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夏说英语新闻晨读 第407期:人类探日最近距离
本期内容: US space agency Nasa has launched its mission to send a satellite closer to the Sun than any before. The Parker Solar Probe rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The probe is set to become the fastest-moving manmade object i
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第408期:隐形眼镜不可冲进下水道
本期内容: Researchers in the US have been investigating the final journeys taken by disposable contact lenses. They found 15-20% of US users simply flick these fiddly lenses down the drain via the bathroom sink or toilet. The study suggests tha
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第409期:前联合国秘书长安南去世
本期内容: World figures have been paying tribute to former UN secretary-general and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan, who has died at the age of 80. Current UN chief Antonio Guterres hailed him as a guiding force for good and Russian President Vladimi
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第410期:疯狂的亚洲富豪主宰票房
本期内容: Warner Bros.' highly-anticipated Crazy Rich Asians dominated the box office this weekend with $34 million, making history for Asian American representation. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Kevin Kwan, the eagerly a
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第411期:人工猪肺移植成功
本期内容: Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig. To create a new lung, experts used a scaffold that provided structural support and slowly built up the lung tissue around it, using cells from the pig that was
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第412期:全球异常变暖将持续
本期内容: Thenextfewyearscouldbeanomalouslywarm,accordingtoanewstudy. Researchershavedevelopedamathematicalmodeltopredicthowaverageglobalsurfaceairtemperatureswillvaryoverthenextfewyears. Theresultssuggestthattheperiodfrom2018to2022couldseeanin
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第413期:健身前后该吃什么?
本期内容: Scientists have known that what you eat before and after you exercise can make or break a workout and possibly affect your fitness results. It turns out that quality carbohydrates are important for pre-workout and lean proteins post-w
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第414期:希斯罗入境排长龙
本期内容: Delays at Heathrow Airport passport control left passengers queuing for up to two and a half hours last month, figures show. On 30 out of 31 days in July, the border force missed its target of a 45-minute wait or less for 95% of visit
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第415期:小米海外推新品
本期内容: Xiaomi has unveiled a smartphone with high-end features and a budget price, under a new brand. The Poco F1 features the latest Snapdragon chip, a larger-than-normal 4,000mAh battery and up to eight gigabytes of RAM - matching Samsung'
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第416期:摩托罗拉抄袭门
本期内容: Smartphone brand Motorola has been criticised for revealing a shameless copy of the iPhone X as its new model. Many phone-makers have copied the look of the iPhone X, which has a smaller bezel around the screen and a notch at the top
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第417期:特斯拉退市乌龙
本期内容: TeslachiefexecutiveElonMusksayshewillnolongerbetakingtheelectriccarmakerprivate, justtwoweeksaftersayinghewasconsideringadeal. TheplanwascancelledafteraboardmeetingonThursday, hewroteinapostpublishedonthecompany'ssite. SinceMrMuskanno
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第418期:伦敦诺丁山狂欢节
本期内容: Scotland Yard today hailed the Notting Hill Carnival asafe and spectacular success as party-goers welcomed a rise in police numbers. More than a million revellers descended on west London for Europe's biggest street party, which took
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第419期:象牙缉私犬
本期内容: A ground breaking technique looks set to turn man's best friend into a trafficker's worst nightmare. It will allow dogs to sniff out ivory, rhino horn and other illegal wildlife products hidden in large shipping containers, using a ti
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第420期:美国墨西哥达成贸易协定修改协议
本期内容: The United States and Mexico have reached an agreement to change parts of NAFTA, the trade deal that President Donald Trump has derided for years as unfair. Trump announced the agreement from the Oval Office Monday. But the deal left
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夏说英语新闻晨读 第421期:宝洁申请奇葩商标
本期内容: Procter Gamble has applied to trademark acronyms that are common in text speak. If successful, terms including LOL (Laugh Out Loud), NBD (No Big Deal) and even WTF (What The F**k, too rude to spell out here)could be used to market pro