英语口语1+1:A chip on the shoulder

ESL Podcast 938 – Learning to Ride the Subway

Donny: Come on, we need to buy our subway tickets at that ticket machine. Cayla: Why cant we just get them at the ticket window? Im not sure what the fare is. Donny: Theres a long line and we need to catch a train right now. Cayla: Ive never taken th

万花筒 Kaleidoscope2007-11-04&11-05, 指纹护照

Reuters. For all Germans applying for a new passport, the experience might feel more akin to going to a police station. From now on, they'll have their fingerprints taken. Germany is introducing the 2nd phase of biometric passports. For 2 years, all

SSS 2011-05-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Whether it's for streaming Netflix or sharing files, we're gobbling up more and more dataand we want it faster. But even shooting data with lasers over fiber-o

英文短篇故事（纽约）75 Halos on Parallel Earth

On Parallel Earth, everyone knows who the good guys are. Everyone knows who the bad guys are. On Parallel Earth, everyone has two colored halos over his head. Newborns have two blank halos. As people grow older, they do and say good things and bad th

为防员工上班偷懒,瑞典公司将为其植入微型芯片

An unusual, new program is becoming the norm at a technology company in Sweden. The company, called Epicenter, offers to place a microchip in its workers. It asks them for permission to inject the electronic device in the employees body. Each microch

International transfers 国际转移

How long does it take? Bank clerk: Hello. Can I help you, maam? Mary Jones: Yes. Could you tell me how to send some money to someone with an account with a bank in Germany? Bank clerk: Well, you can pay by mail, telegraphic or SWIFT transfer. Or you

Business Channel 2007-02-15&17

Intel says it's developed a programmable processor that can perform about a trillion calculations per second. That's trillion with the T, a one followed by 12 zeros. Just to give you some perspective here. The company says it can put on a chip the si

英语访谈对话 252 Fatherhood

Todd: Norm, you have three children, right? Norm: Yes, I do. I'm very lucky. Todd: What do your Children do? What kind of jobs do they have? Norm: Well, my oldest one, he works for Frito lay, which is a company owned by Pepsi Cola. He's a regional ma

TED演讲:货币的未来(6)

Cryptocurrencies are based on a special field of mathematics called cryptography. 加密货币是基于一种特殊的数学算法，称为密码学。 Cryptography is the study of how to secure communication, and it's about two really important thin

摇滚:Parallel Worlds异度空间

英文歌词： My minds playing up, again, and someone is there, The room is getting colder now, The light swings again And I'm scared, cos someone is there, Stop messing with my mind cos now I'm.. Trapped in your world where your burning in my eyes, Yo

US Money Transfers to Somalia at Risk

The international aid organization Oxfam says thousands of Somali families could be cut off from much needed aid if a U.S. bank goes through with plans to discontinue its money-wiring services at the end of this month. Last week, a small bank in the

VOA标准英语2010年-Haitians in US Send Money to Families

Many families in Haiti are still homeless, living on the streets and not getting enough food. Haitians in the United States are trying to send money so they can buy food and water. One business in Washington, D.C. gets money quickly to people in Hait

Asthma gene found in African Americans

BEIJING, August 1 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. researchers have discovered a genetic mutation unique to African Americans that links to heighten their asthma risk, according to reports published on Sunday in the journal Nature Genetics. Researchers of Univers

原版英语对话1000个:252 Fatherhood

Todd: Norm, you have three children, right? Norm: Yes, I do. I'm very lucky. Todd: What do your Children do? What kind of jobs do they have? Norm: Well, my oldest one, he works for Frito lay, which is a company owned by Pepsi Cola. He's a regional ma

五大行手机转账免费 叫板第三方支付

China's five largest commercial lenders started providing interbank transfers and transfers within accounts of a bank via mobile banking for free on Thursday, as part of their efforts to deal with increasing competition from Internet finance companie

TED演讲:货币的未来(7)

Imagine that we had this magic paper. 假设这是张有魔法的纸。 So the way that this paper works is I can give you a sheet of it and if you write something on it, 当我把这张纸给你后，你在纸上写的任何东西 it will magically

经济学人:自由交流:数字无产者(1)

Finance and Economics 财经 Free Exchange: The digital proletariat 自由交流：数字无产者 Economists propose a radical solution to the problems posed by artificial intelligence. 针对因人工智能而造成的各种问题, 经济学家提出

经济学人340:信用卡 偷蒙拐骗

Finance and economics 财经商业 Credit cards 信用卡 Skimming off the top 偷蒙拐骗 Why America has such a high rate of payment-card fraud. 美国支付卡诈骗频发原因何在 AMERICA leads the world in many categories: shale-gas producti

【英音模仿秀】胜景即中华

模仿句子： He decants the mixture into a kettle, transfers that to his stove and sits beside it, settling his dark red robes. 房东将混合物倒入锅子，移到炉子上，自己坐在旁边，脱下了深红色长袍。