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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A locavore is someone who eats foods produced locally. Locavores usually define local as within one hundred sixty kilometers. This new term grew out of a reaction to the long distances that food no

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(261) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(八)月

Politics Overtaking Science in Global Warming Debate Polls in recent years show that fewer Americans believe global warming is a threat or that it is driven by human activities. Thats despite consensus among scientists that climate change is not only

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On a cold, dull, Winter day, I sometimes light a fire after picking the children up from school. We gather around and feel cozy. The lounge where we have the fireplace also has a computer and a Wii console, so there is plenty to do for everyone. Thou

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 19 September 2006 The Getty Center is one of the leading art institutions in the United States. It is also major center for restoration of damaged art works. The Getty museum has been embroiled in recent controversies

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: I let you down. I should have acted faster and more decisively - the words of NPR CEO Jarl in an email to our newsroom. He met with NPR staff this afternoon two days after he asked for the resignation of senior vice president

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's talk about what to call a fact that is not a fact. President Trump made a string of statements at the CIA over the weekend. Our correspondent Mary Louise Kelly used this language to describe some of them. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHI

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GUY RAZ, HOST: Hey, Naomi, can you just quickly introduce yourself? NAOMI ORESKES: I am Naomi Oreskes. I'm the professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. RAZ: So it's fair to sa

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The forestry industry in New Zealand is in trouble. Forestry has always been one of our major export industries but in recent years, it has been declining. Nineteen sawmills closed this year, two in the last month. New plantings of trees reached the

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By Jim Malone Washington 27 December 2007 U.S. presidential contenders are making a final push for votes with one week to go until the first test of the 2008 election campaign, the Iowa presidential caucuses on January 3. VOA National correspondent J

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 May 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says it will be able to restore food rations it was forced to cut for more than a million displaced people in northern Uganda. As Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva, the WFP says i

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学英语单词
-babble
academic integration
acesency
acoustic transformer
alfonso
amount of capital invested
anthropophonics
Athanasianism
automatic comet-seeker
backmarsh
be born in the gutter
box-filling machine
bugher
Cairo Declaration
clamp-coupling
compressibility of information
confocal curve
crymodynia
detachment surface
die a martyr for
discharge duration curve
eccrine angiomatous nevus
enaliosaur
entrust
Eria yanshanensis
ethyl vinyl ether
euphoristic
Euzoniella
expositionary
Fabianist
fiber optic oil film sensors
floor shift
fluticasones
front opening
gauge variations
give sb an answer
grape-pickings
gubernacular
haemoglobinometer
hertz hallwachs effect
hot-spring
Huguenotic
husseini
hybrid satellite attitude control system
initial ion pair
Jaramana
Kagulu
lead-tight
long hundred
long-term station
low-level software
mathematics relation
Matão, Sa.do
misdescription
mobillette
nah mean
natal
negative grid tube
non-haemorrhage
order monilialess
overlapping strip
pack-needle
perking
polycrystalline ferrite
polyvinyl-butyral
powder bag filling machine
pretzels
Pterolobium macropterum
puerulus angulatus
reciprocal ellipsoid
river system survey
Sageretia laxiflora
salicifolia
Schischkinia albispina
Schmidt's
scratchpads
shallow system
sincodix
Sinus renalis
snout-bow
sorbyite
start and stop automatic control
step-back relay
stomal
supra-pubically
symphysis pelvis
synthetic resin emulsion paint
syringiectasia
Sysmä
tangent screw
taughtens
teemed with
temporalls
thermoplastic cements
think all the better of someone
to hold court
to shank
tonsillar
tunnel below water course
typeover mode
whale-eyde
Wright's method