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如果达尔文主义的最终结局不是人类意识会怎么样?在玉米支配地球的精明策略游戏中,如果我们都只是棋子呢?作家Michael Pollan主张我们从植物的视角去看待这个世界。

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(339) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:生态谜云

A mentor is someone who teaches or advises a younger person with less experience. January is National Mentoring Month in the United States. This is a time for calling attention to the value of mentoring. Some mentoring programs connect adults with ch

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EXPLORATIONS - Three Innovators Who Changed the History of Sound and Communication Technologies STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell about three inventors wh

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By Peter Fedynsky Kyiv 01 October 2007 An early exit poll for the special Ukrainian parliamentary election shows the party of President Viktor Yushchenko coming in a distant third against the political organization of the man he defeated for the pres

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(298) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

We can use comparative adverbs to show change or to make comparisons: 我们可以用比较性副词体现改变或比较两者的不同: I forget things more often nowadays. She began to speak more quickly. They are working harder now. We often us

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图片1 图片2 by Jason Marshall In the last article, we discovered that integers alone are not sufficient to fully describe the world around uswe need the fractions existing between the integers too. (In learning that, we also learned that fraction

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Jim Malone Despite a difficult last few weeks in Iraq and continuing questions about how and why the Bush administration took the country to war there, the president's public approval ratings have gon

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(311) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--美国大选

By Steve Herman Thimpu, Bhutan 21 May 2007 To the outside world the small Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan is regarded as a modern-day Shangri-La. Nestled along the eastern side of the Himalayas, wedged between Tibet and India, Bhutan sees few outsiders. A

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A: I'm really happy that you came to visit me. B: I really missed you a lot. A: I've been missing you like crazy. B: I don't understand why you haven't come to visit me. A: Lately, I've been quite busy. B: Tell me what you've been up to. A: I've real

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(279) / 评论(0) 分类 英语闲谈

A: I'm really glad that you came to see me. B: I had to. I was missing you a lot. A: I was missing you too. B: So, why haven't you visited me? A: I've actually been busy lately. B: What have you been doing? A: I've just been working really hard. B: I

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(316) / 评论(0) 分类 英语闲谈

A: Thanks for coming to see me today. B: It's no problem. I was really missing you anyway. A: I missed you too. B: Why haven't you tried to come see me then? A: I've been really busy. B: Doing what? A: Working. B: I would've come to see you sooner, b

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(326) / 评论(0) 分类 英语闲谈

A: I have a question about extra people living with me in my apartment. B: You may have one roommate, but they need to have an approved application on file with us. A: What about overnight guests? B: An occasional overnight guest is not a problem. A:

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(258) / 评论(0) 分类 地道英语对话-租房

A: Can I have roommates in my apartment? B: You may have one roommate, but they need to pass a credit check. A: Can overnight guests stay with me? B: You may have an overnight guest, but they may not stay for an extended period of time. A: How long c

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A: What about roommates in my apartment? B: You may have one roommate, but their name must appear on the lease. A: Can I have someone visit me for a short period of time? B: We understand that a family member or friend may visit from time to time. Ju

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(286) / 评论(0) 分类 地道英语对话-租房

A U.S. Congressional delegation is in Iraq to meet with the country's interim government leaders and U.S. military commanders. Amid continuing violence, the senators say Iraq still needs U.S. and coalition support, and vowed to see the job through. 一

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(252) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 Bilingual News

Triceratops protects itself with a bony shield called a frill. They can fend off an attacker with a pair of one-meter-long swords. Youve got to crush it. The only way to deal with this huge, curved, cantilevered, composite armor is a crushing blow wi

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 27 February 2008 A new poll in Israel says a majority of Israelis would support holding talks with Hamas Islamic militants who control the Gaza Strip. VOA's Jim Teeple reports an Israeli civilian was killed by a rocket fired b

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(290) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

By Peterson Ssendi Kampala,Uganda 02 June 2007 Many Pentecostal churches in Kampala invite the afflicted to be cured. Mrs. Frances Adroa, who is HIV-positive, took them up on the offer. I am a sick person (I have HIV AIDS) so,she explains, I was prom

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(283) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(六月)

Republican presidential nominee John McCain has shaken up the race for the White House and pumped new excitement into his campaign by choosing Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine takes a loo

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(275) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

By Gary Thomas Washington 11 February 2008 A new poll released ahead of next Monday's parliamentary elections in Pakistan shows a sharp drop in the popularity of President Pervez Musharraf, and a steep rise in support for opposition parties. As VOA c

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学英语单词
abominable snowmen
aboral tentacle
Abruzzi ware
acceptor bond
Akbarabad
argument of perihelion
astro-geodetic net adjustment
audiofidelity
B. I. R.
back double biceps
Balkan Entente
be weaned on
BeanShell
Bernicians
blade roasts
burma mahogany
C. difficile
co-inventors
comes to grips
continuous foundation
cuckooness
damping agent
debt structure
Demethyllineomycin
devinney
difference triangle
dissolving-air tank
effective devaluation
environmental impact of interbasin water transfer project
equality
garnachas
glucose 1-phosphate1-
goetschy
gone dark
gothardite
gravity value
green manure crops
harbor defense
hepcin
high-energy short-pulse flashlamp
hipped end
hooliganry
interactive cable television
inverse Landau damping
Jasol
jouberts
Kambimbi
Kispiox
Koran thumping
labor value
leather apron
linear fraction transformation
liquid light pelpolatum
Lloyd,(John) Selwyn (Brooke)
local system
lutation
mazoplasia
mercantile fleet
metacrolein
metapleure
microbiological free air
Mogliano
molybdenum hemitrisulfide
monkey-faced owl
movable receiver
neoplastic endocrine-like syndrome
niobic
nonwovens
offence against dead bodies
otocyst
outbalances
peilicula water
plumbicon tube
point collocation
polychroic
poop down
power contactor
productive pulmonary tuberculosis
rain-slickened
representative circulating
resistance furnace installation
reversionary lease
rhodium disulfide
sailplaning
season with
Seller Glacier
septa secundum
SFLA
Sovetabad
sporadic fault
succubas
syringomyelic dissociation
tapered aileron
tear-gassing
trigonal prism
turnaround loop
v-shaped isobar
vapor locking
Viola schneideri
yellowroot
zirconium beryllide