巴西经济

Rob: Hello Im Rob. Welcome to 6 Minute English. My Brazilian colleague, Grace, is with me today. Hello, Grace. Grace: Hi Rob! Rob: Today we're talking about the Brazilian economy, and we'll have some language related to money and investments. Grace,

SSS 2008-05-21

This is scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? The yeast Candida albicans ekes out a quiet living in our gut. But its a tough life. It faces acids and enzymes, and the immune system always bullies invaders.

SSS 2008-06-30

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Steve Mirsky,Got a minute? A team of Finnish and American geneticists has found that that, for some people at least, music is in their genes. In what the researchers called the first study of its

科学美国人60秒 SSS Spaceflight Squishes Spacefarers' Brains

Time spent in zero G changes the body: Astronauts come home with bone loss and muscle weakness. But what happens in their heads? To find out, researchers examined MRIs of astronauts brains taken before and after flight. They looked at 12 astronauts w

TED演讲:说服 让利他精神成为你的准则(4)

They have not been trained. 他们没接受过训练。 So do you need 50,000 hours of meditation? No, you don't. 你需要五万小时的冥想吗？不，不需要的。 Four weeks, 20 minutes a day, of caring, mindfulness meditation already brings

2006年VOA标准英语-Pope Appeals for Shift of Resources to Combat W

By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 12 November 2006 Pope Benedict XVI delivers his Angelus prayer from his window, November 12, 2006 Pope Benedict XVI urged the faithful to change their style of life and consumption to alleviate world hunger. He urged a ch

VOA标准英语2012--Birth Defects Rise in Former Iraqi Battleground

Birth Defects Rise in Former Iraqi Battleground Five-year-old Lujane is one of hundreds of children in Fallujah who have been born since 2004 with severe birth defects. Her father says Lujane suffers from multiple afflictions that Iraqi doctors strug

2015年CRI China to Accelerate Developing Nuclear Power: Official

China has set a target of increasing its proportion of non-fossil energy to 20 percent of total energy consumption by 2030. China's Special Representative on Climate Change at the Paris conference Xie Zhenghua says, to achieve that goal, China is see

经济学人120:癌症与肥胖 恶性松弛

Science and Technology Cancer and obesity Malignant flab 科技 癌症与肥胖 恶性松弛 At last, an understanding of how overeating causes cancer 吃得过多如何导致癌症 OVERWEIGHT women are more likely to develop breast cancer than lean

欧元区经济增长疲软

欧元区经济增长疲软 LONDON, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Monday lowered its forecast for growth in its main area of operations, the transition European and central Asian states, to 2.0 percen

Scientists solve mystery over copycat butterflies

CANBERRA, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientist on Wednesday said his international research team has discovered the trick on how butterfly learn to change its wing pattern to avoid being eaten by birds. The Amazonian butterfly, Heliconius numata,

2007年VOA标准英语-APEC Ministers Push to Revive Stalled Global Tr

By Nancy-Amelia Collins Sydney 05 September 2007 Foreign and trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation members are pushing for ways to revive stalled global trade talks. In a meeting ahead of the annual APEC summit, top trade officia

EU in urgent need of structural reforms, Barroso says

MILAN, Italy, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- European Commission（委员会） President Jose Manuel Barroso said Saturday Europe could no longer postpone fiscal consolidation and structural reforms in order to return to growth after the economic crisis. In a

Italy's new financial bill to hurt consumption: experts

Italy's new financial bill to hurt consumption: experts ROME, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- The financial bill announced by the technocratic cabinet led by Prime Minister Mario Monti will impact negatively on domestic consumption, local analysts said on Wednes

特朗普抓住了贸易失衡的关键

Both US and European policymakers have misdiagnosed what ails the global economy. 美国和欧洲的政策制定者都错判了全球经济的困境。 It is not a short-run, cyclical problem curable with textbook Keynesian stimuli (and exotics like

TED演讲:出身决定命运?（1）

I want you to imagine two couples 我希望大家设想一下，两对夫妇 in the middle of 1979 在1979年的年中 on the exact same day, at the exact same moment, 在相同的一天，相同的时刻 each conceiving a baby -- okay? 每对怀上了

中国降准降息提振经济

This is the third RRR reduction in nearly five months, and the fourth round of interest rate cuts in nearly seven months. According to the People's Bank of China or PBOC, the latest move aims to further lower borrowing costs and boost the economy thr

拉美发展需经济变革

MEXICO CITY, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Latin America needs a new formula to achieve sustainable development, said a regional meeting before ending here on Friday. The 36th session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

2016年CRI G20 Meeting Participants Stresses Structural Reforms

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, says China is not the only economy in need of structural reforms as they are fundamental for the success of every G20 economy. lagarde says the reforms are not only necessary, b

2016年CRI China Sets Flexible GDP Target to Gain Steam for Structural Reform

In his annual government work report at the NPC session, Premier Li Keqiang announced a flexible GDP target, calling it a reasonable growth range as China is gearing up its structural reforms. The main development targets for 2016 are as follows: GDP