Where Are the Tallest Buildings in the World?

Skyscrapers look like their name: They are buildings so high; it appears like they are scraping, or touching the sky. With better technology, architects people who design buildings engineers and builders have been able to build buildings higher and h

EXPLORATIONS - South Street Seaport Museum Offers a Living L

EXPLORATIONS - South Street Seaport Museum Offers a Living Link With the Past By Paul Thompson Broadcast: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: The Peking, one the ships at the South Street

英语听力—环球英语 1421 Beautiful Buildings of Brasilia

Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Voice 2 And Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 A building stands against a bright bl

Take Away English-Viking Ship Discovered 刚被发现的海盗船

The Viking longship might have looked like this. A 1,000-year-old Viking longship is thought to have been discovered under a pub car park on Merseyside. The vessel is believed to lie beneath 2 metres to 3 metres of clay by the Railway Inn in Meols,

CCTV9英语新闻：Egyptian students torch two buildings on university campus

By CCTV correspondent Yasser Hakim A student was killed Saturday and many more were injured as two buildings were torched in clashes between security personnel and students at Egypts Al Azhar University. Students supporting the outlawed Muslim Brothe

新西兰英语 278 Heritage buildings

A heritage building is a building that is important to our history so we want to save it. It is usually a beautiful building. When a change is needed to that building for its use today, there can be a problem of how to keep its heritage value. Many c

Packages explode at U.S. state government buildings

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Two packages detonated（爆炸） on Thursday at two government buildings in the U.S. state of Maryland, but caused no serious injuries, state authorities said. One package detonated at the Jeffrey Building in Annapoli

VOA标准英语2013--Rangoon's Historic Buildings Face Threat of Development

Rangoon's Historic Buildings Face Threat of Development One building in downtown Rangoon was built 98 years ago by Indian traders, seized by the government in the 1960s and then abandoned several years ago when the government moved the capital to Nay

VOA标准英语2009年-Historical Buildings Fast Disappearing in

By Jessica Golloher Moscow 27 October 2009 Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has seen a dramatic surge in new construction, especially in cities like Moscow. New buildings and businesses are typically welcomed in any neighborhood, especiall

Lesson 154 - RUN A TIGHT SHIP / SIT TIGHT

To run a tight ship To sit tight 今天我们要给大家介绍的两个习惯用语里一个关键的字就是: Tight. Tight 就是「紧」的意思。这个字有的时候具有好的含义,但也有

每日一词【1029】jump ship：跳槽

今天我们要学的词是jump ship。 To jump ship, 意思是跳槽。 LeBron James decision to jump ship was not unexpected, 勒布朗.詹姆斯决定跳槽并不意外。 John didn't like his new boss and jumped ship the first chance he got, 约翰

China to boost construction of green buildings

BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government has established a goal of having green buildings account for 30 percent of new construction projects by 2020, according to an official document released Sunday. The document, which was jointly release

新西兰英语 339 Which buildings survived the earthquake?

The Canterbury earthquake on Sept 4th was unusual because no one was killed. It is the only city in the world which has experienced a 7.1 magnitude earthquake without any deaths. Part of the reason for this is our building code. New buildings have to

Buildings collapse after subsidence in S China

GUANGZHOU, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Two buildings consisting of six shops collapsed Monday afternoon after subsidence in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, the municipal government has confirmed. At around 4:40 p.m., subsidence occurr

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-09

1.A US vessel seized by pirates off Somalia is now back in the hands of the crew after they retook control of the ship. But one person aboard the ship reached by satellite phone tells the AP the pirates are holding the captain hostage in a lifeboat.

2016年CRI Official Removed after Illegal Dismantling of Hospital Buildings in Zhengzhou

A large excavator arrived at the No.4 Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University on Thursday morning and began demolishing the buildings of the radiological department and mortuary, while the work of the clinic was still going on and patients and do

2016年CRI Hospital Buildings in Zhengzhou Demolished Illegally

A large excavator arrived at the No.4 Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University on Friday morning and began demolishing the buildings of the radiological department and mortuary without any advance notice. Dozens of young men wearing camouflage coa

Buildings reglazed after meteorite strike in Russia

MOSCOW, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Most buildings damaged by Friday's meteorite fall in Russia's central Urals Region have been restored, and educational institutions will operate as usual on Monday. Xinhua reporters saw in the hardest-struck Chelyabinsk Re

新西兰英语 468 School buildings not safe from earthquakes

Two schools have closed buildings because engineers said they would not be safe in an earthquake. Last Friday Golden Bay High School in Nelson closed one classroom block. It was built 60 years ago, before the 1973 earthquake standards for buildings.

Italy Says US, British Forces Freed Italian Ship

Italy says U.S. and British forces have freed an Italian vessel that was hijacked off Somalia on Monday. The MV Montecristo had been seized 1,000 kilometers off Somalia's eastern coast, carrying 23 crew members from Italy, Ukraine and India. The Ital