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Broadcast: August 4, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report. Safe drinking water has always been rare and valuable. Throughout the world, drinking water has to be stor

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(609) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(下)-发展与科学

Low-Lying Areas of New York City Suffer Flooding Sounds of sump pumps fill the air in low-lying areas of New York City. Don, a water systems professional in Brooklyn, has been on the job, pumping out basements since before dawn. He says the worst flo

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(十月)

Major floods are expected on the Yangtze River this year. In anticipation of that, the Three Gorges Reservoir is discharging water to make room for more when the flood season arrives. 22 reservoirs, including the Three Gorges now form a joint flood c

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(272) / 评论(0) 分类 cctv9英语新闻2016年

There's a reason for the sunshinin' sky And there's a reason why I'm feelin so high Must be the season when that love light shines All around us. So let that feelin grab you deep inside And send you reelin where your love can't hide And then go stea

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Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we look at the business of skiing and snowboarding in the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: A snowboarder catches air nea

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(二)月

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For decades, the Colorado River has fed growing cities from Denver to Los Angeles, and a lot of the produce in grocery stores across the country right now was grown with Colorado River water. Now with climate change and severe drou

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

In many parts of the world, there are four seasons: spring, summer, fall and winter. In the U.S., there are only three: football, basketball and baseball. That's not completely true, but almost. In ev

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 奥运英语

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: September 9, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For many people, growing crops on a small piece of land is not a business. For them, a

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As the migrating herds arrive in the plateaus river valleys, the spring is here. This is why they have made the journey after the famine of winter. Food is everywhere. Birds have flown in from as far away as the Arctic and subtropics. Canada geese jo

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

DEVELOPMENT REPORT – January 7, 2002: Storing Drinking Water By Gary Garriott This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Safe drinking water has always been rare and valuable. Throughout th

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TORONTO, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Toronto Raptors' bench scored a season-low seven points in a 107-96 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in NBA action on Sunday afternoon. Coming into the game, the Toronto reserves were ranked eighth in the league, averaging

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 19 May 2008 Fuel efficient stoves and ceramic water purifiers are two examples of low-tech innovations that can help people in poor countries improve their quality of life. Because what is known as appropriate technology usu

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AS IT IS 2015-07-20 Rice Farmers Worried As Dry Weather Hits Thailand 稻农担心泰国干燥天气影响稻米收成 Very dry weather is limiting the growing season of Thailands rice crop. Thai farmers are blaming the government for not doing more

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Safe Water Lowers Absenteeism 饮用安全水可降低旷课率? Reducing absenteeism in schools in developing countries may be as simple as providing students with safe drinking water. A new study indicates that, but researchers are not sure why. Th

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Scientists announced today that they have figured out the cause of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Flint, Mich., a few years ago. Twelve people died. This was at the start of the city's water crisis. And the problem was a l

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A 16th Century convent in Mexico has reemerged as water levels in a dam reservoir have fallen to low levels. Low water levels at the Malpaso hydroelectric dam in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have uncovered part of the convent, which was subm

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The living is easy. But it won't last long. At this altitude, the air is so dry that rain evaporates before it even hits the ground. The water that flows off the plateau is no longer being replaced. Already there is drought in forests beyond the mead

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Bison calves are more independent of their mothers. The adults' focus is now set on a ruthless competition to mate. A male bids to enter a herd with females in season. He uses dust to accentuate all his size and power. Another male already establishe

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今天我们要学的词是clear-cut。 Clear-cut, 是清楚的,明确的。There was no clear-cut winner in the debate, 这场辩论没有明确的胜利者。Last year's championship team is not the clear-cut favorite for this season, 去年的冠军

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The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters says water levels of 127 rivers across China have surpassed alert levels after most parts of the country entered the main flood season. 国家防汛抗旱总指挥部近日表示,全国大部分

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adjacent building
Akimiski I.
all of a sudden sudden)
alum floc
antinationalism
anxiety-inducing
as reason was
bafa golu
Bayes decision rule
bear test of time
birth-time
bloughty
boob juice
boobfeed
bordigheras
by-pass channel
chock slide
circular shed
Citellus variegatus
cleitus
construction corollary
cyclina sinensis
dalamen
decineper
defaulted
divine inspiration
drain into
emission-line galaxies
exophylactic
flight accident
franklin roosevelts
getting a clue
good-fitting
great-circles
hat-stand
Horst Wessel
inspection and testing of imports and exports
isometric (al) holohedral class
jack-fruit
kisangani (stanleystad)
knubs
kocaeli (izmit)
lake bog
laminar flow dye laser
land speculation
leukorrheal diseases
limited depositary
line radiation
litum
maintenance job
Marie Curie
middenheim
misfeasances
molluscipoxvirus molluscum contagiosum virus
morbus professionalis
mushet's steel
off-set wave
ordinary grade
outer ear
pack saddle,packsaddle
pediatrically
pedinids
penetratingness
pilea forgetii
pixel-by-pixel
preferred plan
primitive fore-gut
process drawings
put toaccount account
red-collared
resonance changer
river-irrigated land
robot control system
Root-sucker
rosano
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
sent forth a delicate frogrance
singing of repeater
single-phase voltage source
sliding calipers
sliding snout
slugfoot
specific apparent energy consumption
Spirillum schuylkilliense
split into two pieces
stock removal
tetranychus truncatus
the lithosphere
thick wall sensibility
thrombotic phlebitis
toastiness
tospovirus tomato spotted wilt virus
total combustion method
touch sb. on the raw
triangular washer
try cock
tympanic bones
undulator
unforcement
upper-limb
vesteye
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