美语听力 English Café 445

Topics: Movies Titanic; The Ford Motor Company and the Model T; holiday versus feast versus celebration; impunity versus retaliation versus notoriety; to think of versus to think about Words: maiden voyage iceberg to sink fictional flashback architec

There's a hole in my Bucket

There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, a hole Then mend it, dear Goofy, dear Goofy, dear Goofy Then mend it, dear Goofy, dear Goofy, then mend it Wit

科学美国人60秒 SSS Model Black Hole Re-Creates Stephen Hawking Prediction

Black holes got their name because light can't escape them, beyond a certain radiusthe event horizon. But in 1974 Stephen Hawking proposed that quantum effects at the event horizon might cause black holes to benot completely black. Hawking said that

56. This Hole in the Ground

There was once a farmer who lived near a road. It was not a busy road, but from time to time, cars passed the farm. Near the farm gate, there was a large hole in the road. This hole was always full of

比尔·盖茨接受网友公开提问 大谈成功之道

As the richest man in the world, Bill Gates is no stranger to success. 作为这个世界上最富有的人，比尔盖茨对成功并不陌生。 So when the billionaire tech mogul and philanthropist offers insight or advice, it's smart to listen. 所

SSS 2010-10-05

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to the University of Manchesters Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their investigations of the two-dimensional material graphene

VOA标准英语2008年-It's a Big Year for 'Tin Lizzies'

As the 19th century rolled into the 20th, a young entrepreneur named Henry Ford boasted, I will build a car for the great multitude. He tried and tried, naming each of his models of what was then called the horseless carriage after a succeeding lett

VOA慢速英语2014 3D技术拯救生命

3-D Technology Saves Lives 3D技术拯救生命 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Three-dimensional technology -- known as three-D -- gives depth to objects that would otherwise appear two-dimensional, or flat. Three-D makes movie

英语词汇：什么是QR码？

请看相关报道： Quick Response codes(QR code) have been used in advertisements for years, and a handful of American funeral homes began attaching them to gravestones in early 2011. 快速回应码在广告界已经使用好几年了，有一部分

TED演讲 :飞向海洋(3)

And then our mothers tell us, Careful you don't fall down, because you'll fall over. 然后母亲告诉我们，没有跌倒也要小心，因为你还会掉下来。 Now, go into the real atmosphere of this planet. 现在，进入这个行星真正的

TED演讲 :飞向海洋(2)

Well, it's the relative importance. 就是二者间的相对重要性。 You would say-yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know this;water covers twice the area of the planet than dry land. 也许你会说，是，是，是，我们都知道，地球上水覆盖的

英语听力：自然百科 伊拉克古物重现原貌

The same technology used to make prosthetic limbs is now being used to clone some of the world's earliest manuscripts from Mesopotamia, an area near modern-day Iraq. When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, thousands of artifacts were stolen from museums in

60秒科学:Genome: Now in 3-D!

Genome: Now in 3-D! In a study in the journal Science, researchers report the mapping of the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, and the finding that the cell's nucleus is divided into two regions, one where DNA goes to get expressed. Cy

微信、QQ的“头像”用英语怎么说？

2009年的一部3D大片《阿凡达》让很多人都记住了avatar这个词。在网络上搜索这个词，出来的结果大部分也都跟这部电影有关。其实，avatar并不是导演造的一个词，它在印度教中指圣人的化身。

音乐咖啡厅:Rihanna再度牵手Justin Timberlake(Hole In

音乐咖啡厅:Rihanna再度牵手Justin Timberlake(Hole In My Head) Artist：Rihanna Song：Hole In My Head [00:06.66]You got a hole in your head [00:09.79]You got a hole in your head girl [00:13.10]You got a hole in your head [00:16.19]You got a h

This Hole in the Ground

There was once a farmer who lived near a road. It was not a busy road, but from time to time, cars passed the farm. Near the farm gate, there was a large hole in the road. This hole was always full of water, and the drivers of the cars could not see

Down the Rabbit Hole　

Down the Rabbit Hole Alice and her big sister were sitting on the grass. Her sister was reading a book, but Alice had nothing to read. She looked at her sister's book again. There were no pictures in it. What good is a book without pictures? She wond

英闻天下——152 3D Printing in Beijing

An employee carefully scans a man standing still behind two photographic lamps with a gun-like scanner in his hand. The whole process takes approximately 10 minutes. After loading the data into the computer, the rest work is left to the 3-D printing

留美老师带你每日说英文 第241期:3D打印的立体数字模型

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： We start with a digital, 3 dimensional model of the object we'd like to 3d print in sugar. 我们一开始先画出想用糖3D打印的立体数字模型。

TED演讲 4D打印机的诞生(2)

So I'd like to propose that we can combine those two worlds, that we can combine the world of the nanoscale programmable adaptive materials and the built environment. 所以我建议把这两个世界结合起来，把纳米级上可程序化、能自我