VOA标准英语2010年-Growing World Population Stresses Gove

According to the 2010 World Population Data Sheet, there will be fewer workers to support an aging population in the coming decades. The booming population growth of the past century has slowed, but improving health conditions and stubbornly high bir

国际货币基金组织首次公布全球人民币外储

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released data about the world's holdings of the Chinese currency, the renminbi, denominated foreign exchange reserves for the first time. 国际货币基金组织(IMF)日前首次公布了全球人民币外汇储备

Powerless Aircraft Sets Altitude Record

Two pilots recently set a new altitude world record for gliders. A glider is an aircraft that does not have an engine. They are pulled into the air by powered airplanes and then released. They are designed to ride warm, rising air to gain altitude. T

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VOA标准英语2010年-Our World - 1 May 2010

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Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. The World Bank lends money to promote development, and to help achieve its goals it collects a lot of data. For years, the World Bank has been on

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Nine out of ten people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday. 世界卫生组织昨天表示，每十个人就有九个呼吸着不良空气。 In a staggering report, calling for dramatic action

你的色觉够好吗？新应用测你的辨色力

The latest app that's sweeping the web is the fiendishly addictive, and surprisingly difficult, Kuku Kube. 最新颜色辨识应用程序Kuku Kube正在席卷网络，它像恶魔般使人上瘾，并且难度惊人。 It has been designed to put you

VOA标准英语2010年-Our World — 5 Februrary 2010

MUSIC: Our World theme Straight ahead on Our World: The U.S. space agency pulls the plug on its plan to return humans to the moon; pictures from Pluto reveal dramatic changes in the dwarf planet; and a new web-based English/Creole dictionary for reli

职业社交网络难以取代名片

Some 20th century artefacts have largely gone from the modern office, the typewriter and fax machine among them. They have been swallowed by computerisation and the internet. One dead-tree tradition endures: the business card. 一些20世纪的设备打

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The company published this map showing the cost of living in nearly 500 cities around the world. Red dots indicate expensive cities and green less expensive. 这张显示全球500座城市生活成本的地图，红点表示昂贵，绿色表示便宜。

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So he was talking about the law in Britain which is the Communications Data Bill, an absolutely outrageous piece of legislation. 而他在谈论一个令人愤怒的英国通信数据法案啊！ In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing an

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It's the idea of permission-less innovation. 这个想法是一个不需要授予权限的革新。 The Internet caused an explosion of innovation, because it was built upon an open architecture. 互联网促成了改革爆炸，因为它是建立在一

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Similarly, long-run returns provide support for the grand theory of inequality set out in 2013 by Thomas Piketty, 同样，长期回报还为托马皮克迪在2013年提出的宏大的不平等理论提供了支持。 a French economist, who suggeste

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BBC News You may be familiar with the statistic that 90% of the worlds data was created in the last few years. Indeed, every two years for about the last three decades the amount of data in the world has increased by about 10 times. BBC新闻 你可能

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A: Weve been over this a thousand times. The data is irrefutable! Look, weve done extensive re- search, built studies, and read the literature, and there is conclusive evidence to support my theory! B: Horowitz, I beg to differ. Even in your most rec

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Interestingly enough, when you start to crank the data, 有意思的是，当你开始收集数据时， these pockets of futureless language speakers all around the world turn out to be, by and large, some of the world's best savers. 你就会发现这