英语杂谈：104 Insurance

[00:00.00]I come to have myself insured in your company. [00:01.80]我是来投保的。 [00:03.60]When should I go and have the vegetables insured? [00:05.31]我什么时候将这蔬菜投保？ [00:07.02]The underwriters shouler the responsibility

英语杂谈：95 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that an Iranian nuclear scientist, who Iran claims was abducted by U.S. agents, is in the United States on his own free will and is free to leave. The Iranian, Shahram Amiri, turned up at the Iranian in

英语杂谈：36 Health insurance

The Senate is working overtime this weekend, trying to make some headway on its version of legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. NPR's Julie Rovner has more. Among the amendments up for consideration this weekend, is one that would

英语杂谈：90 A big deal

This is bigger than the Super Bowl. This is actually bigger than the Olympics. This is really a big deal for Africa, but its also a big deal for the United States. Because you know they really have something to prove. Much of the world sees them real

英语杂谈：105 Interest rate

[00:00.00]What's the interest rate for the savings account? [00:01.93]储蓄存款的利率是多少？ [00:03.85]Interest is calculated at the rate of 0.8% per annum at present. [00:06.61]目前每年的利率是按０.８％计算的。 [00:09.36]Y

英语杂谈：33 1000 NATO troops

U.S. military says more than 1000 NATO troops, mostly from the United States, have launched a major offensive against a key Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Military officials say Afghan forces are also participating in the operation in He

英语杂谈：40 Defense

Radovan Karadzic says he will not attend the opening day of his trial because he needs more time to prepare his defense. Karadzic has chosen to represent himself and claims to have about one million pages of evidence to sort through. But that is not

英语杂谈：99 The best job

My name is Johan, I feel exhausted, already. I've been doing this job for two days and I've already lost a lot of weight,really. You can earn 100 dollars a day, maybe more than that, 200. It depends, but, it's still a good money. This is the best job

英语杂谈：75 Youth

Youth is not a time of life，it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees,it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions.it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth

英语杂谈：94 let's take a vacation

1 Introduction A Americans are very mobile, and travel is very popular for many people. In America, when people take a vacation, they often drive a car. Some families travel far within their home state once a year during vacations. Some would even go

英语杂谈：62 my mother's gift

My Mother's Gift I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age , not so long ago , when children could go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting. At the time, I did not consider this a

英语杂谈：34 The first day of your uni life - Part 1

Its time for Academic Listening - a series for students at English-speaking universities. Imagine: today is the first day of your uni life How do you feel? Excited and confident? Or maybe a little anxious? How do you think youll cope? And how can you

英语杂谈：24 Jackson Hole - Part 1

This beautiful valley was named after the nineteenth-century explorer and hunter David Jackson. After he spent a winter in the area, his friends started to call it Jackson's Hole. The valley looks like a hole in the middle of the mountains that surro

英语杂谈：25 Jackson Hole - Part 2

Some of the ways of the Old West cowboy are kept alive in Jackson Hole. In the summer, visitors can go to a rodeo to see competitions based on traditional cowboy skills. Some people say it is the truest of American sports. The rodeo usually begins wi

英语杂谈：54 The Flight of Youth

There are gains for all our losses. There are balms for all our pain; But when youth,the dream,departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again. We are stronger, and are better, Under manhoods sterner reign; Still we feel that so

英语杂谈：35 The first day of your uni life - Part 2

Initially the problems they face are probably of an academic nature, for example they go to lectures and they find that they cant understand, or they cant take notes very quickly. They have quite a lot of reading to do and don't know how to cope with

英语杂谈：70 China Earthquake Survivors

Rescuers continue to pull people out of the rubble, alive, more than one week after a massive earthquake struck southwestern China's Sichuan Province. The latest government figures confirm more than 40,000 people have died and more than 247,000 peopl

英语杂谈：27 China, U.S. eye Africa

It's a hot frontier for global investment. And both China and the US want a stake. So far this year, President Obama has visited Ghana and Egypt. Secretary of State Clinton wrapped a seven-nation African tour. President Hu stopped in Mali, Senegal, T

英语杂谈：23 Dozens of military

Dozens of military chaplains and grief counselors are heading to the Fort Hood army base in the U.S. state of Texas where a shooting rampage left 13 people dead and 30 wounded. Authorities say the alleged shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, fired at so

英语杂谈：38 Take me out to the ball--Part 1

For sports fans, August means different things. For those who follow American football, August is traditionally when players begin training. For tennis lovers, the United States Open begins on August twenty-eighth in New York City. For basketball fan