Speaking of Olympic trivia, the Sochi Olympics are already breaking many records. Probably the most surprising is the cost of the games. According to some estimates, this will be the most expensive Olympic Games ever, summer or winter. In fact, at 51

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It is well known that Bill Gates is a Harvard dropout. Bill Gates, however, is no way the first successful and prominent Harvard dropout There were many students before him who had dropped out of school and turned out be successful people in differen

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By Parke Brewer Lee Lai Shan competes in women's windsurfing, or Mistral, competition. Her first Olympics was in 1992 in Barcelona, where she placed 11th. But she won the gold four years later in Atla

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The year 2016 will be remembered for a long time by sports fans around the world. The Summer Olympic Games took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Major sports leagues celebrated champion teams that had not won titles in a long time. And the world mour

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Sports stars dont come bigger than this man and now simply because his seven through six. Yaoming is the symbol of chinas loathly Olympic ambitions, and the country now searching for new heros. You might say the yao is far bigger than now. Yaoming i

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[00:00.00]Hey,Tony.嘿,托尼。 [00:02.63]Come and watch the football match on TV!过来看电视转播的足球赛! [00:05.31]OK.What's the score?好的。比分是多少? [00:08.22]Spain scored a minute ago.西班牙队一分钟前得分了. [00:1

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That's the United Kingdom might be going through right now. The country's economy has been downed recently. If the UK is in recession, it will be the second one in 4 years. It's not the only coutry dealing with the economic problems though. China has

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The London Olympics are about to begin, and spectators will again be riveted by feats that would have been impossible when the modern Olympics began in 1894. Jaw-dropping records are attainable in part because of the advances in materials science. Ne

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The London Olympics are about to begin,and spectator will again be revited by feats that would've been imposibily when the modern Olympics began in 1986. Jaw-dropping records are attainable in part because of advances in material science. New materia

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Todd: OK, so Julia, I felt we would talk about social unrest. Julia: OK. Todd: So recently in the news there has been a lot of protest, there's been some riots and I believe in your country you actually had riots recently. Julia: We did, yeah, in the

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讲解文本: opening ceremony 开幕式,开学/开业典礼 ceremony 典礼 The opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics is coming, I am so excited! 里约奥运会开幕式就要来啦,我超兴奋的。 -Are you gonna watch the opening ceremony?

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Modern Olympic Games Review 1964 Olympics, Tokyo The 1964 Tokyo Games were the first to be held in Asia. Twenty six years after Japan's wartime government forced the Japanese Olympic Committee to resi

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by Mignon Fogarty I have been deluged with questions about how to pronounce the name of the year. The two main contenders are twenty-ten and two thousand ten. Before the turn of the century, most people pronounced the years by chunking the first two

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I think this is going to be the greatest hockey tournament in the history of the world. - USA Hockey Executive Director David Ogrean The men's Olympic ice hockey tournament at the 2010 Games in Vancouver is expected to be one of the most competitive

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英公司为避奥运拥堵 让员工留宿太空舱 Company installs space pods to help staff avoid commute during Olympics With roads and tube lines set to be more congested than ever this summer a few people may be tempted to use it an excuse for

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LONDON, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Top seed Zhang Jike of China beat Jiang Tianhyi of Hong Kong, China, in five sets to cruise into the men's singles semifinals at the Olympic table tennis tournament on Wednesday. The world champion, world number one and hot

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With the Chinese delegation gearing up for the start of the games in less than four months, all of the competing athletes who have won medals in previous Olympics will be looking for further success in Rio. The Chinese national shooting team have bee

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TATABANYA, Hungary, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Hungary beat China 10-8 in a women's water polo friendly game in here on Saturday. The match was a warm-up for the Olympic women's water polo tournament which begins on July 30 in London. China led after the fi

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今天我们要学的词是household name。 A household name, 意思是家喻户晓。 Michael Phelps has become a household name after winning eight gold medals in the Beijing Olympics, 菲尔普斯在北京奥运会上赢得八枚金牌后,已经成

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LONDON, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The volunteers' queue for uniform collection is a long one, winding all the way round the industrial warehouse in Canning Town, an area in which 68% of locals are of a non-white ethnic background. Numbered tickets are issue

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