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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week marked Barack Obama's first month as president -- and his first major action as commander-in-chief. He approved seventeen thousand more troops for Afghanistan. The security situation is getting w

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(二)月

As you've probably experienced firsthand, some mosquito species have a real taste for warm, human blood. So much so that if you raise them on it the lab, they'll accept no substitute. Fortunately, I don't get major reactions at all. Brad Main is a mo

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Why dont you ever take me out to dinner? Ginger screamed. All my girlfriends go out to dinner with their boyfriends at least once a week. They go to nice restaurants and they have a good time. Then they call me up the next day and brag about what a n

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 22 November 2006 Reconstruction in central and southern Iraq has been hindered by the ongoing violence. But in northern Iraq's relatively calm Kurdistan region, some 2,000 South Korean troops are on a mission to help

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十一月)

By Efam Dovi Accra 20 October 2006 Ghana has agreed to a U.N. request to contribute more troops to the peacekeeping force in Lebanon. The West African nation already has 700 soldiers serving in Southern Lebanon, where the security situation remains

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(160) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十月)

By Paula Wolfson White House 29 May 2006 Americans are honoring their war dead on this Memorial Day holiday. President Bush spoke for the nation at a ceremony at the country's largest military cemetery. A lone military bugler saluted his fallen comr

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By Scott Stearns White House 17 February 2006 President Bush says peace in Sudan would help end attacks by Ugandan rebels based in southern Sudan. Mr. Bush also called for more troops to protect Sudan

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(163) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(二月)

By Sonja Pace London 16 June 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced he will send additional troops to Afghanistan to boost force levels in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida supporters. VOA's Sonja Pace has details from London. B

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ROME, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Italy lacks the necessary energy(能量,活力) and strength for an economic revival while unemployment and poverty are on the rise, warned a report issued Friday. The 44th edition of the Censis think tank social survey, the

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(146) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

In Africa's battle against malaria, two low-tech tacticsinsecticides and bed netshave done a decent job killing off mosquitoes. But it's mainly one species that's been affected. That's a species called Anopheles gambiae, sometimes called the African

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年Scientific American(八)月

THE MAKING OF A NATION - April 18, 2002: Synopsis: 1920-1940 By David Jarmul VOICE 1: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (Theme) History usually is a proce

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By Sarah Simpson Lagos 15 June 2007 Military officials say gunmen have abducted more foreign nationals working in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. News of the hostage-takings come a day after the release from prison of a prominent militant leader, hai

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(六月)

The Ant and the Dove An ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning. A dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the strea

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 英语杂谈

A landslide near Kaikoura blocked the road and railway from Picton to Christchurch on Friday night. While small landslides on the narrow road near Kaikoura are quite common, this is the biggest one ever in this area. It is about 100m long and covers

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By Benjamin Sand Kabul 14 March 2006 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up a two-day visit to Afghanistan Tuesday. The newly elected Canadian leader told reporters that the foreign troops

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(202) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(三月)

By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 03 April 2007 In February, U.S. and Iraqi troops began new security operations in Baghdad to bring spiraling sectarian violence under control. VOA's Margaret Besheer reports that in one district of the capital, joint U.S.

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 April 2007 Officials in the breakaway republic of Somaliland say their forces clashed with troops from the semi-autonomous Puntland region earlier this week over a disputed strip of desert that has been the source of violence

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Sunny: Did you hear the news? Nancy and Brian are splitting up. Igor: How long have they been married? Sunny: Eight years. Im sure it was the seven- year itch. I bet Brian was unfaithful to Nancy. Igor: How do you know? Maybe it was Nancy who had a w

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

今天我们要学的词是glitch。 Glitch是小的故障或是瑕疵。A technical glitch, 是指技术上的故障,a security glitch, 是指安全方面的漏洞。The developers postponed the release of the new software due to a technical glitc

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You might not think there would be that many people in the world prepared to devote lifetimes to the study of something so inescapably low key, 你或许会认为,世界上不会有多少人愿意花毕生的心血来研究那个不起眼儿的东西

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学英语单词
anabsinthin
box corrugated board
bulkcheap
capitals of finland
cepstrum vocoder
chaetodon octofasciatus
closeness of relationship
Coelospermum
coffee hour
commercial negotiable instrument
conjunctival ulcer
consecutive prices
conversion effectiveness
Dabuleni
data error detection
deacetylpanicutine
decency
deeds poll
disk unit (disk drive)
distributed winding
divestitive
dodecamerizes
dooly
dopamine agonist
earmoulds
electric mixers
Elymus submuticus
Eppenberg
Erigeron tianschanicus
error correction signal
flag smut funguss
FOT,fot
frosting agent
fructus aurantii
fusion piercing drill
general-in-chief
genus Hyaena
give a hard time
golden heather
grain piler
great case
great-circle track
gsmnp
hard arbitrage
Haystack antenna
hinged bar
hydrangea xanthoneura diels
hypophosphatasias
impurity level
in my life
inferiorize
junk conference
kurti (korti)
lackaday
locked-rotor temperature-rise
loricatas
low wear
macroeconomic
metering administration system
methodian
microprogram computer
mobile conveyor
multiaddress calling
narrowband fm
nemoralis
oil content alarm
operating loss
out-friend
out-knave
panacean
parasplenic
parieties
Percheron
pilaff
pre-cast
pulling lifeboat
quarter with
rainwater leader
rescue plan
rhinoceroslike
rhodotorulosis
rice downy mildew
rod sucker
rush around
rusheth
Saperavi
scavenging arrangement
selectively permeable membrance
semipunctate
soil compactness
soundsuits
speckle
strip and group system
Teine-yama
torans
torrone
Villeneuve-sur-Allier
viridian
ycarped
yin constipation
Yli-Kitka
zheng