俚语口头禅:Throw your weight around[仗势欺人]

【句子对照】 Don't throw your weight around unless you absolutely have to -- people might start to dislike you! 不要仗势欺人，除非你必须那样。人们可能会不喜欢的。 【关键俚语】 throw your weight around 英：To use your authority or influence, usually

CRI实用英语课堂 Unit 11 Losing Weight 减肥

Part 1 Weight Problem 体重问题 Dialogue Script 对话原文 Anne: My sister Ellie, who recently lost 20 pounds, has been pressuring me to lose weight too. Joe: It's a good thing for her to fulfill that, isn't it? Anne: Good?! Yes, it's good for her bu

万花筒 2008-05-07&05-08

I like to eat so I could just see my stomach get a little more training. Raheem Babalola is a model and actor who says he popped this pill for the last 4 months and lost about 10 pounds without changing his diet or exercise habits. Its keeping those

减肥瘦身英语口语话题 第99期:每天走一万步

Unit 99：Take 10，000 steps a day 第99单元：每天走一万步 A research study looked at 332 middle-aged,overweight men who needed to lose weight and lower their blood pressure and cholesterol levels. 一项针对三百十二名超重，需要减

VOA慢速英语2003年-Body Weight and the Risk of Cancer

Broadcast: May 13, 2003 by Caty Weaver VOICE ONE: I'm Sarah Long with Bob Doughty, and this is the VOA Special English program, SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. VOICE TWO: Today--a new warning about body weight a

SSS 2009-05-04

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Climate change is the great environmental challenge facing the world today, but maybe we should start calling it Climates Change. Because scientists who've

2007年VOA标准英语-British Parliament Report Finds Racial Bias in

By Tendai Maphosa London 21 June 2007 The perception that young black Britons are more likely to get involved in crime is being countered by a recently released report that details racial profiling and discrimination in the British legal system. Tend

美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Dieting Passe? Study Finds Fewer Overweight People Try To Lose Weight

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And now let's ask a question raised by new research in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Here's the question - are diets becoming passe? NPR's Allison Aubrey reports that as the number of Americans who are overweigh

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Lesson In How To Overcome Implicit Bias

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starbucks' plan to close all of its U.S. stores for an afternoon to give their employees racial bias training has a lot of people asking, will this even work? We know little about what the training will include. Starbucks has said

双语有声阅读:India rapped over birth bias 印度因婴儿

India rapped over birth bias 印度因婴儿性别偏见遭谴责 India is seeking to get population growth down 印度正在寻求降低人口出生率的办法 The United Nations Population Fund has taken India to task over its ratio of females to

VOA标准英语2010年-Childhood Obesity Linked to Adult Hear

C-reactive protein is an indication of inflammation in the body, and, at high levels, is considered an early sign of future heart disease. It's a risk factor in a similar way that elevated cholesterol is a risk factor for heart disease, says Asheley

研究证实这是一个对胖子充满恶意的世界

Being fat is the most common reason children are bullied, and something needs to be done about it. 胖是致使孩子受欺负的最常见原因，对此，我们亟需做些什么。 That is the predominant view of thousands of adults from four diff

Obese women, children underestimate their weight: study

BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhuanet) -- A new study has found that many overweight(超重的) women and children often underestimate how heavy they are, according to media reports Wednesday. The study, conducted by researchers from Columbia University Medic

VOA标准英语2010年-Physical Activity in Teen Years Helps

A new study finds regular physical activity as a teenager may prevent cognitive impairment - a decline in mental abilities - decades later. Previous studies found that people who were physically active in later life were more likely to avoid mental d

【英语语言学习】爱因斯坦的大脑没有特别之处

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Albert Einstein had an enviable mind. So much, in fact, that when he died in Princeton's hospital, the pathologist on-call stole his brain. Dr. Einstein had asked for his brain to be cremated along with the rest of him, but eventua

你相信身边有外星人吗？

Aliens exist and they live in our midst disguised as humans--at least, that's what 20 percent of people polled in a global survey believe. 外星人不仅存在，而且假扮成人类生活在我们中间至少有20%的人这么认为。 The Reuters

Hormone linked to regain weight

BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- A new study shows that it's not simply a lack of willpower that explains weight regain but hormones keep one insisting on eating, a persistent biological urge. As any dieter knows, it's hard to keep weight off. Weight

Living in Fat City

Living in Fat City If you live in Australia, the US, the UK, Canada or New Zealand, then you live in the same place as me; Fat City. Fat City of course, being more of a collective mindset, and a culture of eating too much and moving too little, than

美国国家公共电台 NPR Emergency Medical Responders Confront Racial Bias

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a recent study out of Oregon that shows that race comes into play, even when it means administering lifesaving care. Specifically, this study shows black patients are 40 percent less likely to get pain medication than whi

学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2680 correlation

今天我们要学的词是 correlation. Correlation 名词，相关性。A new study finds a strong correlation between anger and heart attacks in first-time heart-attack patients. 一项新研究发现，愤怒的情绪跟第一次发心脏病之间有