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Broadcast: August 4, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report. Safe drinking water has always been rare and valuable. Throughout the world, drinking water has to be stor

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(602) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(下)-发展与科学

Here I was interrupted and informed that a stranger wished to see me down at the door. I went and confronted him, and asked to know his business, struggling all the time to keep a tight rein on my seething political economy ideas, and not let them br

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TEPCO Prepares for Critical Periods of Fukushima Clean-up 东京电力公司准备进入福岛核电站清理工作的关键阶段 From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Workers at t

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Anne Muir. Voice 2 And Im Colin Lowther. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 The sound of thunder. Lightning

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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

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – January 7, 2002: Storing Drinking Water By Gary Garriott This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Safe drinking water has always been rare and valuable. Throughout th

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The Springfree Trampoline won the US Childrens Product of the Year Award this year. Springfree was designed by Professor Keith Alexander of Canterbury University Mechanical Engineering department. He designed it because he wanted a safe trampoline fo

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Dave needed to pack for Saturdays fishing trip. He went into his hall closet, where he had more than 20 rods and reels. Nowadays he went fishing twice a year at Big Bear, a huge lake in southern California about 7,000 feet up in the mountains. Califo

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1. The crisis continues at a Japanese nuclear plant. A drop in water levels left uranium rods completely exposed today. And although the water was restored, the rods are again exposed after a second episode. That increases the risk that radiation wil

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Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight program. Im Joshua Leo. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 On A

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Franklin's Lightning Rod Served Political Ends 富兰克林发明的避雷针竟有政治色彩? Besides helping to create the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin of course invented the lightning rod. Which sits atop buildings and protects

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Brett was sitting at Greeley Square Park near Macy's. A feather floated to the ground. He looked up. A curved metal bar connected a street pole to a traffic light. Two rods supported the bar. Pigeons stood almost shoulder to shoulder on the 20-foot-l

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Cats And Colors You can look at that quilt your cat is curled up on and see a patchwork of greens, blues, and yellows. Your cat, however, cannot see color variation in the quilt. And here is why. Both humans and cats depend on the back layer of the e

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Well, it is really nice here, Ben. 本,这里真不错。 Although I agree, the sun is very hot today. 虽然我同意你说的,但是今天的天气太热了。 Yeah. I'm sweating, and I'm just sitting here! 是啊。我只是坐在这里就浑身

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This coming Sunday the second Sunday in May is Mothers Day, a day when children do something special for their mother. One tradition is to give their mother breakfast in bed. Shops try to make Mothers Day a commercial event and encourage people to bu

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Under Fire, TEPCO Prepares for Critical Phase of Fukushima Cleanup TOKYO Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan are about to embark on one of the most critical aspects of the clean-up: removing the fuel rods from one of the

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When I Hit The Ground Artist:Ace Enders And A Million Different People I tried my best to leave The broken parts of me In the hallway where I wait To watch you walk away I wonder if I run If I chase you, would you come? I just know that something's

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On a recent weekend in Atlantic City, a woman won a bucketful of quarters ata slot machine(老虎机,一种赌具). She took a break from the slots for dinner with her husband in the hotel dining room. But first she wanted to stash (贮藏,隐藏

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Voice 1 Hello. Im Rachel Hobson. Voice 2 And Im Marina Santee. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 3 I was going acro

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Cats And Colors 人类能够很容易的分辨出不同的颜色。那么猫呢?虽然猫的视力很好,即使在非常昏暗的光线条件下也能看见,但它对于如何分辨不同的颜色似乎并不擅长。 Cats and Colors on this mo

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学英语单词
abatement of pollution
ACTEONOIDEA
ad deliquium
adida
afrobeat
angellca laxifoliata diels
arrival sale
Balantidium suis
be executed
black bindweeds
c.d.f
carbon adsorption
Ceratomyxa
cochleary
coded
concrete-reinforced
conical collector
cryoclinometer
Cubaite
Cyananthus dolichosceles
cytodesma
demography
dignathus
disjunctively
double-tuned
droolingly
Dāmiyā, Jisr (Damiya Bridge)
elevator canvas
environment description statement
Foreign Policy Association
fueling gear
Gallimimus
galloping pattern
gimme five!
Goodenough, Cape
hard pine
heat transfer passage
holmium oxalate
Hongseong
hyperboloid
Hypomagnesemia-Hypercalciuria
increment of roll
inflammability of natural gas
international farad (f)
inverted engine
Karlštejn
kolstad
kvitch
LL (load limiter)
local surtax
longinosporin
machining robot
malie
MAOSRAM
model select program
neclect
nepaulite
neurocare
non-cereal
nonrebreathing valve
nonspecific infection
northmore
Oechsen
orderly flow
otaka
ovicaprine
plan layout
pointed-leaf maples
police baton
product particle
pure community
residual sulfur
residual water pressure
Rio Casca
Ruianji
sciotherical
Scutellaria anhweiensis
self-scanned linear array
sequential coding
silver stars
smashie
special criminal court
spiral superheater
stableairs
stibnate
subcutaneous blow hole
subtropical convergence zone
sulfoxylate
sumario
swamp nuts
swoly
synodus binotatus
to originate
torridincolid
transapical axis
travel in
trinity master
tuokko
twin-boom carriage
valuable holder
Velāchha
worked rubber