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英语课

Volunteers with J.A. help students around the world understand real-life economics 1. Transcript 2 of radio broadcast:
17 July 2008


This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.

Junior Achievement is an international movement to educate young people about business and economics. The purpose is to help them prepare to succeed in a world economy.

The organization is the largest of its kind. JA Worldwide says it reaches over eight million students each year in more than one hundred countries. Programs begin in elementary school and continue through middle and high school. The education is based on the ideas of market-based economics and entrepreneurship 3.

Junior Achievement began in nineteen nineteen in Springfield, Massachusetts. Two business leaders, Horace Moses and Theodore Vail, joined with Senator 4 Murray Crane 5 of Massachusetts to start it.

For more than fifty years, Junior Achievement programs met after school. They began as a group of business clubs. The organization started with a small number of children ages ten to twelve.

But in nineteen seventy-five, Junior Achievement began to offer classes during school hours. Many more young people joined the organization once it began to teach business skills as part of the school day.

Volunteers from the community teach about businesses, how they are organized, and how products are made and sold. They also teach about the American and world economies and about industry and trade.

The Junior Achievement Company Program teaches young people how entrepreneurship works 6. They learn about business by operating their own companies.

The students develop a product and sell shares in their company. They use the money to buy the materials they need to make their product, which then they sell. Finally, they return the profits to the people who bought shares in the company.

Junior Achievement says two hundred eighty-seven thousand volunteers support its programs around the world. In the United States alone, there are more than twenty-two thousand places that hold Junior Achievement events.

Junior Achievement Incorporated 7 and Junior Achievement International combined their operations in two thousand four. They formed Junior Achievement Worldwide. Its headquarters 8 are in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Shelley Gollust and Mario Ritter. Transcripts 9 and archives of our reports are at voaspecialenglish.com along with a link to the Junior Achievement Web site, ja.org. I'm Faith Lapidus.



n.经济学,经济情况
  • He is studying economics,which subject is very important.他正在学习经济学,该学科是很重要的。
  • One can't separate politics from economics.不能把政治与经济割裂开来。
n.抄本,誊本,副本,肄业证书
  • A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
  • They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。
企业家身份
  • Spawr indeed personified American ingenuity, self-reliance, initiative and entrepreneurship. 斯帕尔看不上机构重叠和清规戒律,表现出美国人的机敏,有着独立、首创精神和企业家的风度。
  • He provides evidence that n-achievement is highly correlated with entrepreneurship. 他提供的材料表明“n--成就”与企业家精神高度相关。
n.参议员,评议员
  • The senator urged against the adoption of the measure.那参议员极力反对采取这项措施。
  • The senator's speech hit at government spending.参议员的讲话批评了政府的开支。
v.伸长(脖子);n.起重机,吊车
  • We used a crane to lift the piano into the theatre.我们使用起重机将钢琴搬进剧场。
  • Must we wait till the crane arrives before we start loading?非要等起重机来了才能装运吗?
n.作品,著作;工厂,活动部件,机件
  • We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
  • The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。
a.结合的,并为一体的
  • Many of your suggestions have been incorporated in the plan. 你的很多建议已纳入计划中。
  • These conditions must be expressly incorporated into the contract of employment. 这些条件都必须明确地写进雇佣合同之中。
n.司令部,指挥部;总部,总店
  • Several great guns from the headquarters are coming to see us today.总部的几个大人物今天要来看我们。
  • The bank has its headquarters in Pairs.这家银行的总行在巴黎。
n.抄本( transcript的名词复数 );转写本;文字本;副本
  • Like mRNA, both tRNA and rRNA are transcripts of chromosomal DNA. tRNA及rRNA同mRNA一样,都是染色体DNA的转录产物。 来自辞典例句
  • You can't take the transfer students'exam without your transcripts. 没有成绩证明书,你就不能参加转学考试。 来自辞典例句
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adjustable-bearing
aqua bulliens
aqueduct bridge
artificial rumen technique
asbestos-cement
azlon
backward forward counter
bar buoy
benoir
bilbo
blue-grass
Cedynia
cicad
Cleistogenes mutica
cloud point method
co-enzyme
comma symbol
Contact Plating
cross-shareholding
crystallographic planes
defoliating agent
differentialearning
domesticated
dongnim (tongnim)
Ensete glaucum
farmers-general
Federal Rules of Evidence
fluorescein-natrium
free air facility
genus otarias
genus sphaeralceas
get something over
gwp
hackworks
hand-delivereds
helical spline type actuator
heteroskedasticity
hexagonal close-packed structure
high-calibres
ilb
increasing failure rate (ifr)
Jesus revolution
jungle asphalitis
kelabit
laterisation
Leptothrix buccalis
lineae albicantes
low-pressure pneumatic spraying equipment
loyalists
ludibrious
lutjanus argentimaculatus
mamelon(mameron)
masakoes
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meije
micron-size
Moyen-Cavally, Région du
Nazare
nickelschneebergite
nonrenewers
pco2
peace of God
phricasmus
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polar cyclone
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potassium selenide
proacrosin
psychokym
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reaction-diffusion equation
reed type
representative module
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rhyacichthyids
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seal end plate
sell-sword
set complement
Siliquamomum
stroke cure
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Swedish anchory
telemetering sender
time average equation
to bite at...
to finish school
toddest
transfer founds
turn-on snubber inductance
tyre
us beef
valve body
vantation
varty
venders
vertical replenishment
volatile capital flows
voleur (france)
welding unit
York gum
Zathabyin