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Hello and welcome to Trend UK, your shortcut to popular culture from the British Council. In the next few minutes were going to be talking about new words and phrases. New words enter the English language all the time, in fact English has always been

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Amber: Hello, I'm Amber, and you're listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Entertainment today, we listen to an interview with a woman who - in the 1980s and 90s - put the word 'supermodel' in the dictionary! She's Elle Macpherson. Elle began her b

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Earlier this week we talked about the thermostat setting in new low: one hundred thirty-five point eight degrees below zero. That was temeperature reading in Axx in 2010 and some researcher say it could be the lowest temperature ever recorded on eart

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Amber: Hello, I'm Amber, and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Entertainment today, we listen to an interview with a woman who - in the 1980s and 90s - put the word supermodel in the dictionary! Shes Elle Macpherson. Elle began her brilli

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It's change that can broaden opportunity, or widen inequality. 这场巨变能够带来机遇，也会扩大不公。 And whether we like it or not, the pace of this change will only accelerate. 无论我们喜欢与否，这场巨变的进度只会越

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New York Like all great cities, New York has an indefinable aura 1 all its own. Rather than diminish that aura, the events of September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed jetliners into the World Trade

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Good morning, Honorable judges, dear teachers and close friends. Ive very glad to stand here to share my speech with you. Today Im going to talk about: Green Beijing, Green Olympic. Green, stands for the environment, is the color of the earth. With t

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Ethiopia Awaits Influx of Refugees from Sudan and South Sudan Humanitarian agencies are preparing for an influx of refugees into Ethiopia from both Sudan and South Sudan. Civilians, mostly women and children, are fleeing fighting and violence in bord

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Charity Workers Say Time Running Out to Help South Sudan Refugees More than 100,000 refugees have fled conflict in Sudans war-torn border states. Since June, just weeks before the country split, they sought refuge in the newly-independent south. But

VOA标准英语2012--Aid Workers Struggle to Cope with Syrian Refugee Influx

Aid Workers Struggle to Cope with Syrian Refugee Influx Early afternoon at the Bab al-Salama Camp on the Syrian side of the Turkish border. Aid workers are distributing food to people waiting to become refugees in Turkey. The Turkish government is al

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Stark warnings over the inability of the international community to cope with record numbers of refugees forced to flee war zones provided the grim backdrop to events marking World Refugee Day on Saturday. According to the UN High Commission for Refu

学个词Learn a Word 第1048期 Influx

今天我们要学的词是influx。 Influx, 意思是流入，涌入。 Local animal shelters saw an influx of stray dogs at the peak of foreclosures, 破产房高峰期间，当地宠物收容所流浪狗的数量大幅度增加。目前，美国职棒

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Most of the nine million residents of the city Hangzhou were actively encouraged to get out of town as security was ramped up. Factories were closed so the visiting world leaders could breathe less polluted air. Car travel in Hangzhou was restricted

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The art market 艺术市场 Fairly popular 相当流行 The rapid growth of art fairs is changing the way galleries operate 艺术品集会的快速发展正在改变画廊的运转方式 That won't fit in the living room 那并不适合放客厅里

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Caps on how much individuals can borrow, in the form of maximum loan-to-value (LTV) and debt-to-income ratios, are another option. 以最大价值贷款比(LTV)和债务收入比率的形式限制个人贷款上限是另一种选择。 A recent IMF s

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The U.S. military says it launched an airstrike against a top al-Qaida linked terrorist in Libya wanted for a deadly 2013 attack on a gas plant in Algeria. Libya's internationally recognized government says the airstrike killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar Sat

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After studying English as a foreign language for more than 10 years in her native Spain, attending summer courses in neighboring England and visiting New York, Washington, D.C. and other U.S. cities on vacation, Lorena Arroyo affirms she still hasn't

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Stark warnings over the inability of the international community to cope with record numbers of refugees forced to flee war zones provided the grim backdrop to events marking World Refugee Day on Saturday. According to the UN High Commission for Refu