Placebo Effect Update

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 19, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. When scientists want to test the effectiveness of a new drug, they usually divide

考研英语长难句讲解 第114期

15. This added-worker effect could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times. 【分析】简单句。句子主干为 This added-worker effect could support the safety net。过去

Belief in Cause and Effect

Benjamin Frankin wondered about(at) lightning. He combined his curiosity with imagination and carried out his well-known experiment to show that lightning and an electric spark are the same thing. Cur

CRI实用英语课堂 Unit 46 Stock Market II 股票市场（下）

Part 1 NASDAQ 纳斯达克 For the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation system, NASDAQ is one of the largest markets in the world for the trading of stocks. The number of companies listed on NASDAQ is more than that on any of t

CRI实用英语课堂 Unit 45 Stock Market I 股票市场（上）

Part 1 Stock Market Investment 股市投资 Stock market investment gives you the unique opportunity to take a direct part in the growth and success of companies. When you buy shares in a company, it means that you actually own a portion of that company

New York Stock Exchange

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: November 7, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The largest 1)stock market in the world is the New York Stock Exchange. It is also the ol

Birthplace effect “出生地效应”

今年7月，14岁的美国华裔少年刘继打破老虎伍兹的纪录，成为美国青少年高尔夫锦标赛史上最年轻的冠军，同时刷新老虎伍兹保持了19年的纪录。刘继出生在纽约州一个只有11万人口的小城市史

考研英语长难句讲解 第173期

15. This added-worker effect could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times. 【分析】简单句。句子主干为This added-worker effect could support the safety net。过去

2018年CRI U.S. companies do not want a trade war: top business lobby

I think it (trade war) will hurt both countries, and there would be collateral damage, Im sure, in other markets. So a trade war, basically, everybody loses. William Zarit, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. Last month, U.S. Presi

每日一词【753】side effect：副作用

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

VOA标准英语10月-Arab Stock Markets Continue Freefall

Investors in the Arabian Gulf and elsewhere across the Arab world continued to panic, causing stock exchanges from Dubai to Riyadh to Cairo to plunge amid falling oil prices and fears of a real estate bust in the Gulf, as Edward Yeranian reports fro

VOA标准英语10月-Indian Stock Markets Continue to Plunge Despite C

India's stock markets have plunged to a three-year low despite assurances by top officials that Asia's third largest economy can be cushioned from the global economic turmoil. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the Central Bank is infusing m

VOA标准英语2008年-Indian Stock Markets Plunge on Worries Over Wor

Indian stock markets have plunged sharply as worries about the global financial systems rock the world. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the Indian market was among the hardest hit in Asia. An onlooker reacts as he watches stock prices on a s

学个词Learn a Word 第753期 side effect

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

Pope leaves Vatican, resignation takes effect

VATICAN CITY, Feb.28 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came into effect at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Thursday, who had left the Vatican by helicopter for the papal vacation retreat in south Rome earlier in the afternoon. The pope h

German and NY Stock Exchanges Approve Merger

The company that operates the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and other European markets is buying the New York Stock Exchange to form the world's largest market for trading stock and other securities(有价证券). The boards of Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Eu

Japan bank lending drops 2.1% in Dec., money stock rises

TOKYO, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The overall level of bank lending(银行贷款) in Japan fell 2.1 percent from a year earlier in December, marking the 13th straight month of decline, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) said Wednesday. According to the central bank, t

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Indonesia closed its stock exchange for the second day to halt a flurry of selling that sent the main stock index plummeting more than 20 percent this week, while Asian trading ended mixed. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins has more from Jakarta. Traders w

High-Speed Trading Changing Stock Market

Wall Street analysts searching for reasons for the U.S. stock market's sharp swings in early August point to high unemployment, the European debt crisis and other basic economic problems. But some also suspect what is known as high-frequency trading,