由于人类活动 地球上的树木已经减少一半

There is good and bad news about trees. The good news is there are seven times more than we thought. Scientists thought we had 400 billion trees, but we have three trillion. That's a three followed by 12 zeroes. For each person alive today, there are

TED演讲：解读羞耻(4)

What would you like for me to talk about? There's three big answers. 那你们想让我讲什么？有三个主要的答案。 This is mostly, to be honest with you, from the business sector: innovation, creativity and change. 这些老实讲，主要是

蒋健棠英语广播 Episode94:宠物对人的危害

1. researcher,研究员。 eg:The Cloud Mouse is a project of Microsoft researcher Richard Harper and his collaborators at Microsoft Research Asia. 云鼠标是微软研究员理查德哈珀和他的合作者在微软亚洲研究院的一个项目。

英语听力—环球英语 1451 Mountains Under the Sea

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英文原版对话1000个:1131 Indonesian Family

Sunny: So, Isthma, your family sounded really interesting, so can you tell me about your family a little bit more? Isthma: Yes, I have a mom, a dad, an older brother, and a younger sister. Sunny: So, in your family, who likes to read? Isthma: In my f

Researchers Identify Drug That Might Block Sexual Transmissi

By David McAlary Researchers have shown that it may be possible to prevent sexual transmission of the AIDS virus HIV with a compound now in the experimental stage. Female monkeys who received it vagin

中国首部反恐法出台

China's top legislature has officially adopted this country's first counter-terrorism law. Lawmakers have approved the legislation at the end of a week-long bimonthly session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee. The new law, which ta

书页可以提供安全饮用水

AS IT IS 2015-08-28 Book Pages Could Provide Safe Drinking Water 书页可以提供安全饮用水 The expression a thirst for knowledge may soon have a new meaning for millions of people who have no way to get clean water. Researchers have developed

科学家探索海底火山

Scientists Explore Underwater Volcanoes 科学家探索海底火山 What covers nearly 29 million square kilometers of this planet beneath the sea? The answer is seamounts. Seamounts are mountains, usually volcanoes, that rise up from the sea floor.

【英语趣味课堂】印度尼西亚的家庭-Indonesian Family

Sunny: So, Isthma, your family sounded really interesting, so can you tell me about your family a little bit more? Isthma: Yes, I have a mom, a dad, an older brother, and a younger sister. Sunny: So, in your family, who likes to read? Isthma: In my f

胖子眼中的世界：山更高路更远

Eating too much doesnt just make your waistline expand, it also makes distances seem bigger. 暴饮暴食不仅会导致腰围暴涨，还会让你觉得山高路远。 Research shows that being overweight distorts perception. 研究表明，过度肥胖

CCTV9英语新闻：Submersible Jiaolong ready for dive

China's manned submersible Jiaolong is now ready to start a deep-sea dive at seamount area in the South China Sea and carry out observation. It comes after an error occurred Thursday on its positioning system. The tasks for the dive on Friday include

CCTV9英语新闻：大学教师鼓励创业

In China, teachers in universities used to be forbidden to start businesses of their own unless they first quit their jobs. But now, in the latest measure to boost technology creation, Shanghai has been the first to lift the ban. University teachers

研究称智能设备让时间变快了

One day youre heading to the beach for a fun day in the sun and the next youre hanging lights and tinsel on a Christmas tree. 某天你可能还在去沙滩玩耍的路上，阳光明媚，转眼第二天就开始给圣诞树挂金箔灯饰了。 It

Israeli researcher develops nano-scale gyroscope

JERUSALEM, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Israeli researcher Jacob (Koby) Scheuer, from the Tel Aviv University (TAU) School of Electrical Engineering, has developed a nano-scale gyroscope, the Ha'aretz daily reported Sunday. Scheuer developed a new optic-fiber n

调查:多数人一周之中星期二心情最差

If you woke up this morning thinking the toughest day of the week had been and gone, you were wrong. Mondays may have long been thought of as miserable, but were more likely to feel down in the dumps on a Tuesday. According to researchers from the Lo

U.S. researchers find potential target for treating diabetes, obesity

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a potential target for treating diabetes and obesity, according to a study published online on Thursday in the journal Cell Metab

U.S. researchers discover way to produce biofuels

LOS ANGELES, March 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers have successfully used certain microbes to produce biofuels(生物燃料), opening a door to developing cheaper green energy. The discovery was made by researchers at the University of California, Los

U.S. researchers discover human lung stem cell

WASHINGTON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at Brigham and Women 's Hospital (BWH), a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have identified(鉴定) a human lung stem cell that is self-renewing and capable of forming and integrating multiple bi

英语听力—环球英语 1074 Mountains Under the Sea

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