美国有线新闻 CNN 美国国会将换届选举 驴象之争再度上演

Tonight is the last of three head-to-head debates between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. It's scheduled to start at 9:00 p.m. Eastern at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. You can wa

NPR 2009-07-25

President Obama expressed regret today for saying the Cambridge police acted stupidly when they arrested Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates last week. NPR's Scott Horsley has more. The President spoke by telephone with the police sergeant who arres

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会话急救包： I'm expecting the pay rise this month.我认为这个月会加薪。 Your guess is as good as mine.我猜的又不会比你准。 You tell me.你告诉我。 I've no idea.我不知道。 Beats me.我被打败了。 You'd better be....最好是这样。 You'd better be early.你

VOA慢速英语--美国11月6日举行大选

US Holds Elections on November 6 On Tuesday, November 6, Americans will choose hundreds of federal lawmakers and state officials. The election is called the midterm because it comes in the middle of the presidents four-year term. But even though the

NPR 2009-05-17

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. President Obama has nominated Republican governor Jon Huntsman of Utah to be the next US ambassador to China. Huntsman has a strong background in Asia, including a stint as ambassador to Singapore. He

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2007年VOA标准英语-Women Gain Greater Control Over Menstruation, C

By Carol Pearson Washington 25 May 2007 Women who do not want children, and those who do, are both getting new help. The U.S. government has approved a birth control pill that eliminates menstrual cycles, and it also has approved a product to help wo

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THE ocean is dark and full of terrors, and the black dragonfish is the darkest of them all. 海洋中充满黑暗与恐惧，黑色的深海龙鱼是其中最黑暗的生物。 Its surface, new measurements reveal, is as black as the blackest materia

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今天我们要学的词是gain ground。 To gain ground意思是有进展，也可以指越来越被大家所接受。Mild weather helped firefighters gain ground on a fire in Yosemite National Park, 温和的天气让消防队员征服优胜美地国

华为手机推出新功能:可当电子称使

Phones are gradually replacing a large number of everyday items and the latest household gadget under threat is the weighing scale. 手机逐渐取代我们生活中很多东西。而目前受到威胁的东西就是称。 Huawei recently unveiled a

TED演讲:如何构建对我们有利的人工智能(3)

I realized that, as I worked on improving AI task by task, dataset by dataset, 我了解到，当我努力在改善人工智能，一个任务一个任务、一个数据集一个数据集地改善， that I was creating massive gaps, holes and blind

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Most people who hold babies know that the moment babies go to sleep, they seem to gain weight. Of course, a babys weight doesnt really change when they fall asleep, so why does the limp, floppy weight of a sleeping baby seem greater than it actually

Obama: Education Cornerstone to Future Job Gains

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And I just look at this, and I think, yes, 看到这些，我想，是的 we could take that so much further by allowing people to set targets 我们能可以把它带到更广阔的境界，以让人们去设定目标的方式 by setting calibrated

TED演讲:游戏奖励大脑的7种方式(4)

The first one is very simple: experience bars measuring progress 首先看一个简单的：用经验值条量度进程 something that's been talked about brilliantly by people like Jesse Schell earlier this year. 它曾经被人精彩地讨论过，比

TED演讲:游戏奖励大脑的7种方式(3)

Now, I could make a game called Piecraft, 现在，我可以做一个游戏名为《馅饼争霸》 where all you had to do was get a million pies or a thousand pies. 在里面你要做的所有事就是得到一百万个馅饼或者一千个馅饼 T

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However, for reasons unknown he calibrated the instrument in a way that put freezing at 32 degrees and boiling at 212 degrees. From the outset this numeric eccentricity bothered some people, and in 1742 Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, came up w

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集中注意力的秘诀 Make a List 制定计划 We often have trouble paying attention to one thing because our brain wants to drift off to think about something else. 我们常常很难专注于一件事，因为我们的大脑会神游到另一件事