Designing a Quake-Resistant Building Starts at the Soil

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Builders in developing countries are often not required to build strong buildings. So, when a disaster strikes, the damage is often widespread. 发展中

万花筒2008-02-21:美国欲导弹打卫星

The Pentagon plans to shoot down a disabled spy satellite to prevent a potential deadly gas leak, officials said. Upon notification of the descending NRO satellite, the President and his national and homeland security advisors reviewed the options a

VOA标准英语2010年-Making Art Out of Scraps of Metal

Most works of art - paintings, sculptures, artistic jewelry - are created for a collector or patrons who visit a gallery. The artist makes something, and someone else buys it and takes it home. Others create large public art - sculptures and statues

事实：加拿大国土面积是欧盟的两倍-Canada is Twice the Size of the European Union

Pre-Listening Vocabulary territory: the area owned by a certain nation European Union: an association of 28 nations in Europe that makes social and economic decisions together shoreline: the place where water meets land bordered by: to have something

2006年VOA标准英语-New US Mars Mission to Get Better Look at

By David McAlary Washington 06 March 2006 The newest American mission to Mars is hurtling toward the red planet, due Friday to examine it in the sharpest detail yet. It will be the largest spacecraft

2006年VOA标准英语-Biggest, Most Sensitive US Mars Spacecraft

By David McAlary Washington 10 March 2006 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Another U.S. spacecraft has begun orbiting Mars to study the red planet in unprecedented detail. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter w

CNN 2010-05-05

At first glance, you would never know this warehouse contains vital weapons to combat the spreading oil slick. They're staging areas set up from Venice, Louisiana, all the way to Pensacola, Florida. So what's going on here in this staging area is goi

与美国小学生一起学英文第11册 第10期:滨线

Shoreline 滨线 Is it a shore different from a coast? Yes, it is. 滨和海岸是不是不一样？是的。 The word coast is used when land meets the ocean. 海岸是陆地和海洋接触的地方 The word shore is used when land meets a large bod

VOA标准英语2009年-Scientists Struggle to Protect Chesapeake

By Zulima Palacio Washington 23 October 2009 Davis points to a grass shrimp barely visible in her palm Every year erosion and sea level rise are claiming about two meters of shoreline along the Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast of the United States.

2014年CRI 中国国防部敦促美停止侦察活动 北约称上千俄军人在乌克兰境内

China's Defense Ministry is pointing the finger at the United States as being responsible for a series of close encounters between Chinese and US jets along China's coastline. At the same time, the China's Defense Ministry is urging the United States

CCTV9英语新闻：Defense Ministry asks US to stop reconnaissance

China's Defense Ministry has asked the US to stop conducting reconnaissance activities close to China to prevent hazardous incidents. Spokesperson Yang Yujun was responding to US claims that two Chinese jet fighters last week unsafely intercepted one

军事英语词汇

军事英语词汇 导弹 missiles 洲际导弹 intercontinental missile 中程导弹 mediurn-range missile 巡航导弹 cruise missile 核弹头 nuclearwerhead 地对地导弹 surface to-surface missile 地对空导弹 surface-to-air missile 舰对空导弹 ship-to-air missile 空对空导

音乐天堂：Shoreline——Deas Vail

So you say I'm better off here As dry as the shoreline In an ocean of fear So you say I can't be alive Until there is nothing When we're meeting eyes again Day by day, I wander these halls And you're casting a shadow Onto every wall But all the way y

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sunday Puzzle: Follow My Lead

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We're only two days away from the Fourth of July. But here's something that won't leave you bloated like barbecue and beer. It's The Puzzle. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GARCIA-NAVARRO: Joining me as always is Will Shortz. He's puz

学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2926 reconnaissance

今天我们要学的词是 reconnaissance. Reconnaissance 名词，意思是侦察。U.S. military officials say the American forces ambushed in Niger were on a reconnaissance patrol. 美国军方官员说，在尼日尔遭遇伏击的美军当时正在

CCTV9英语新闻：China dismisses recent tension as 'old tricks'

Chinese Ministry of National Defense has said recent incidents in the South China Sea are old tricks used to stir tensions and smear the reputation of Chinese armed forces. The Ministry spokesperson Yang Yujun made the remarks on Tuesday, in response