每日一词【107】set the stage

今天我们要学的词组是set the stage。 Set the stage的意思是为某件事做好准备，提供条件。比如，希拉里.克林顿06年再次当选参议员，为她08年竞选总统提供了条件 -- The reelection set stage for her pres

克林顿&老布什携手募捐赈灾

Anchor: Keeping you up to the minute, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell just finished an interview with former presidents Clinton and Bush who are heading up a fundraising effort for the victims of hurricane Katr

First stage of Egypt's draft constitution referendum ends

CAIRO, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- The first stage of the referendum of Egypt's draft constitution ended Saturday night at 11:00 p.m. local time (2100 GMT). Due to the high turnout, the closing time of the referendum was extended from 7:00 p.m. local time (1

双语：女生表达“喜欢你”的十个小动作

1. For more than 40 years, researchers have been cataloging the non-verbal behaviors women use to let men know they're interested (and vice versa). One important category of flirting includes the oldest trick in the book: hair tossing。 1. 相关专家

面试不忘问这三个问题

Getting an interview for that dream job is a perfect chance to sell yourself and you need to make sure that you get everything right. 得到一份理想工作的面试机会也将是一个推销你自己的绝佳时机，当然你也需要确保一些都

VOA标准英语2014--阿富汗准备总统大选

Afghanistan Readies for Presidential Run-off 阿富汗准备总统大选 KABUL Security is tight in Kabul as Afghans prepare to head to the polls to choose a new president from the two remaining candidates, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, in a ra

VOA标准英语2014--Company Gets Up Close and Personal With Skyscrapers

Company Gets Up Close and Personal With Skyscrapers NEW YORK Historic landmark buildings, museums, the United States Capitol - all seen from top to bottom just inches from ones face. To get there you have to be an engineer, an archaeologist, and part

CNN Marketplace 2006-02-16

This business update is brought to you by Verizon Online DSL. New Fed Chair Ben Bernanke delivered his first report on the economy before congress today, saying we've snapped out of the end of the yea

陨落星辰第一季 第108期:上尉决定去侦察

Matt, what are you doing out here? 马特，怎么在外面坐着 I was working with uncle Scott when that guy Pope showed up. 我与斯科特叔叔工作时，那个叫珀普的家伙出现了 Look... I know that you want to help, 听着...我知道你

美国建筑商信心降至一年来最低

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. builder confidence for newly- built, single-family homes fell to the lowest level in a year in May as the recovery of housing market is cooling, a leading industry report said Thursday. The builder sentiment index

美国建筑商信心指数继续下降

WASHINGTON, April 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. builder confidence for newly-built, single-family homes continued to drop in April, indicating the market had been losing momentum since the beginning of this year, a leading industry report said on Monday. The b

Rodriguez takes stage and overall lead in Vuelta

MADRID, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Joaquin Rodriguez won his second stage of this season's Vuelta de Espana (Tour of Spain) cycle race, which finished in the town of el Escorial on Saturday. Rodriguez was the strongest finisher on the steep ramp at the end

想码出好文章？慢点打字吧

Let's face it, not everybody's equally gifted when it comes to getting their thoughts down on paper (or the digital equivalent). But according to a new study, there's an easy trick anybody can do to improve the quality of their writing: just type mor

自我激励（英文励志）

To be able to motive yourself, or self-motivation, occurs when a person has the desire and willingness to do something and is internally motivated to do it. Sometimes it's very difficult to get ourselves moving and achieve what we want to achieve. Th

CNN 2008-09-14

Hello, everyone. I'm Asieh Namdar again at the CNN Center in Atlanta, let's take a quick look at what's happening with Hurricane Gustav, I mean Ike. Hurricane Ike is slowly losing steam as it moves over Texas. It's now a Category-one storm after roa

互联网让我们过度自信

Scientists have discovered that use of internet search engines and databases such as Google and IMDb.com to find information is making people lose their memory. 科学家发现，常用谷歌（Google）和互联网电影资料库（IMDb.com）等搜索

巴西总统的支持率在上升

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雾霾让更多地区发布红色预警

Zhang Hengde is a forecaster with the National Meteorological Center. The highest level can be expected on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Heavy smog will be seen in central and south Beijing, central and west Tianjin, central and north Hebei, north S

职场女性“野心勃勃”不亚于男性

After decades of glacial change in gender roles, a new generation of working women is proving to be as ambitious as their male counterparts, as measured by their eagerness to move up the career ladder。 Based on a unique long-term study of attitudes

女生表达“我喜欢你”的十个小动作

女生表达我喜欢你的十个小动作 1. For more than 40 years, researchers have been cataloging the non-verbal behaviors women use to let men know they're interested (and vice versa). One important category of flirting includes the oldest tric