with poisoned and infectious cream filling. The gooey cream would be chock full of lead, mercur

报告指出 北京雾霾毒性已经有所下降

The proportion of hazardous metal toxins in PM2.5 in Beijing has decreased for the past three years, which experts lauded as the initial achievement of the city's anti-smog measures. 过去三年，北京市PM2.5中对人体有害的金属毒素的比重

Get enough sleep

Get enough sleep I have a theory about sleep. My theory is this: everyone who routinely uses an alarm clock suffers from chronic sleep deprivation. Using an alarm clock a few times a year (to catch a plane or have a phone call with someone in another

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Matches Striking matches, on this Moment of Science. Have you ever had a problem getting a match to light? If so, you might be using the wrong type of match. There are actually two different types of matches: safety matches and strike-anywhere matche