有声英文阅读-欧洲国家的老龄化

Aging in European Countries We have to realise how old, how very old, we are. Nations are classified as

Health Experts Detail Radiation Symptoms

U.S. health experts monitoring Japan's nuclear crisis are seeking to explain health risks from radiation（放射） exposure, while cautioning that radiation levels measured this week at the Fukushima-Daiichi power plant in northern Japan have not y

越来越多的人来到美国休斯敦

AS IT IS 2016-04-08 More People Move to Houston in US 越来越多的人来到美国休斯敦 More people moved to the Houston, Texas area in one year than to any other metropolitan area in the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau recently released

TED演讲：学校扼杀创造力(8)

And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, 第二点，学术能力已经成为衡量好学生的主要标准， because the universities designed the system in their image. 这种标准是那些大学

经济学人144:中国计划生育政策

China's family planning 中国计划生育政策 Illegal children will be confiscated 违法生育就没收孩子 The one-child policy is not just a human-rights abomination; it has also worsened a demographic problem 独生子女政策不仅在人权方

经济学人:以色列和巴勒斯坦 僵局再起

Israel and Palestine 以色列和巴勒斯坦 Take a break 僵局再起 The two-state solution is still the only one that makes sense. But it won't happen this time round 目前两国制仍是解决巴以问题的唯一方式，但这一次依然无法

经济学人:斯洛文尼亚 美丽背后蕴藏危机

Slovenia 斯洛文尼亚 Very European 浓郁的欧洲色彩 Slovenias first big crisis since independence 斯洛文尼亚独立后首遇大危机 Beautiful but angry 美丽表面蕴藏危机 Slovenes have always felt rather pleased with themselves.

英语词汇分类：家庭计划

population studies 人口研究 demography 人口学 demographer 人口学家 population theory 人口理论 Malthusianism 马尔萨斯主义 neo-Malthusianism 新马尔萨斯主义 overpopulation 人口

WHO Warns Against Self-Medication as Antidote to Radiation

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns against the indiscriminate(任意的无差别的) use of potassium iodide as a precaution against nuclear radiation. WHO is issuing this advisory following reports of people in Japan and elsewhere who are usi

Japanese Radiation Adviser Quits in Rebuke

A key Japanese adviser on radiation（放射 ） leaks at the country's disabled Fukushima nuclear power facility has quit in protest over the government's handling of the disaster. The adviser, Toshiso Kosako, a radiation safety expert at the Univer

food from Japan to be tested for radiation

NEW DELHI, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The Indian government has ordered food originating from（发源于） Japan to be tested for radiation in the wake of explosions at a Japanese nuclear plant following a devastating earthquake-tsunami last Friday, repo

经济学人280:美国退役士兵归国后面临的困难

American veterans 美国退役士兵 A hard homecoming 归途漫漫 Budget battles and a stagnant economy greet Americas soldiers as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan 美国士兵从战火纷飞的伊拉克和阿富汗回到家乡后，迎接他们

U.S. finds low levels of radiation in milk

WASHINGTON, March 30 (Xinhua) -- A trace amount of radioactive(辐射性的) iodine（碘） has been found in a sample of milk from the west state of Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sai

经济学人197:美国南方的家务 帮佣不再是仆人

Domestic work in the South 美国南方的家务 The Help, updated 升级的帮佣 Maids are no longer servants 帮佣不再是仆人 UNDER segregation, black women were so rigidly excluded from good jobs that 60% of those who were employed in 1940 w

经济学人217:人口统计学 时髦与蹒跚齐行

Demography 人口统计学 Hip and hobbling 时髦与蹒跚齐行 Not all towns are desperate to attract young people 并不是所有城镇都渴望吸引年轻人 Nationally, an ageing population is a problem. But locally it can be a boon. The over-

经济学人:移民到苏格兰 希望你早先就已到达

Immigration in Scotland 移民到苏格兰 Wish you were here 希望你早先就到这了 Immigration worries Scots less than other Britons, but that could change 相比英国其他地区，移民较少担心苏格兰人（排外），但这种情况可

经济学人:朝鲜经济:下一个越南？别指望了(2)

Nevertheless North Korea is different from Vietnam in three ways that could hurt. 不过朝鲜和越南存在三方面的不同点，这或许对朝鲜而言是个打击。 In Vietnam's south, its economic heartland, collectivisation of farms and fac

经济学人:商业街 陌生的城市

High streets 商业街 Strange town 陌生的城市 Why some streets in London stay resolutely the same 为何伦敦仍执拗地保持部分街道不变样 KENTISH TOWN ROAD is a humdrum high street in north London. It contains pawnbrokers, pound sho

经济学人298:美国种族问题 弗格森市的暴怒

Race in America 美国种族问题 The fury of Ferguson 弗格森市的暴怒 Race is America's deepest problem, but multiple small changes can mitigate it 种族问题是美国最根深蒂固的问题，但各种细微的改变可以使之缓解。

经济学人:代代叠加:庞氏骗局(2)

A second consideration is demography. 第二个考虑是人口。 A growing population creates a natural pyramid scheme. 不断增长的人口创造出一个天然的金字塔式的骗局。 Each cohort of participants will receive the money contribu