TED演讲:那些盘旋在你脑海里的歌曲(1)

Have you ever been waiting in line at the grocery store, 你是否曾经在杂货店里排队等候， innocently perusing the magazine rack, when a song pops into your head? 毫无念头的浏览着杂志书架时，有一首歌在你的脑海里响起

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Were very excited because were now talking about right now so more than 56 million albums holds the record from the most No.1 albums that any female artists in the country music history. You know whom Ive talked about? Reba, of course and she is join

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Earlier this year, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had tested a new kind of nuclear missile. Putin declared it a success. But satellite images shared exclusively with NPR suggest the missiles testing may have had a different

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So a little unknown secret is -- 那么, 一个不为人知秘密是 -- did you see the one with the guy, he's got the Web cam? 你有没有看到一个带着网络摄像机的家伙? The poor PC guy. They're duct taping his head. They're just wrappi

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学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 3108 upgrade

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How Art Made The World 人、艺术、世界 -17

They began by analyzing the strain of farmed wheat that goes into our food and extracting its DNA. They did the same to several varieties of wild wheat. Then they compared their genetic makeup . And w

英语语法：72 Mixed Metaphors

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VOA慢速英语--美国文化中的美国土著形象

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China builds first tower-type solar-thermal power station

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经济学人61:用于油井的太阳热能

Science and Technology 科技 Solar heat for oil wells 用于油井的太阳热能 Mirrors in glasshouses 温室的反光镜... can be used to heat stones ...能用于加热石头 THERE is a lot of energy from ancient sunshine stored in the oil that

SSS 2011-11-16

Ever wander through a supermarket and past the open refrigerated cases that house cream cheese, butter and OJ? The refrigerated shelves are protected by jets of air that blow across the front. These jets form an air shield to keep the warm air out. T

英语俚语天天说 第61期:别出声,让某人安静put a sock in it

释义: Asking someone to be quiet or to shut up.让某人安静或者别出声 来源： The origins for this expression are unclear. 这个词组的来源不是很清楚。It's not really known why a sock is being used, or what the 'it' in the phra

TED演讲:通过卫星追寻秘鲁遗落的文明(2)

This is why I am so excited to share with you all today 因此我是那么激动，迫不及待想要与你共享， that we will begin the 2016 TED Prize platform in Latin America, more specifically Peru. 我们将在拉丁美洲开展2016TED奖金平

经济学人65:玻璃房里的镜子

Science and Technology 科技 Solar heat for oil wells 用于油井的太阳热 Mirrors in glasshouses can be used to heat stones 玻璃房里的镜子.....可以用来加热石头 THERE is a lot of energy from ancient sunshine stored in the oil that

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Today a new geo-thermal power station was opened in Kawerau, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Geo means earth and therm means heat. The power station uses hot steam from the earth. Like the geo-thermal power station at Wairakei, which opened in the 1950

男女对温度的感受不同?

It happens every summer: offices turn on the air-conditioning, and women freeze into popsicles. But until now, there was no data to understand why women felt cold and were slipping on cardigans while men just rolled up their sleeves at the same tempe

英语听力：Prophet Muhammad 先知穆罕默德 - 7

Muhammad's following began to grow. They called themselves Muslims for those who surrendered to God. They set out to preserve the message Muhammad had brought. This was the beginning of the Koran. The Koran was revealed orally, but very soon people r

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The Art of Public SpeakingUsing LanguageHave you ever played Pictionary1? The point of the game is to draw words so people watching you can guess them. Some words are easy ?nbsp;house, bird, and television, for instance. Even people without artistic

China's hi-res mapping satellite expanding coverage

BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) -- The Ziyuan III satellite, launched on Jan. 9 to produce high-resolution imagery for civilian use, has sent back visual data covering 45.79 million square km of the globe as of May 18, according to an announcement on Wednes