疯狂英语听力 The cosmetics

The cosmetics [00:01.04]妆海沉浮 [00:02.09]Across all cultures,across all centuries,we've painted our bodies,marked our faces with ochre and ashes,mascara and rouge. [00:08.03]跨越不同的民族，历经不同的年代，我们一直在身体上

英文杂志-Tobacco

Being old is when you know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions. (Anonymous) Six months before she died, my grandmother moved into an old people's home and I visited her there when I was in Britain. She was sitting in the living room wi

SSS 2009-10-29

From Chernobyl to La Oroya, Peru, the world is littered with toxic wastelands, the residue of human industry. For the past two years, the Blacksmith Institute, an environmental health organization based in New York City, has been cataloguing the worl

国家地理-2008-06-12 Lost Pyramind Found 发现新的金字塔

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the bottom part of an unknown pyramid in the Sakkara area about 18 miles south of Cairo. NationalGeographic explorer-in-residence Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Anti

如何成为福尔摩斯 第18期

These were permissive times, and in 1970, one legendary director finally brought his long-harboured homage of Holmes to the screen. 当时性风气相当开放。1970年，一位传奇导演终于将他对福尔摩斯的长久敬意搬上了银幕。

Biosolids

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: October 28, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers have long put animal waste on their fields. They may also use human waste. Mode

2006年VOA标准英语-Final Election Results Show Iraqi Shi'ites

By Ben Gilbert Baghdad 20 January 2006 Iraqis stand in front of giant election ballot billboard in Baghdad Shiite religious parties in Iraq came up short of securing a majority in the new parliament a

CNN 2010-10-09

This town here has sort of been going through clean-up. People are trying to salvage things from their houses, but the reality is when you talk to them, there's nothing they can salvage when has been touched by this red toxic chemical mix. People sho

SSS 2009-11-16

It seemed like a good ideabecause rivers and ponds in Bangladesh were contaminated with bacteria, Bangladeshis switched to wells. But soon after, in the early 80s, researchers realized those wells were harming Bangladeshis with a new poisonarsenic. T

SSS 2010-12-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Life on earth requires six basic ingredientscarbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorus. Those six elements are the building blocks for DNA and R

NPR 2010-12-03

The US House is expected to vote this hour on whether to extend expiring tax cuts for everyone, including the wealthy. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports the issue's been generating heated debate. Democrats say they want to keep lower tax rates from middl

食品方面的词汇

A acceptable daily intake (ADI) 每人每日容许摄入量 acclimatization 气候适应 accumulate 蓄积 acetylandromedol 乙酰柽木醇毒 acceptable risk level 可接受的危险水平 acid-forming food 成酸性食品 Achromobacterium 无色菌属 Act for preventing the adulterati

VOA常速英语2008年-Shi'ites, Sunnis in Baghdad Swap Homes to Avoid

By Deborah Block Baghdad 15 February 2008 Thousands of people who fled Iraq because of sectarian violence, after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, have been returning in recent months. But the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says 2.5 million pe

VOA标准英语2012--Tests Show Levels of Arsenic in US Rice

Tests Show Levels of Arsenic in US Rice Two hundred different types of rice and rice products tested by both the non-profit research group, Consumer Reports, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA], contained varying levels of different forms

TED演讲：温和的成功哲学(7)

And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. 我去找他们聊聊西方艺术中最伟大的几个悲剧故事。 I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, 我想知道他们会如何露

英语听力：自然百科 Lost Pyramind Found 发现新的金字塔

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the bottom part of an unknown pyramid in the Sakkara area about 18 miles south of Cairo. National Geographic explorer-in-residence Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Anti

园艺专业英语

A alternate bearing 大小年结果 amendment 调理剂 ample 充足的 anatomical 解剖的 aneuploid 非整倍性（的） anion 阴离子 annual 一年生植物，一季生植物 anther 花粉囊，花药 anthocyanin [植]炭疽病 antibiotic 抗生

如果特朗普是种食物,他是啥

If President Donald Trump were a food, what food would he be? 如果特朗普是种食物，他会是啥？ If Trump were a food hed be a creampuff filled with poisoned and infectious cream filling. The gooey cream would be chock full of lead, mercur

报告指出 北京雾霾毒性已经有所下降

The proportion of hazardous metal toxins in PM2.5 in Beijing has decreased for the past three years, which experts lauded as the initial achievement of the city's anti-smog measures. 过去三年，北京市PM2.5中对人体有害的金属毒素的比重

Get enough sleep

Get enough sleep I have a theory about sleep. My theory is this: everyone who routinely uses an alarm clock suffers from chronic sleep deprivation. Using an alarm clock a few times a year (to catch a plane or have a phone call with someone in another