VOA常速英语2014--亚洲细菌威胁到佛罗里达橘子树

Asian Bacteria Threatens Florida Orange Trees 亚洲细菌威胁到佛罗里达橘子树 Florida's citrus fruit industry is facing a serious threat from a bacteria carried by an Asian insect. The widespread infestation again highlights the danger of

VOA常速英语2018--智能手机内置传感器:你不知道的健康大助手

Computer scientist Shwetak Patel and his team are developing new sensing systems. The initial focus was really around energy and water monitoring.They built a new generation of smart sensors that monitor electronic interference on a homes power line

Placebo Effect Update

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 19, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. When scientists want to test the effectiveness of a new drug, they usually divide

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Benjamin Frankin wondered about(at) lightning. He combined his curiosity with imagination and carried out his well-known experiment to show that lightning and an electric spark are the same thing. Cur

专业术语—口腔生理学术语E3(英文详解)

Epidermal growth factor - a cytokine that stimulates epithelial cell proliferation. Epinephrine - a neurotransmitter substance found at all adrenergic synapses (nor epinephrine or epinephrine). It is

专业术语—口腔生理学术语I2(英文详解)

Inflammation - is a whole complex of events which occur in sequence, in response to injury. Tissue damaged by bacteria, chemicals, heat, trauma etc, release histamine and bradykinin and serotonin whic

专业术语—口腔生理学术语B(英文详解)

Basal lamina - a term used to describe the different layers which make up the basement membrane. These different layers of the basement membrane, the lamina lucida and lamina densa are only visible wi

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head 头 throat 喉咙，咽喉 armpit hair 腋毛 nipple 乳头 chest 胸部 pit 胸口 navel 肚脐 abdomen 腹部 private parts 阴部 thigh 大腿 neck 脖子 shoulder 肩 back 背 waist 腰 hip 臀

Birthplace effect “出生地效应”

今年7月，14岁的美国华裔少年刘继打破老虎伍兹的纪录，成为美国青少年高尔夫锦标赛史上最年轻的冠军，同时刷新老虎伍兹保持了19年的纪录。刘继出生在纽约州一个只有11万人口的小城市史

VOA双语新闻：1、亚洲细菌威胁佛州橘树

亚洲细菌威胁佛州橘树 Florida's citrus fruit industry is facing a serious threat from a bacteria carried by an Asian insect. The widespread infestation again highlights the danger of transferring non-native species to American soil. 佛罗里达

美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-08-05

It's similiar to a pregnancy test: a drop of liquid on a strip of paper causes an easily seen color change. But imagine that kind of simple, cheap technology employed in testing for pollution or health issues anywhere and on the cheap. Researchers at

Keep Fit During the Holidays

We all make resolutions every year to keep fit whether we have diabetes or not. The difference is that as people with diabetes, we need to keep fit, and we know that even if we don't do anything about it. One only has to read the medical abstracts an

每日一词【753】side effect：副作用

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

医生护士英语会话(3)：内科

护士：早上好！ Nurse: Good morning. 病人：你好！ Patient: Good morning. 护士：请问哪里不舒服？ Nurse: What seems to be the problem? 病人：高烧，感觉糟透了。 Patient: Im running a high fever and feeling terribly bad. 护士：这种情况出现有多久了？ Nurse

学个词Learn a Word 第753期 side effect

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

Pope leaves Vatican, resignation takes effect

VATICAN CITY, Feb.28 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came into effect at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Thursday, who had left the Vatican by helicopter for the papal vacation retreat in south Rome earlier in the afternoon. The pope h

Efforts to ease medical costs take effect

BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Medicine prices at public clinics have been notably reduced thanks to a policy that promotes basic medicine, an office of the State Council said Thursday. Current price levels of basic medicine used by government-funded t

只要讲英语就会用得上的词汇

只要讲英语就会用得上的词汇 闪光之说： 1、shine: 照耀，指光稳定发射； 2、glitter: 闪光，指光不稳定发射； 3、glare: 耀眼，表示光的强度最大； 4、sparkle:闪烁，指发射微细的光度。 打破之说

英语听力文摘 English Digest 277、孔隙

Sugar bowls and hole 孔隙是岩土固体矿物颗粒间的空间。岩土中直径大于1毫米、重力水可于其中自由运动的孔隙，是大孔隙（macro-pore，large pore）。岩土中直径为0.01～1毫米、重力水和毛管水可存其