疯狂情景会话真功夫 71.Windflowers

Windflowers, windflowers [00:02.43]风飞花，风飞花 [00:04.86]My father told me not to go near them [00:07.46]父亲对我说别走近它 [00:10.06]He said he feared them always [00:11.49]他说他总有些害怕 [00:12.93]And he told me that th

大学英语四级词汇 082

useless 无用的，没有价值的 user 用户，使用者 usual 通常的，平常的 usually 通常 utility 效用，实用 utilise 实用 utilize 利用 utmost 极度的，极端的，极限 utter 完全的，彻底的说 vacant 空闲的，空缺的

Are Brazil’s Rainforests in Danger?

The United Nations Climate Summit takes place next week in Poland. About 20,000 people from 190 countries are expected to take part in the conference. There, world leaders will debate how to limit climate change -- the weather events linked to slowly

SSS 2008-08-25

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute? For accurate weather forecasting and climate analysis, researchers need the best models possible about how the air circulates above the earth. And a new study is challe

SSS 2009-05-07

Rainforests exist because it rains a lot and that makes forests grow, right? Well, not so fast. What if its not the rain that makes the forests? What if its the forests that actually generate the rain? That is the contention of a paper in BioScience

英文短文：The Salinity of Ocean Waters

The Salinity of Ocean Waters If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only slightly from place to place. Nevertheless, some of these small changes are important. There are three basic processes that cause a change in oceanic s

英文摇滚歌曲：5 Seconds Of Summer - Vapor

I'll take what you got got got I know it's not a lot lot lot Cause I just need another hit You're the thing that I can't quit You got what I want want want Here and then you're gone gone gone If you told me that we were through You know that I would

世界小史 第78期:火山地区

As sometimes happens in volcanic regions, there was a fissure in the ground from which vapor issued. 像在火山地区常见的那样, 蒸汽使地面产生裂缝。 If anyone inhaled it, it literally clouded their mind. It was as if they were drunk

电子香烟惹争议

电子香烟惹争议 Should electronic cigarettes be a new option for smokers trying to kick the habit? Reactions from Americans are mixed. More than half of people questioned in a poll think electronic cigarettes should be regulated by the US Food

voa标准英语2008-Resurgent Russia Poses Challenge for Obama Admin

One of the key foreign policy questions facing the incoming Obama administration is how to deal with a resurgent Russia? Most analysts agree that after Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th U.S. president on January 20, his administration's main chal

本世纪末全球气温至少上升4摄氏度

科学家估计，如果不减少二氧化碳排放，2100年地球平均气温将至少上升4摄氏度，到2200年会上升8摄氏度，无疑是地球灾难性的噩梦。 此前有科学家用气候模型分析称，全球气温将受二氧化碳排

旅游人们最爱带啥? 国人大爱方便面

Forget flip flops and sun tan lotion, it's coffee and ketchup that holidaymakers consider their packing essentials, according to a new study. 一项最新研究显示，度假行李中的必备物品根本不是人字拖和防晒霜，而是咖啡和番

Vast water vapor beyond solar system found

BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- A team of European researchers announced that they have found vast water vapor out of our solar system, according to a study in the U.S. journal Science Friday. Using Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency

美国语文第六册 第49期:生命之虚妄(1)

Man, born of woman, is of a few days, and full of trouble; 人从呱呱落地，只是短暂的几天，麻烦不断； He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down; 他初如鲜花哪堪折； He fleeth also as a shadow, 像影子一样循去， And

英语小达人 299 What the Student Say in Science Classes

What the Student Say in Science Classes 自然科学课上学生们都说了什么 The following quotations were gleaned from classroom discussions in 5th and 6th grade science classes. 下面的这些话都是从五六年级的自然科学课的课堂

万物简史 第386期:浩瀚的海洋(5)

There are 320 million cubic miles of water on Earth and that is all we're ever going to get. 地球上有13亿立方公里水，这是全部。 The system is closed: practically speaking, nothing can be added or subtracted. 系统已经关闭，说得明

英语听书《白鲸记》第785期

I know not that any other author has hinted of the matter; 我不知道是否有其他作家提及此事， but by inference it seems to me that the sturgeon must be divided in the same way as the whale, 不过据我推断，鲟鱼也一定是按大鲸

英语听书《白鲸记》第740期

For d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor. 因为，你知道，晴朗的天气决不会有虹彩；虹彩是专为照耀雾气才出来的。 And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, 因此，

你是否还会坚持原来的样子

Surmounting Life's Obstacles - Do You Cling to What You Were Before? 跨越生命中的障碍 您还坚持原来的样子吗? A little stream flowed down from a high mountain far, far away through many villages and forests, until it reached a desert.

英语听书《白鲸记》第324期

He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed his soul, 他是在对他那烟斗斧发狂思,那东西,在我们直接注意这个熟睡的索匠的时候,好