美国有线新闻 CNN 2016-8-05

Earlier this month, the group of about 15 people reportedly got stuck in an elevator in Chicago's Willis Tower. In a separate incident, some USC football players who exceeded in elevator's weight limit got stuck in California. What the two groups had

Space News

Broadcast: Jan 29, 2003 By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell about a space rock that

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She must be attributing the change in her vision to some maneuver of the tracker's rather than a betrayal by me. 她一定把自己所预见的改变归咎于追随者的某种阴谋，根本没想到是我的背叛。 Jasper walked silently beside m

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It was 4 p.m. The final class had just ended. Some students were saying goodbye to one another. Some students were exchanging emails with one another. Some students were talking about where to go for dinner. There was a lot of talking and laughing. S

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Lift An American visiting England walked into a hotel lobby and pushed a button for elevator service．The lift will be down presently，said a nearby clerk． The lift？said the American．Oh，you mean the elevator． No，I mean the lift，replie

Preparing for a Walk in Space

Broadcast: June 4, 2003 By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Ray Freeman. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today, we tell about how astronauts prepa

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There's only one little entrance to the entire building, 整座大楼只有一个小小的入口， and the 3,000 residents come in and out through that single door. 3000居民从这里通过这一个门进出。 Together, the inhabitants created pub

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Idiom: pride goes before a fall ( arrogance causes failure ) Hit the book: Escalator Virtually Trap At ease In case Handrail Trip Stay put stroller There are numerous escalators all over the nation and virtually all people use these machines. It is e

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Registration 登记住宿 A: I hear that this is one of the best hotels around. 我听说过这是附近最好的宾馆之一。 B: We like to think so, sir. 是的，先生。 A: I'm new in this city and will only be staying for a few days. But I wo

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By Alex Villarreal Washington 25 October 2007 The U.S. space shuttle Discovery has docked at the International Space Station, marking the next phase in a complex mission to expand the international orbiter. VOA's Alex Villarreal reports from Washingt

Space junks threaten future mission

BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The amount of space junks floating in Earth's orbit has reached a critical level, warned scientists. The future space missions may become too dangerous to fly for a risk of colliding with space junks, said a report rel

中国的自动扶梯安全问题

The latest fatal elevator accident took place a week ago on a cargo lift in the province of Jiangsu. A young woman was killed after she suddenly became stuck in the gap between the lift and the platform. The preliminary investigation suggests she was

Russian space forces reconnect with lost satellite

MOSCOW, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Space Forces has re-established contact with a military satellite, Geo-IK-2, which went missing in February, local media reported Friday. According to a spokesman from the Defense Ministry(国防部) , Interfa

Working in Project Space

Working in Project Space One of the givens in David Allens Getting Things Done is that you cant do a project. Instead, Allen recommends you break projects down into immediate next actions, discrete doable chunks that can be cranked through with a min

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The U.S. space shuttle（航天飞机） Discovery has completed its work at the International Space Station on its 39th and final mission, and is preparing for Wednesday's scheduled landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle success

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This Friday, the U.S. space shuttle Endeavor is scheduled to lift off on its last voyage（航行） to the orbiting International Space Station. And on June 28, barring any last minute complications, Alantis will become the last space shuttle ever t

Russian Space Agency names next crew to ISS

MOSCOW, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos confirmed on Monday the list of next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 14. Russia's Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft will bring Russian cosmonauts Anton Sh

China sets up management body for orbiting space lab

BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- China has established an operation committee for management of the country's first space lab module, Tiangong-1, during its two-year orbit of earth. The committee will deal with operations planning, technical appraisal an

China accomplishes first space docking

BEIJING, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Two Chinese spacecraft accomplished the country's first space docking procedure early Thursday, silently coupling in space more than 343 km above Earth's surface. Nearly two days after it was launched, the unmanned spacecr

China sends its first female to space

JIUQUAN, June 16 (Xinhua) -- She is a wife. She belongs to China's one-child generation. On Saturday, 33-year-old Liu Yang becomes the country's first woman entering space. The home-grown Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, atop an upgraded Long March-2F carrier