VOA慢速英语20061225a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Right now, the top story in AIDS research involves newly announced findings about adult male circumcision. Two studies in Africa found that circumci

SSS 2009-12-29

Could there be a substance that both gives us the munchies and can help combat obesity? There may indeed be, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Monell Center in Pennsylvania partnered with Kyus

AP 2011-08-27

1. Parts of North Carolina all the way up to Massachusetts have been rattled by an earthquake. The 5.9-magnitude quake was centered in Virginia and has caused minor damage and some injuries. 2. Hundreds of Libyan rebels have stormed one of Muammar Ga

SSS 2011-01-27

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Generations of American children have been told, Eat your broccoli! And for decades, researchers have known that broccoli and related vegetables like cauliflower and water

SSS 2012-03-28

This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber, this will just take a minute. Compounds found in the herb thyme have antibiotic properties. Now scientists have demonstrated that thyme might have a future role in fighting acne. A

SSS 2012-01-03

Ever wondered why mosquito eat some people up but leave others relatively unscathed. a new study find this prefential treament due to smells produced by the microscopic critters that cover our bodies. the reaserch is in the journal public library sci

SSS 2010-10-25

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Take a deep breath. Taste anything? Actually, your lungs may, because scientists have discovered that the same receptors that exist on the tongue to tast

英语语法：168 Concrete Versus Cement

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is cement versus concrete. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes: Accuracy is important. You might think concrete and cement are interchangeable, but you'll quickly find that you're mistaken when some guy at Home Depot rolls h

2006年VOA标准英语-Iraqis Deal with Cement Shortage, High Pri

By Ben Gilbert Baghdad 11 January 2006 An Iraqi mason works on a wall surrounding a new school on the outskirts of Basra (file picture) Iraq has been hit with a construction boom - in no small part du

SSS 2009-11-11

This book stinks! is really a bad review. But even a classic work can start to smell when it gets old enough. Now chemists have developed a technique that identifies what kind of degradation process an old book or historical document is going through

SSS 2010-10-06

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the University of Delawares Richard Heck, Purdues Ei-ichi Negishi and Hokkaido Universitys Akira Suzuki for their work in develop

SSS 2011-03-08

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Wine can help keep conversation flowing at a dinner party. And now it looks like that wine may aid in materials science as well. Japanese researchers dis

美国国家公共电台 NPR Jeffrey Eugenides Calls Short Stories 'Maddening' — And Now He Has A Collection

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Jeffrey Eugenides is well-known for his novels. He won the Pulitzer for Middlesex. But his latest work, a collection of short stories, is a departure. JEFFREY EUGENIDES: Short stories are difficult, maddening, little puzzle

英语单词大师：Compounding

AA: I'm Avi Arditti. Rosanne Skirble is away, but joining me from Los Angeles is English teacher Lida Baker to explain our topic on Wordmaster this week. It's a feature of the language called compounding. LIDA BAKER: Compounding is when we take two w

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - From A to Zinc: The Story of Vitamins

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - From A to Zinc: The Story of Vitamins By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Bob Doughty with Phoebe Zimmermann, and this is the VOA Special

Zinc Leads to Shorter, Milder Colds

Zinc supplements reduce the average cold by about a day and also make symptoms（症状） less severe, according to the latest findings. There's no cure for the common cold, but there's no shortage of ways to treat the symptoms. For a number of year

VOA标准英语2010年-California Company's 'Green' Cement Ca

Cement is a major component of concrete, the world's most widely used man-made material, an integral part of roads, bridges and buildings. But making cement requires heating limestone and other materials to very high temperatures, a process that rele

英语单词大师：A Blackbird

AA: I'm Avi Arditti. Rosanne Skirble is away, but joining me from Los Angeles is English teacher Lida Baker to explain our topic on Wordmaster this week. It's a feature of the language called compounding. LIDA BAKER: Compounding is when we take two w

英语面试时要让面试官相信你能胜任

进行英语面试时，面试官会问到，你为什么觉得你胜任这项工作。那么你的回答就要让面试官相信你能把这份工作做好。本文列出了一些常见的问题和回答，仅供参考。 I (Interviewer 面试者) A

莎士比亚十四行诗全集:第76篇

Why is my verse so barren of new pride, 为什么我的诗缺乏点晴之笔， So far from variation or quick change? 行文沉闷呆板，千篇一律？ Why with the time do I not glance aside 为什么我的诗不顺应时尚， To new-found meth