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Torture Interferes with Memory In the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, psychologist Share O'Mara notes that torture can interfere with the brain's memory retrieval apparatus, making it counterproductive to the aim of producing useful informatio

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(168) / 评论(0) 分类 60秒科学

Mau Mau Torture Hearing Concludes in London At the Royal Courts of Justice building in London, veterans from Kenyas Mau Mau uprising, an anti-colonial movement, are gearing up for what they hope will be the final chapter in a 50-year struggle. They a

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(八月)

Now it's time for Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program we explore expressions used in American English. People who visit our website or listen to our broadcasts want to learn English. They come freely. No one is forcing

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(六)月

This is a gripping and sometimes terrifying book that will make you look anew at yourspouse, your parents, your children, your friends, your enemies, your fellow workers and - perhaps most pertinently - your reflection in the mirror. 这是本扣人心

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

The independent U.N. expert on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, says torture is practiced frequently in many countries, and that prison conditions are often so poor they can be considered cruel and inhuman treatment. From Uni

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(163) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

Helping Victims of Torture Tuesday is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The theme is: Rehabilitation works and is a torture survivors right. June 26th is the 25th anniversary of the U.N. Convention against Torture. When we talk abou

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(六月)

Kenyans to Sue Britain Over Torture Claim Four Kenyans, three men and one woman, plan to take legal action against the British government over alleged colonial-era atrocities. Britain's High Court ruled Thursday that the elderly Kenyans can sue over

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(162) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(七月)

Annual Event Helps Torture Treatment Center For 26 years Rossana Perez has spent her free time running in a park near downtown Los Angeles. It really clears my thoughts and helps me to release stress, Perez said. Much of that stress comes from memori

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(五月)

By Scott Stearns White House 04 October 2007 The Bush administration is defending itself against reports that it authorized harsher techniques to interrogate suspected terrorists than it has previously acknowledged. VOA White House Correspondent Scot

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(177) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

By Scott Stearns White House 05 October 2007 President Bush is defending his administration against reports that it authorized harsher techniques to interrogate suspected terrorists than it has previously acknowledged. VOA White House correspondent S

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(196) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

By Kari Barber Dakar 15 December 2006 In Liberia, many are welcoming the recent U.S. indictment of Charles Taylor Jr., son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, on counts of torture. This is the first time the U.S. government has used its ant

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(229) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十二月)

Forced labor does occur in many industries, 强制劳动在很多国家都屡见不鲜, especially those where the workers are migrants or otherwise vulnerable, and this needs to be addressed. 尤其发生在移民劳工和其他弱势群体中,这

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

我们看一篇英语文章,如果里面一个单词可以用其他的词汇来替换,我们会觉得这篇文章非常的生活有意思。同样在雅思考试的口语和作文中,运用丰富的词汇量也会让自己的口语和作文提升

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(230) / 评论(0) 分类 雅思英语

今天我们要学的词是torture。 Torture, 是折磨的意思。对敌方战斗人员使用折磨的手段,前一段时间在美国引起了极大的争议。美国总统布什上星期五发布了一道行政命令,禁止对敌方战斗人员使

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

今天我们要学的词是torture。 Torture, 是折磨的意思。对敌方战斗人员使用折磨的手段,前一段时间在美国引起了极大的争议。美国总统布什上星期五发布了一道行政命令,禁止对敌方战斗人员使

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

By Jim Fry Washington 05 December 2007 Two Republican Party candidates for U.S. president disagreed sharply last week on the use a controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding. While much of the campaign focuses on domestic issues, ca

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)

An 18-year-old girl from Austria is taking her parents to court for posting over 500 photos of her on Facebook since 2009, without her permission. 因从2009年开始爸妈未经允许将自己的500多张照片放到了Facebook上,一位来自奥地

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

本期内容: Walmart, the US biggest retail chain, has been accused of trying to coerce its technology suppliers into shunning Amazon's cloud computing service. Amazon has accused its rival of attempting to bully the IT companies into picking a ri

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

Workers and labour activists have often attacked strict discipline as coercive, unfair and potentially counterproductive. 工人和劳工活动人士一直以来都在批判纪律苛刻,认为这是强迫性、不公平且可能会适得其反的东西

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

英语构词法(03)-单词构词法

发表于:2019-03-11 / 阅读(193) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇
学英语单词
a flying visit
adjusting damper
adlumia fungosas
aerocraft
antigen preparation
azimuth mark
Bacall
be justified in
Beau Champ
blind dating
boand
bomber aircrew
candid phonograph
capital of Malawi
citterach
cold shaping
coldworked
cosmopolitanized
cotman
cutter-pressure angle
deionization plant
demould
derivative control imput
desflurane
diethylpropanediol
differential carrier gasket
disobedient
double length accumulation
encowls
enfamished
ferrero rocher
figure skate
Franklin Park
full-levelling combine
Gasmata
Genac
gone bananas
grated on
Indrois
injucund
installation repository
intials
invite sb in
iris forceps
iron tramp
kime
Klichkinskiy Khrebet
line chart
Linux Security Modules
masedliche
matter of opinion
melting point of paraffin wax
midget implinger
millet black kernel smut
millionette
mixed code
multicore magnetic memory
nephrocystanastomosis
Neurodontiformes
order cost system
osmos
paclitaxel
paraganglionomas
paranuchal plate
phalanges (fore limb)
physical loss
plagiarising
polyallel-cross
positive sense
pratic
pre-arranged
psychological review
quasi-continuous
Refuin
reperfused
restricted problem
Saturn S
schoedinger
sequence list
shakuhachi
short fiber reinforced polymer composite
skirty
slide control
sour-crout
Sphenophyllopsida
stub-wing stabilizer
sugar-loaves
swimming meets
swr (standing wave ratio)
the British Standards Institution
thoria-base resistor
three-card montes
tillett
trytophan
unbroken oath
underwater bed leveling
V belt drive
warm-film anemometer
water-stroke
wikstroemia effusa rehd.
winemaking
wry faces