VOA常速英语2016--治理全球气候取得重大进展

In less than one year, the global community has made tremendous progress in addressing the numerous issues that negatively affect our climate. Last December, nearly 200 countries concluded negotiations of the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit the

【突破英文词汇】therm, thermo -- heat 热

1. diathermy /'daɪə,ɜːmɪ/ -- method of treating disease by genereating heat in body issues by high-frequency electric currents Diathermy may prescribed for arthritis, bursitis and other conditions requiring heat treatment. 关节炎、黏液囊炎

英语听力文摘 English Digest 620、冰块如何使饮品冷却？

How Does Ice Cool Drinks? Heres something we tend to take for granted: drop a few ice cubes into a glass of water at room temperature, and in a few minutes the water will cool. How does this work? Heat is a measure of molecular activity: the faster a

英语听力文摘 English Digest 533、为何冰箱会发出声音？

Why refrigerators hum? Why refrigerators hum，on toay's moment of science.On the recent program we have discussed how fluorocarboncoolant cools your food by coming to a boil in coils hidden in your fridge. How is this possible? When you boil water o

英语语法：59 How to Use Transition Words

Grammar Girl here. Today, Bonnie Trenga will help us choose better transition words. This article could make you a tad hungry, because today were comparing the art of writing to the art of making a sandwich. In fact, just for today, we might need to

Kenyan Students Win Prize for Solar Power Project

From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. A group of students from Kenya was among winners of the 2017 Zayed Future Energy Prize. The 10-member team is receiving a $100,000 award to make their school a green energy institution. The Zay

Common Transition Words

In 1963, President John Kennedy gave a famous speech at American University. In the speech, Kennedy said the following lines: Our problems are manmade; therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human desti

CCTV9英语新闻：Everyday tips to shrinking your carbon footprint

Earth Hour aims to encourage people to be energy-conscious all year, not just for one hour every 365 days. Here are some energy-saving tips we can all do every day. First is turning lights off when they aren't needed. Making use of natural light duri

voa标准英语2008年-Obama Looks To Avoid Transition Stumbles

Monday's meeting at the White House between President George Bush and President-elect Barack Obama is the latest symbol of a presidential transition that appears to be moving ahead smoothly, at least initially. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone

2006年VOA标准英语-World Oil Price Peak Disputed

By George Dwyer Washington, DC 01 May 2006 watch World Oil Peak report Rising oil prices have many consumers and business people wondering how long it will be before the price of a barrel of oil or a

VOA慢速英语2015 巴勒斯坦人将有机废物转化成天然气做饭

AS IT IS 2015-09-18 Palestinians Turn Organic Waste into Gas for Cooking 巴勒斯坦人将有机废物转化成天然气做饭 Rural communities in developing countries often have trouble securing dependable supplies ofenergy for cooking and lightin

印度使用太阳能带来光和热

AS IT IS 2015-10-13 India to Bring Light and Heat with Solar Energy 印度使用太阳能带来光和热 Hundreds of villages in rural India are using clean energy powered by the sun. This month, 61 households in the village of Baripatha in eastern I

VOA标准英语2010年-Scholar Hopes to Cool City By Covering

As Hong Kong struggles to build an environmentally friendly city, one professor is studying ways to help cut carbon emissions and lower electricity usage by covering the city's rooftops with plants. Jim Chi Yung, a geography professor at the Universi

2015年CRI ＂Reactor Relevant＂ Fusion, a Potential Game Changer in Energy Production

Fusion is how stars produce energy. It occurs when the nuclei of light atoms, such as hydrogen, are fused together under extreme pressure and heat. Tokamak Energy, from Oxfordshire, believes that the third version of their compact, spherical tokamak

每日一词【402】transition：过渡

今天我们要学的词是transition。 Transition, 是过渡的意思。A smooth transition, 就是平稳过渡。古巴总统卡斯特罗宣布辞去国务委员会主席的职务。美国总统布什表示，希望古巴能由此开始向民主过渡

VOA常速英语2007-Major Iraq Reconstruction to Transition from US

By Al Pessin Pentagon 19 October 2007 The U.S. military's effort to rebuild major infrastructure in Iraq will be winding down during the coming year, leaving the Iraqi government to fund the effort and to find engineers capable of handling the projec

Forces Will Not Back Down During Afghan Transition

NATO's secretary-general says foreign forces in Afghanistan will remain on combat duty during the scheduled transition to Afghan security control in 2014. That statement by Anders Fogh Rasmussen came after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Ame

留美老师带你每日说英文 第312期:卡路里是能量的单位

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： A calorie is a unit of energy. It's technically the amount of energy needed to heat up a kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius. 卡路里是能量的单位。他是一公斤的水上升摄氏一度

英语听力文摘 English Digest 301、清晨为何冷得发抖？

Early-morning Shivers 清晨为何冷得发抖？ 自然界、生物界都有它本身的特有的严谨的节律。人体的生物节律与自然节律相适应，人类才得以生存下来。地球上亿万年的昼来夜往，永不停息。人体的

留美老师带你每日说英文 第769期:食物的能量

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： But this measures the availability of energy in food, not the digestibility. A calorie is a unit of energy. It's technically the amount of energy needed to heat up a kilogram of water by 1 degree