【听英文对话做选择】日食

On December 25, 2000, many people across North America received a rare Christmas treat when the moon passed in front of the sun resulting in a partial solar eclipse. Solar eclipses occur when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, and the moo

Earth and Sky:Spider Widows 蜘蛛寡妇

Spider Widows 蜘蛛寡妇 Spiders give many of us the shivers, though they usually leave people alone. Sometimes these spectacular predators instead prey on each other. Learn more about when spiders serve themselves as dinner -- today on Earth and Sky.

SSS 2011-11-21

Male nursery web spiders often woo potential lady-friends with gifts wrapped in silk. Mating may ensue, during which a female unspools the present, expecting to find a tasty treat. But the males can be unscrupulous. Some offerings contain inedible pl

SSS 2012-02-22

This is Scientific American 60 second science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? The most common types of ingested birth control contain estrogen. But the hormone doesnt just prevent human babies. It may be lowering numbers of frog babies, t

【英语时差8,16】蚊子爱言论

Is there any sound more annoying than the whine of a [dict]mosquito[/dict]? Yes, mosquitoes are pests through and through. But there's more to their irritating whine than meets the ear. For mosquitoes, that's the sound of love. It's well known by sci

国家地理-2008-07-03 Mating Moments 求偶时刻

Ok, here is the clinic for you guys out there on the Dos and Donts of finding emotional joy and carnal fulfillment in its most primitive form, if you get my drift. This male wildebeest dashes up to this herd of females, oblivious to the fact that ot

国家地理:Octopus Mating 章鱼交配

OK, we are back in the world of the Cyanea octopus. It's mating time. Here's your potential conquest. She doesn't know you're alive. She's too busy cleaning trash from her house. Now you are the perceptive type. You use your sensitive disks for any s

国家地理:Animal Mating: Blue-Footed Boobies 蓝脚鲣鸟

The mating ritual of each species on Earth has certain, well, peculiarities. As you might tell it from the name of the species itself, blue-footed boobies are no exception to this rule. Here in the Galapagos Islands, this pair of blue-footed boobies

基因决定了你配偶的类型

Chances are, youre going to marry someone a lot like you. Similar intelligence, similar height, similar body weight. A new study of tens of thousands of married couples suggests that this isnt an accident. We dont marry educated people because we hap

TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(2)

How is technology changing love? I'm going to say almost not at all. 科技改变了爱吗？我认为没有。 I study the brain. I and my colleagues have put over 100 people into a brain scanner 我从事大脑研究。我和我的同事们对100多人

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-09-21

1. The Bush administration and Congress are working through the weekend to hammer out a Wall Street rescue plan. President Bush is asking lawmakers to let the government buy 700 billion dollars in bad mortgages from US financial institutions for the

Ring of Fire Eclipse Passes Over Africa

AS IT IS 2016-09-02 Ring of Fire Eclipse Passes Over Africa People in parts of Africa witnessed a ring of fire in the sky Thursday, created by the moon passing between the Earth and the sun. The solar event is called an annular eclipse. A total solar

英语听力：自然百科 Mating Moments 求偶时刻

Ok, here is the clinic for you guys out there on the Dos and Donts of finding emotional joy and carnal fulfillment in its most primitive form, if you get my drift. This male wildebeest dashes up to this herd of females, oblivious to the fact that oth

【英语语言学习】TED演讲

I have a daughter, Mulan. And when she was eight, last year, she was doing a report for school or she had some homework about frogs. And we were at this restaurant, and she said, So, basically, frogs lay eggs and the eggs turn into tadpoles, and tadp

VOA标准英语2010年-Total Solar Eclipse Over Southern Hemi

An annular solar eclipse is seen formed over the sky of Burma's ancient historic city of Bagan, 15 Jan 2010 Holly Gilbert, an astrophysicist at NASA, explains the science behind the spectacle of the sun's disappearance. So during a total solar eclips

水泥英文单词

水泥英文单词 矿渣水泥slag cement 硅酸盐水泥portland cement 主导产品leading product 年产量annual output 基准reference 体系system 完全燃烧complete combustion 不完全燃烧incomplete combustion 机械不完全燃烧mechanical incomplete combustion 化学不完全燃烧

女性天生有“出轨基因”

Women are 'genetically programmed to have affairs' 女性天生有出轨基因 Women are predisposed by their genetics to have affairs as back-up plans' if their relationships fail, according to a research paper. 研究结果表明，如果恋爱或者

英文摇滚歌曲：Lordi - Who′s Your Daddy

Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah All the vixens stand in line Waiting for my fright night Be the new flesh for the sacrifice Screaming out the mating call I've become the lord of love I break your will I'll break your will for good I

TED演讲:恋爱中的大脑(2)

We found activity in a tiny, little factory near the base of the brain 我们发现在大脑底部附近有一块活跃的微小的区域 called the ventral tegmental area. 腹侧背盖区。 We found activity in some cells called the A10 cells, 其中

【英语时差8,16】蜗牛（上）

No matter the species, mating rituals are pretty weird. Take the praying mantis. After an intimate tryst, the female mantis bites its partners head off. But when it comes to sexual hijinks, nothing beats the garden snail. During sex, garden snails of