BEP 133 ADV – Sales and Interviews: Elevator Pitch

In this Business English Podcast, were going to look at delivering an elevator pitch. A sales pitch is a presentation designed to introduce a product or service in order to convince people to buy it. An elevator pitch is a very short presentation des

SSS 2011-10-26

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Used to be if spies wanted to eavesdrop, they planted a bug. These days, it's much easier. Because we all carry potential bugs in our pocketssmartphones. One t

SSS 2009-09-25

Every year, millions of monarch butterflies fly thousands of miles to alight in one specific forest in Mexico. How do they know what direction to flutter? Scientists had thought that an insect GPS system in their brains steered them in the right dire

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60秒科学:Perfect Pitch Related to Language

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EXPLORATIONS - How Two Programs Altered Music and Photography BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS, in VOA Special English. Today we talk about two hugely influential computer software tools. Auto-Tune is

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China Releases HD Satellite Images

On June 6, China published the first batch of photos captured by Gaofen-1, China's first high-definition earth observation satellite. Those pictures will provide valuable information of natural condition and disaster prevention. Li Dong has the detai

2015-07-01 BBC:巨石阵行动:被埋藏的秘密-3

The most ambitious of these studies is the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, led by experts from Birmingham University And Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in Austria.-As people walk over the Stonehenge landscape, they are aware of Stonehenge. They may

60秒科学:Mice Sensing Leptin Stave Off Diabetes

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60秒科学:Genetic Link For Perfect Pitch?

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今天介绍的俚语是pitch in，pitch in是什么意思呢？最常见得意思是一起帮忙，做出贡献(to join in and help someone with something). 例句： If you could pitch in a little we'd be finished quicker. 如果你能帮忙一下，

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