英语听力:自然百科

In the predawn hours from high in the Wasatch Mountains, Salt Lake City looks like dancing fireflies. You're climbing to an elevation of 11,000 feet, just to make a morning meeting. Forecast is for increasing clouds, one to three today, four to five

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Nothing whets the appetite for a road trip quite like America's Wild West. Plan your trip along the Colorado River Scenic Byways and you'll be treated to a natural spectacle like no other. Just take U-9 Zion Park Scenic Byway, ride into Zion National

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In this small town in Provence, they are gathered to give thanks for their blessings. Saint Antoine gave us truffles, the villagers of Richerenches sing at the annual truffle mass. They are even willing to pay for it. The collection plate is filling

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Hi everyone! I'm Petty Kim. Today our destination is Japan, a country that steeped in tradition, but one that also lives on the cutting edge of the future. It's one of the few places in the world where tradition and change go hand in hand. A place bu

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Hello, I am Petty Kim. We're packing our bags for Brazil on a journey that'll take us from some fabulous beaches to the unspoiled depths of the Amazon rainforest. Not to mention, one of the biggest festivals in the world. Roughly the size of the cont

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Gaston Santos Senior is famous across Mexico. In a 30-year-career, he's fought 2,000 bulls, becoming a legend in a sport many consider appallingly cruel. Is there no violence in hockey or boxing? It's in our nature. We have become predominant in this

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Mecca sits in the western mountains of Saudi Arabia, in a sanctuary roughly 100 mile square. Since long before Islam, it has been considered sacred territory where no one could hunt, cut trees or fight. At the heart of the city is a great mosque call

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For centuries, the winds of the Indian Ocean have brought explorers and merchants to the island of Zanzibar. Through rough seas and monsoon weather, one ship has sustained trade and travel, the Dhow. At 150 feet, this is the biggest Dhow constructed

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The numbers of tigers in the wild in South East Asia have dropped by more than 70% a little more than a decade. That's the claim in a new report from the WWF. The organization says there were an estimated 1,200 tigers in the Greater Mekong Region dur

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This menacing-looking squid is just one of many species out of sight and out of mind that could be threatened by human activities far away from the part of the ocean in which they live. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has released this v

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With record-breaking cold temperatures in Florida this week , efforts to save tropical sea turtles on the beaches are paying off. Beginning last week when the cold snap began, NASAs Kennedy Space Center teamed up with Floridas Fish and Wildlife Conse

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In this edition, we head to Hawaii, home to some of the worlds most active volcanoes and if you measure from the bottom of the seafloor to the top of the peak, home to the worlds tallest mountain, too. Hawaii, a land cradled by the sea, a land born o

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Hi, Im Paddy Kim. Ireland, its an exciting mix of the old and the new. Here youll find the quiet of the countryside and the exuberance of the city. But Ireland is still well stocked of this glorious castles and windswept landscapes, it really is the

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Hi, everyone. I'm Patty Kim. Today we're headed for Southern Africa, a place that holds something for every traveler, for every budget: cosmopolitan cities, world-class safaris, not to mention record-setting sites that'll take your breath away. Here'

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Hi everyone. Im Peddy Kim. Get ready and pack your bags for the playground known as New Zealand, a country whose people are nicknamed for their famous flightless bird, the kiwi. New Zealandit was discovered by humans less than a thousand years ago, t

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Hi, Im Petty Kim. This country is close enough to Antarctica to have its very own species of penguin. Would you believe its South Africa? And thats not all. Here are a few more surprises. South Africa is a country of contrasts in the far north bands

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Hello, I am Patty Kim. Get ready to explore Peru, home to stunning beaches, majestic mountains and of course, one of the most unforgettable places on earth, the great ruins of Machu Picchu, where the Mighty Inca once ruled. Roughly twice the size of

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Were heading now to west and central Africa, well this region probably didn't get as much exposure as the rest of Africa, but for the intrepid traveler, that's just one of its many charms. You see, less tourists means more chances for you to meet loc

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Hi, Im Patty Kim. We are taking off for Egypt, to one of the most extraordinary sights in the world. The Pyramids at Giza just outside Cario built to honor the ancient Egyptian rulers. These iconic pyramids attract thousands of people every day. Now

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Hi, Im Petty Kim. Whether you are on a mission to see some of Europes finest art, sample cutting-edge(领先的) cuisine or simply just soak up the cultural ambience(气氛), France can seduce you with it all. A Paris, known as the City of Lights and

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学英语单词
1-canadine
a blinding flash
a-ga
above ground aqueduct
accumulator side piece
adder's-grass
affixal
against someone's will
agropyron
alloyable
amygdala cerebelli
anpromine
anticancer, anticancerous
apikuro
appositionally
asynchronous phase splitter
Audubon, John James
caudal neural arch
cholinergic system
clapotis
coefficient of effective aperture
Cremosuxidine
crusading
culicoides (culicoides) lanyuensis
cyberdisinhibition
Daubert standard
Defense Technical Information Center
demand certificate
Desclidium
dotriacontanoic
dry copper
duchin
electronic stroboscope
English translucent china
exponential decline of oil production
eyin'
face of tooth
fair comment and criticism
fidgetted
German chamomile oil
Hagedorn's needles
horizontal bar
Huab
hydronyms
incontemptible
insurance for impaired lives
Internet traffic management
keep for
lampshade
left lumbar lymph nodes
lichen atrophicus
lisner
lost weight
mattlis
Murinae
national patent collection
non-inertial coordinate
non-wood forest product
Parker board
perigene
piezoelectric transducer
plain water filled roller
plane ashlar
poolcathode
portal vein (or portal system)
pressure period
profit-sharing securities
profit-sharing security
programmed digital logic
pseudopolydora gigeriosa
rediscussed
requestings
rescindible
rhamnus hemsleyana schneid.
Salvesen Cove
sanitation departments
service window
shaping machine
shmoo plot
South Bass I.
specific potential energy of volume change
stewardess dysmenorrhea
sub-tropical
submortuarian
supermarket computer answering service
superstandards
tawite
terminal designation
time-delay closing relay
tooth load
transitional leukocyte
triipalmitin
ultra-HD
underseek
understitch
upthrusted
vacuum-spark ion source
valid ballot
Vanderbilt University
Wetschen
wracking moment
zeolitic copper deposit