太阳科普 第4期

It's easy to appreciate the power of the sun 在这样炎热的夏日，站在德州湾海边 on a nice hot summer's day like here on the Texas Gulf Coast. 不难体会太阳的威力 And you can feel the power of the sun on your skin, 皮肤能清楚感

美国国家公共电台 NPR VA Hospitals Still Struggling With Adding Staff Despite Billions From Choice Act

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: An effort to help American veterans get medical care faster is not working. NPR and some of its member stations have investigated a multi-billion dollar U.S. government program for veterans. It is supposed to add more doctors, nu

SSS 2011-08-31

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Handwashing is the best way to avoid spreading infection, according to the CDC. But doctors, nurses and hospital staff wash up less than half as often as they

美国科学60秒 SSS 2012-11-30

You might say blue-green algae are optimists: they put things in the best possible lightliterally. Actually, the organisms arent really algae. Theyre photosynthetic ocean bacteria. And they can fine-tune their photosynthetic apparatus to take advanta

听电影学英语-朱诺 03

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U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy Does ＂Koi＂ Dance

This is Whats Trending Today. Have you heard this song? It is the theme song for a television show in Japan. The song is called Koi. And the singer is Gen Hoshino. He is one of the actors on the show. According to reports from Japan, the actors in th

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By Larry London Washington, D.C. 16 February 2007 watch RJA report Their name means nothing at all, but is instantly memorable. Their sound mixes heavy metal guitar with danceable beats of pop punk, and is instantly recognizable. Florida rockers Red

Google's YouTube to boost staff by 30 percent in 2011

NEW YORK, Mar 10 (Reuters) - YouTube, the popular video site owned by Google Inc, said on Thursday it is adding 200 jobs, boosting its staff by more than 30 percent in its biggest hiring year. In a blog posting, the company also said more than 35 hou

学个词Learn a Word 第1653-staff

今天我们要学的词是staff。Staff 做为名词是工作人员，比如 staff meeting就是职工会议。The Washington Times plans to cut staff for a second time in three years. 华盛顿时报计划裁员，这是三年以来的第二次了。

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The selfie stick didn't always look like this. The original patent was filed all the way back in 1984, before cell phones were ubiquitous. Before the word selfie was even coined, let alone in the dictionary. The first selfie stick was neither as eleg

2006年VOA标准英语-Eritrea Expels Five UN Staff

By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 06 September 2006 The Eritrean government has expelled five U.N. staff members on spying allegations. Four out of the five are members of the U.N. Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The fifth was formerly a security coordinat

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学个词Learn a Word 第1411期　half-staff

今天我们要学的词是half-staff。Half-staff, 意思是降半旗。 As a matter of protocol, U.N. offices around the globe lowered their flags to half-staff to mark the funeral of former North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, 不久前维吉尼亚理工

China develops therapeutic apparatus for Parkinson's disease

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ABIDJAN, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's political crisis deepens with the appointment of two prime ministers by the two presidential candidates declared the winner of the Nov. 28 run-off respectively by the electoral commission and the Constituti

The Flies and the Honey-Pot

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职场英文口语 第195期:建立关系网(5)

Here's my business card should you want to call. 这是我的名片，你可以给我打电话。 So, some good work by Anna but there's more networking to be done. 安娜干得很好，但还要多建立一些关系网。 A conference is a good plac

经济学人: 热带疾病 (2)

Properly analysed, Fraunhofer lines provide information about the exact chemical make-up of whatever is reflecting the light. 经过恰当分析，夫琅和费谱线可以提供关于任何反光物体的化学组成的确切信息。 Their patterns

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The Ombudsman, Beverley Wakeham, told a Parliamentary committee that her office has too much work and too few staff. She needs another $1m to employ extra staff and for general administration. The job of the Ombudsman office is to deal with complaint