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In the late 1920s, Hollywood producers liked coming here to the fancy Millennium Biltmore Hotel to hold business meetings. 20世纪20年代末，好莱坞制片人们喜欢来这家豪华的千禧碧丽宫酒店举行商务会议。 The story goes that it was here in 1927 that the studio's designer first sketched the outlook of the Oscar Statuette. 据说1927年正是在这里，该工作室的设计师首次画出了奥斯卡小金人的草图。 During the prel...

ECHO was instituted in 1975, and it originally stood for "Every Citizen Has Opportunities". ECHO成立于1975年，全称是"Every Citizen Has Opportunities"。 And we provide skill-building, job placement, day support, and transportation to individuals with disabilities. 我们还为残疾人提供技能培训、就业安置、日间支持和交通服务。 Our mission is to empower each individual to achieve their optimal level of p...

This is a slime mold. Cat Chang is an urban designer. But in her spare time, she likes to examine other life-forms. 这是一种黏菌。张凯特是城市设计师。但在业余时间，她喜欢研究其他生命形式。 Ever since I was a little girl, I've been interested in the natural world. We're native Hawaiian. 从小我就对自然界充满兴趣，我们是夏威夷原住民。 Our family and my grandmother would take me around her yard. She w...

Visitors come to the U.S. Botanic Garden to enjoy the variety of plants and the peace and serenity of nature. This woman works nearby. 游客们来到美国国家植物园，欣赏种类繁多的植物，感受大自然的宁静与祥和。这位女士在附近工作。 Feels like a forest in a city, so I can be thinking about something else that worked for even for 5 minutes, which is sometimes very nice. 仿佛置身于城市中的一片森林，让我能...

Researchers with NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, catch a leatherback sea turtle off the coast of California. 美国国家海洋和大气管理局(NOAA)的研究人员在加利福尼亚海岸捕获了一只棱皮龟。 The tens of millions of years old species is in serious decline, says ecologist Scott Benson. 生态学家斯科特·本森说，这个已存在数千万年的物种正在急剧减少。 Estimates are that the population...

Research published Monday shows a strong correlation between rising sea surface temperatures and a roughly 50 percent drop worldwide in the total number of open water species in just 40 years. 周一发表的研究显示，海洋表层水温上升与全球开放水域物种总量在短短40年内骤减约50%存在显著关联。 In geological history this is a blink, so it's just a wink of an eye. 在地质史上，这只是一瞬间，不过是一眨眼的工...

How do you fancy being up a mountain at a height of around 3,000 metres with the temperature below zero, snow underfoot, variable weather, racing up and downhill? This is how some athletes will be competing in this year's winter Olympics. 爬上海拔3000米左右的高山，零下零下的气温，脚下积雪，天气多变，上坡下坡，你感觉如何？ 这就是一些运动员参加今年冬季奥运会的方式。 Skimo, short for ski mountaineeri...

Since 2012, the village of Padangtegal in Bali, Indonesia has instructed its residents to sort out their garbage before disposal. Wati does this every day. 自2012年以来，印度尼西亚巴厘岛Padangtegal村指导居民在扔垃圾前先进行分类。瓦蒂每天都这么做。 When I was little, trees were everywhere. We used to burn our garbage but no longer. Now we live in modern era. 小时候，树木随处可见。我们过去...

This is Yemoga, a winning model for this year's Future City Competition. 这是Yemoga，今年未来城市设计大赛的获胜模型。 The concept was engineered by a team of middle school students from the Midwest state of Indiana. 这一概念是由来自美国中西部印第安纳州的一群中学生提出的。 The competition's theme this year-Clean Water: Tap Into Tomorrow-has asked students to focus on creating reliable supplies of c...

New York Times best-selling author Rahaf Harfoush is hosting a discussion on a new social media platform called Clubhouse. 《纽约时报》畅销书作家拉哈夫·哈弗什在一个名为Clubhouse的新社交媒体平台上主持一场讨论。 She spends at least two to three hours a day there, hosting three weekly shows, co-hosting others and listening to others still. 她每天至少在那里待两到三个小时，每周主持三档节目，与他人共同...

Driving: do we love it because it's quick and convenient, or is it just that we don't have a choice? Either way, commuting by car is becoming more common across the world. While this could mean that people are getting more mobility and freedom, could it have a cost? 驾驶：我们喜欢它是因为它快捷方便，还是只是因为我们别无选择？ 无论哪种方式，开车通勤在世界各地都变得越来越普遍。 虽然这可能意味着人们...

Medical care in the US costs more than it does in any other developed country. 美国的医疗费用比任何其他发达国家都要高。 That means surviving cancer can empty a patient's bank account. 这意味着要想治好癌症可能会掏空患者的银行账户。 When Tori Geib got her cancer diagnosis, she thought she would be okay financially. 托里·盖布确诊癌症时，她以为自己经济上不会有问题。 I just went on what they said to do...

The clock starts ticking when a mountain sheds its snowy skin. An avalanche covers all in its path. 当雪从山坡脱落下来时，时钟便开始倒数计时。雪崩掩埋了沿途的一切。 And for those trapped underneath, survival rates drastically drop after three to five minutes. 对于那些被困在下面的人来说，三到五分钟后存活率会急剧下降。 Rescuers quickly deploy alongside highly trained dogs that prepare their whole li...

As a girl Damon Sanatha dreamed of playing rugby professionally, but didn't have the money or access to training. 达蒙·萨纳塔小时候梦想成为职业橄榄球运动员，但既没钱也没机会接受训练。 Determined that no other girl should be kept from the game, four years ago, she began coaching Sebroco, a women's team in Bingerville. 四年前，为了让所有女孩都能参加这项运动，她开始执教班热维尔的一支女子球队Sabroco。...

This kitchen changes the lives of poor kids in Kenya. 这个厨房改变了肯尼亚贫困儿童的生活。 Here at Feeding the Future, cooks make some of the food that today will feed as many as ten thousand hungry kids. Feeding the Future的厨师们今天制作的食物，将供多达一万名饥饿的孩子食用。 Millions of children in Africa go to school on an empty stomach. 数百万非洲儿童饿着肚子上学。 A lot of times they make the...

So what I use is, I use organic food grade coconut flakes. I blend that with essential oils, never perfume. We use a kosher, goat's milk, glycerin base. 我用的是有机食品级椰片，将其与精油混合，从不添加香精，我们采用符合犹太标准的山羊奶甘油基底。 Maxwell Moore is having fun making soap from only the most natural organic ingredients. 麦克斯韦·摩尔正乐此不疲地用最天然的有机原料制作肥皂。 But it wasn'...

Among the at-risk species on this year's list is the Saint Lucia fer de lance, a venomous viper with an image problem. While it's not aggressive, it's highly feared, so is often killed on sight. Conservationists are working to improve perceptions of the creature. Then there's the blackchin guitarfish, which appears to be half ray, half shark. 在今年这份名单上的濒危物种包括圣卢西亚矛头蝮，这是一种...

At the heart of the deep-sea mining controversy is a difficult problem. The world needs critical minerals to tackle climate change but extracting them from the sea floor could cause serious environmental harm. This research by the Natural History Museum and National Oceanography Centre analysed the impact of trial mining in the Pacific Ocean. It found that where the mining vehicle had harvested mi...

Stand outside Chancery Lane Tube station in London and you'll probably notice the regular commuters, trendy cafes and the odd tourist. Look up and you'll see the Staple Inn, built in 1585, and one of the last remaining Tudor timber-framed facades in London. But deep below your feet, there's more history lurking. 站在伦敦 Chancery Lane 地铁站外，您可能会注意到定期通勤的人、时尚的咖啡馆和奇怪的游客...

Since I was a kid I felt like connection with food as it has been always there. 从小我就觉得与食物有着不解之缘，因为它始终陪伴在我身边。 Ever since I was born. You know my mother always, like, taking care of us. 打我出生以来，我的妈妈就一直照顾我们。 Cooking the food that I grew up with and doing the things that I do makes me feel really proud, makes me feel proud of the culture, makes me feel pro...

Saturday from the launch pad at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, the aerospace agency tested its space launch system. 周六，在美国航空航天局(NASA)位于密西西比州的斯坦尼斯航天中心的发射台上，该航天机构测试了其太空发射系统。 Rockets fired for roughly eight minutes, generating 725 metric tons of thrust while guzzling more than 2600 cubic meters of fuel to simulate internal conditions for l...

My name's Michelle Moon. I'm 54 years old. I'm a housekeeper at Days Inn in Harmarville, Pennsylvania and I've been working for this company for over 20 years. 我叫米歇尔·穆恩，今年54岁，是宾夕法尼亚州哈马维尔戴斯酒店的一名客房服务员，在这家公司已经工作了20多年。 Quite frankly, I like it here. I like my coworkers, sometimes. Far as the clients go that stays here, some is good, some is bad, some is...

Because our employees are experiencing, you know, 20 to 25 percent a day in downtime, due to the internet speed. 每天有20%到25%的时间，我们的员工因为网速慢而停工。 They're not, you know, being able to effectively do their work as efficiently as possible. We have been waiting for a year now to have fiber brought to us. 他们没办法尽可能高效地开展工作。我们已经等了一年，就等着光纤接入。 They just say...

I've been coming to Dyker Heights. Well, this is my first time actually, so he's actually taking me on a tour of Dyker Heights. 我一直想来戴克高地。实际上这是我第一次来，他正带我参观戴克高地。 Yes and I've been here several years. My parents grew up in Brooklyn. So, you know, everybody knows about it from the surrounding area. 我在这里待了好几年了。我父母在布鲁克林长大，周边地区的每个人都知道。 Ry...

I relish the day after the burn, when I get to come and clean it up and walk away from a black stain. 这里烧过稻草后的第二天，我会过来打扫干净，然后远离那片焦黑的痕迹。 It's great. I mean, something happened and there's a tiny black stain on the earth where it happened. Very simply, it makes me happy. I love it. 太棒了，有事情发生了，事发地点会在地球上留下一个小小的黑色污渍。简单来说，这让我...