美语听力 English Cafe 04

Today's topics: Filming in LA, Howard Stern, Worst Dressed Americans, Lolita, New Macs, Dove or Pigeon?, Color Bracelets, Do you get it?

英语听力文摘 English Digest 529、夜视为何看不见颜色？

Night Vision And Humans: Why Cant We See Color? When we are in a fairly dark room, or outside at night away from lights, we can still see, but we cant see the colors of things very well. Why is that? There are two kinds of light-sensitive organs loca

Colombia honors Olympian Pajon, soccer star Falcao

BOGOTA, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Colombia on Tuesday honored its top athletes, including Olympic gold medal winner Mariana Pajon and soccer star Radamel Falcao Garcia. Pajon, winner of the BMX cycling competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games, received

美语听力 English Cafe 67

Topics: In the News: pretexting, stay the course, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, if thats anything to go by, color vs. hue, contribute vs. attribute, the die is cast Words: pretextting stay the course to mock satire parody political pundit lo

英语听力文摘 English Digest 478、日光浴床安全吗？

Are Tanning Beds Safe? Millions of people go to tanning salons, some to get a base tan before they go away on a beach vacation. The idea of the base tan is that it will protect you from burning on your sun excursion, so that what you end up with is a

英语听力文摘 English Digest 481、日出日落,傻傻分不清楚

Sunrise or Sunset? Yal: Don? Don: Yes, Yal? Y: We've been in this art museum for 5 hours now. And you've spent the whole time staring at that one photograph of sunset. D: Are you sure? Y: Of course I'm sure. You haven't budged. D: But are you sure it

英语听力文摘 English Digest 497、像雾一样的固体物质

Frozen Smoke 固体烟 Male: What's as light as smoke but strong as a brick? Female: I'm gonna take a while guess and say... aerogel ? Male: Sorry,yaoyao,the answer is... Wait a second! Did you say aerogel ? How did you know? F:Yeap! Did you know tha

英语听力文摘 English Digest 20、女人和烟

More and more women have began smoking in the last few decades. One of the reasons is savvy marketing as Don explains to Yael in this Moment of Science. D: Yael, what's that in your hand? Y: Come on, Don. Haven't you seen a cigarette before? Every da

English quotes 英文谚语 三

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars. - Robert Collier Do you think it's possible to turn ideas into money? How? What good ideas have you heard about in recent years? What's the best idea you have ever had? C

Gil: Atletico not to sell Falcao this season

Gil: Atletico not to sell Falcao this season MADRID, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Atletico Madrid's Director General, Miguel Angel Gil has assured fans the club has no plans to sell top scorer Radamel Falcao until the end of the season. Falcao had a magnificen

Boca Juniors sack coach Falcioni

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Argentine football giants Boca Juniors are seeking a new coach after parting with Julio Cesar Falcioni on Monday. Former boss Carlos Bianchi, who led the club to three Copa Libertadores triumphs in four years in the

美语听力 English Cafe 115

Topics: Professional wrestling, National Geographic, would-be versus wannabe, be my guest, why not? Words: to wrestle stage name match ring referee to pin (someones) shoulders mat tag team battle royal to diffuse not-for-profit/nonprofit circulation

英语听力文摘 English Digest 150、女人吸烟

D: Yael, what's that in your hand? Y: Come on, Don. Haven't you seen a cigarette before? Every day in the United States, about 1500 girls begin smoking, and I figured, why not do my share? D: But Yael, don't you know that tobacco kills more than 140,

美语听力 English Cafe 316

Topics: Ask an American: Libraries Using Ad Campaigns to Improve Image and Funding; making introductions; stack versus stock Words: to light up to click deficit geek mental synapse to get (ones) geek on billboard poster reaction hip to hit to introdu

美语听力 English Cafe 170

Topics: Famous Americans: Weird Al Yankovic; Alcoholics Anonymous; figure out versus realize; kind of; noun + --ee and --er Words: weird parody to make light of relevant alcoholic addicted anonymous to break an addiction sober support group to abstai

美语听力 English Cafe 289

Topics: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Joshua Tree National Park; to the extent that versus in light of versus in the face of; Im going versus Im going to; adverb placement - accidentally Words: cuckoo asylum to fake to serve (one's) sentence to an

英语听力文摘 English Digest 167、Don’t Try This at Home!

Dont Try This at Home! Heres a hypothetical scenario that is to remain hypothetical. In other words, dont do this. Okay. Youre cruising along a desert highway in your souped-up roadster, leaving the roadrunners in the dust. Unfortunately, you are not

英语听力文摘 English Digest 194、limelight的起源

Where Does The Term'Limelight'Originate You're in the limelight now on this moment of science. If someone loves being in the limelight, that means they enjoy being the center of attention. We use the word now to mean social prominence, but have you e

英语听力文摘 English Digest 256、迅捷的外星人

Zippy Aliens 爱因斯坦的狭义相对论认为物体的运动速度越接近光速，时间越慢。在1971年，物理学家理查德基廷和乔伊哈夫勒验证了这个假想。他们将4个极为精确的原子钟放在一架普通航行的飞

英语听力文摘 English Digest 267、火是什么？

What Is Fire? 火是物质燃烧过程中散发出光和热的现象，是能量释放的一种方式。火焰分为焰心、中焰和外焰，温度由内向外依次增高。燃烧过程必须有可燃物、燃点温度、氧化剂三项并存，缺一