澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-10-16

There is no sign of a young boy who was thought to have been stuck in a home-made balloon that floated thousands of meters above the US state of Colorado. It's believed the boy got into the contraption in his backyard and it floated away with the six

Emerging Technologies

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Are there any restriction about smoking on the bus? 汽车上有限制吸烟的规定吗？ No smoking whatsoever is allowed. 完全禁止吸烟。 I am very allergic to cigarette smoke. 我对香烟过敏。 Is it all right to smoke on the bus? 车上

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By Zlatica Hoke A growing number of American women are joining the U.S. Armed Forces to serve in an ever wider array of duties. In the past decade, they have eroded one of the last remaining barriers

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These hardworking houseplants can sweeten every breath you take . Put Your Plants to Work In the early 1980s, when NASA researchers were looking for ways to purify the air inside the space pods of the future , they didn ' t just look to engineer a pr

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By Melinda Smith Washington 14 November 2007 There are an estimated 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, and approximately 25,000 in Afghanistan. Like soldiers in other wars before them, a significant number of those returning home are bringing back emotiona

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Explosive Devices have accounted for around 800 of the roughly 1,100 U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan. To counter these increasingly-lethal bombs, the U.S. military is spending billions of dollars on blast-resistant vehicles specially tailored for A

美国国家公共电台 NPR 82nd Airborne Division Celebrates 100 Years

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The 82nd Airborne Division is turning 100 years old this week. Its soldiers gained fame in major battles of the World Wars, and they've become the nation's go-to troops for rapid deployment. Jay Price of member station WUNC travel

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VOA常速英语2007年-Combat Psychologist Treats Trauma, And Deals Wi

By Al Pessin Pentagon 04 December 2007 The U.S. Defense Department Friday, November 30, 2007 launched a new effort to address the mental health needs of members of the military. But it says the effort to coordinate medical, academic, research and oth

听歌学英语：爱今天 Love Today

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CCTV9英语新闻：Storm washes away three days of haze in Beijing

A heavy downpour has hit Beijing, ending three days of high humidity and smog in the city. Rain started falling at around nine last night, with an average precipitation of 11 millimeters. It was one of the heaviest storms in the city since the rainy

大气污染来自汽车尾气

According to the latest research, vehicles, coal-burning, airborne dust and industrial production account for 85 to 90-percent of the major airborne pollution sources in most Chinese cities. Vehicles are the biggest polluters in Beijing, Hangzhou, Gu

每日一词【477】combat：战斗，格斗

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 02 June 2008 Australian combat troops have begun leaving Iraq. Their departure fulfills an election promise by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who pledged to pull his country's out of Iraq by the middle of 2008. From Sydney, Phil Me

More equipment parts exempted from import tax

BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) has revised a list of major items of technical equipment enjoying import-tax exemption, according to a circular issued by the body on Monday. Chinese manufacturers of items of large tech

A California company has unveiled a tiny flying drone

A California company that makes unmanned drone aircraft for the U.S. military has unveiled a tiny flying drone that looks like a hummingbird(蜂鸟). The airborne spy is part of a new kind of military technology that also has civilian uses. Several y

愉悦口语:第593期 过敏英文怎么说

be allergic to 对过敏，厌恶 I am allergic to seafood. 我对海鲜过敏。 Mike was allergic to housework. 麦克很讨厌做家务。

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雾霾 haze; 烟雾 smog; 空气污染指数 air pollution index; 橙色预警 orange alert; 悬浮颗粒物 airborne particulate matter; 可吸入颗粒物 inhalable particle; 有毒物质 toxic substance; 空气质量检测 air quality monitoring; 实

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本期内容： Earthquakes wrought havoc in Ecuador, killing more than 200, and Japan, where at least 41 died and 11 were missing. Hundreds were injured in both countries. In Japan, 180,000 people are in temporary shelters and 300,000 homes are with