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The Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Thad Allen, says the idea having BP step aside in handling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not going to happen. To push BP out of the way would raise a question: replace them with what? Allen says BP

交流表达-010.Affirmative Response

Affirmative Response Yes. Right. Correct. Thats it. Thats OK. Thats right. Exactly. Youre quite right. Thats quite right. Thats correct. Spot on. Youre dead right. Precisely. Absolutely. Thats perfectly correct. Theres nothing wrong with that. Nothi

交流表达-011.Negative Response

Negative Response Its all wrong. Youve got it all wrong. Youre all wet actually. Thats not correct. Youvewrong. Rubbish. Nonsense. I suppose youre mistaken there. I think I must tell you that its not true. If I may say so, its actually not the case.

应聘外企的英语提问清单

春节过后，又是一轮跳槽、求职高峰。你想在英语面试中给面试官留下一个非常好的印象吗？首先要听懂对方的问题。为了避免误解面试官的问题，我们为你准备了一张问题清单，不妨先来看

【英语时差8,16】飞行蝗虫的X翼战斗机和运动检测神经元

Don: Hey Yal, what do locusts, neurons, robots and the movie Star Wars have in common? Yal: You got me, Don. D: The answer is: Doctor Claire Rind, a [dict]biologist[/dict] and robotics expert at the University of Newcastle, England. Dr. Rind wanted t

跳槽应聘外企面试英语的常问问题

想在英语面试中给面试官留下一个非常好的印象吗？首先要听懂对方的问题。为了避免误解面试官的问题，我们为你准备了一张问题清单，不妨先来看看。 Tell us about yourself. 这是一个有关你个

TED演讲 :生命中最惨痛的时刻如何造就我们(1)

As a student of adversity, I've been struck over the years 我从逆境中学习：这些年来，我一次又一次 by how some people with major challenges 被人们如何从极大的挑战中 seem to draw strength from them, and I've heard the pop

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第137期:不确定性规避

Another of Hofstede's dimensions is uncertainty avoidance. How well does a culture tolerate ambiguity? 霍夫斯泰德的另一个维度是他的不确定性规避。一种文化可以忍受多大程度上的不确定性？ Here are the top five unce

专业术语-财务英语词汇A13

available assets 可用资产 available fiscal reserve 现存财政储备 available profit 可用利润 Avco Financial Services (Asia) Limited 富高财务（亚洲）有限公司 average 平均；平均

专业术语-财务英语词汇T1

T+2 rule T+2结算制度〔交易后两个工作天结算制度〕 tacking 按揭优先清偿 Tai Po Industrial Estate Loan 大埔工业贷款 Tai Sang Bank Ltd. 大生银行有限公司 Tai Yau Bank

U.S. shuttle Endeavour undocks from space station

WASHINGTON, May 30 (Xinhua) -- After nearly 12 days together in orbit, U.S. space shuttle Endeavour(奋进号) undocked from the International Space Station on Sunday night, NASA announced on Monday. According to NASA, the undocking took place at 11:

U.S. shuttle Atlantis docks with space station

WASHINGTON, July 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on Sunday morning after nearly two days of flight. Commander Christopher Ferguson guided space shuttle Atlantis to a docking with the station at 1

China issues emergency response to Shanxi flood

BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government initiated a level four emergency plan on Monday in response to torrential rains and flooding in northern China's Shanxi province. The National Commission for Disaster Reduction and the Ministry of C

Space Shuttle Discovery Prepares for its Final

The U.S. space shuttle（航天飞机） Discovery has completed its work at the International Space Station on its 39th and final mission, and is preparing for Wednesday's scheduled landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle success

Final Landing for Shuttle Endeavour

The space shuttle Endeavour has returned to Earth for the final time, after completing a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. NASA welcomed home the Endeavour shuttle before dawn Wednesday, after the ship glided in from a safe re-entry

shuttle Discovery lands in Florida,concluding flying career

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. space shuttle Discovery landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, ending its nearly 27-year flying career as the world's most- traveled spaceship（宇宙飞船）. According to NASA, Disc

【英音模仿秀】英国新政难堵逃税漏洞

模仿文本：We were very optimistic when we heard that the government was going to introduce this bill because you would think from this end of it that it would be a new rule that would prevent tax avoidance and tax abuse in the UK. But actually a

新西兰英语 483 Tax Avoidance

The Supreme Court today said that two orthopaedic surgeons owe the Inland Revenue more money. They each sold their medical practice to a company but they were the boss of the company. The company then employed them to do exactly the same job and paid

CCTV9英语新闻：EU members to exchange multinational tax data

The European Union countries have reached an agreement to exchange information on the tax affairs of multinational companies under new rules. The rules are aimed at stopping multinationals from avoiding paying their fair tax shares. The measures take

【英音模仿秀】联合国严打逃税

模仿句子：Well, that was The Apopalyptics with their anti-tax-avoidance rap Money on An Island. The group made that to try and lobby European governments to clamp down on tax avoidance where multinationals use loopholes to avoid paying up. 翻译：