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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Baseball Terms: This Is a Whole New BallgameBy Shelley Gollust Broadcast: Sunday, August 13, 2006 Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. Baseball is A

美国国家公共电台 NPR Merck Pulls Out Of Agreement To Supply Life-Saving Vaccine To Millions Of Kids

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The pharmaceutical giant Merck is pulling out of an agreement to sell a lifesaving vaccine to poor countries at a reduced cost. At the same time, the company has just started sending the vaccine to China, where it will likely be

VOA标准英语2013--Estranged Family Gets Sports Fix in 'Trouble With The Curve'

Estranged Family Gets Sports Fix in 'Trouble With The Curve' In Trouble With The Curve, Gus Lobel knows more about scouting new talent for baseball teams than anyone else in the business; but his failing eyesight and old-fashioned attitudes may end h

NPR 06-29:The Learning Curve of Gratitude学会珍惜每一天

After suffering a life-threatening illness, singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter had time to reassess her priorities. She came to believe in more fully appreciating the blessings each day brings From NPR News, this is weekend edition. I am Liane

体育美语-020 Throw a curve ball

P: Hey Yang Chen why are you playing Hail to the chief? I thought we were a sports show - are we going political? Y: Not really. You see, Patrick, the presidential election is in its final stretch - the home stretch - the final lap - just like in长跑

英语大赢家 下册 196.Scene 9.Topic 4节约用水 Water Saving

The development of the nation has created many problems. People are using more and more water resources. Also, development has created problems such as pollution, which further limits the water supply. Therefore, water has become an important topic i

Saving It

A priest was taking a shortcut through an alley one day and came upon a young boy who was masturbating. My son, you shouldn't be doing that, said the priest. You should be saving that for when you get married. The embarrassed boy hung his head down l

企业家成功的5大要素 乔布斯全都有

No one could have taught you more about starting a company than Steve Jobs, and I had the privilege and honor of working for him in the Macintosh division of Apple. 没有人能够比斯蒂夫乔布斯给你更多关于创建公司的指导了，而笔

Lesson 91 - PASS THROW A CURVE / THROW FOR A LOOP

to throw a curve to throw for a loop 美国人在打棒球时经常喜欢发曲线球，使球的方向会发生突变，这样给对方造成错觉，不能回击那个球。这和其他球类运动，

英语口语大赢家Topic196:节约用水 Water Saving

在卫生间雪莉和一个陌生人搭上腔，两人讨论起补妆所需的化妆品和化妆品品牌等。两个人到底谈论了些什么呢？ Listen Read Lear The development of the nation has created many problems. People are using more and more water resources. Also, development has crea

天籁音乐:Air Supply-All Out of Love

Air Supply（空气补给乐队）1976 年成立于澳洲，1980年进军美国乐坛，当年即取得惊人成绩，首张专辑《迷失爱中》（Lost in love）先后有九首歌曲打入当年流行音乐排行榜前10名，从而走向了其超

VOA标准英语2011--Saving Lives, Saving Money With Childhoo

Saving Lives, Saving Money With Childhood Vaccines Efforts are underway to speed vaccine development and delivery in 72 countries over the next 10 years. New studies say that would save the lives of more than six million children and save billions of

英文歌曲：Britt Nicole - Who You Say You Are

Yeah, yeah. You know my name. I know You wrote my story-y-y. But there are days, I can't see a happy ending. No, no. Life get's hard. Sometimes it just hurts. It's kicking me down and throwing me curves. When I feel the rain. I won't be afraid. 'Caus

英文蓝调歌曲：Britt Nicole - Who You Say You Are

You know my name. I know You wrote my story-y-y. But there are days, I can't see a happy ending. No, no. Life get's hard. Sometimes it just hurts. It's kicking me down and throwing me curves. When I feel the rain. I won't be afraid. 'Cause I know, I

源自棒球的英语词组

棒球有美国国球之称，因此很多习语都和棒球有关就不足为奇了。看看下面这些棒球术语，你知道它们是什么意思吗？ on the ball：机灵，有见识 这个词组源于20世纪早期的美国棒球运动。如果

美国习惯用语:470 beanball; curve ball...

今天又要学两个在总统大选年里新闻界时常会用到的习惯用语，而且这两个习惯用语还是从美国人最心爱的消遣活动: 棒球赛中借用来的。 这两个习惯用语都和用牛皮制成的结结实实的棒球有

英伦广角 2012-01-21 英国宣布天然气降价

Blaine G Scottish power customer ,but last year another firm YIYANG build him 3,000 pound by mistake ,even though he won't their customer, after few threatening letters .he eventually receive hundred pounds compensation from YIYANG 75 pound from the

专家:恐怖袭击有章可循

Random acts of violence are, well, random. It's the unpredictable nature of terrorism, after all, that makes it so terrifying. But according to The Mathematics of Terror, an article by Andrew Curry in the latest issue of Discover magazine, acts of te

音乐咖啡厅:Remember when

Remember when-- Alan Jackson Remember when I was young and so were you And time stood still and love was all we knew You were the first, so was I We made love and then you cried Remember when 曾几何时我年轻过你亦如此 时光静止你我除爱别无所知 我之初

China to continue regulating land supply for housing construction

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China will continue its regulation of land supply for housing use in 2013 to promote the stability of land market and healthy economic growth, a senior land and resources official said on Friday. Xu Shaoshi, minister of l