THIS IS AMERICA - Social Scientists Rethink City Living SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell you why an economist has written a

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1. generation,世代,一代。 eg:The antiques have been handed down to them from one generation to another. 这些古董世代相传传到了他们手里。 2. mass,大量的,大规模的,大批的。 mass extinction,物种大灭绝。 eg:We want to

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Julia Sweeney (God Said, Ha!) performs the first 15 minutes of her 2006 solo show Letting Go of God. When two young Mormon missionaries knock on her door one day, it touches off a quest to completely rethink her own beliefs.

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A: Are you going to vote? B: Yes, but not for the person youre voting for. A: Why not? B: I dont like him. A: Whats wrong with him? B: Hes not too smart. A: Thats not true. B: I dont agree with his policies, either. A: I think he is a great candidate

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And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, 第二点,学术能力已经成为衡量好学生的主要标准, because the universities designed the system in their image. 这种标准是那些大学

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We often have a tendency to overthink life and end up making it more difficult than it needs to be. 我们经常会什么事都想太多,最终把人生变得更加复杂,其实人生本不该复杂。 Living from your head as opposed to your hea

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