VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about George Walker Bush. He took office in 2001 as the 43rd president. He has a similar name to another president -- his father, George Herbert Walker Bush. To simplify things,

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austerity, n 节俭(严格节约,经济紧缩);简朴;艰苦 【例】wartime austerity 战时节俭 【记】au读:诶哟,sterity=sterility(n 不毛之地)-需要节俭 【反】ostentation(n 卖弄,摆阔)

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Broadcast: Feb 12,2003 More than 111,000 military reservists around the United States have been plucked out of their civilian lives and called-up to active duty, in support of the U.S. military's 2)

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Military Moms Sing Wartime Blues Away Walking into a rehearsal of the Swingin Blue Stars feels like stumbling across a group of best friends. They meet about once a week in one of their living rooms in a San Francisco suburb. They push aside the furn

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And experience in a country with enormous numbers of war wounds has led to techniques that heal them more quickly. A Harvard team developed the new technologies. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports the work was inspired by one scientist's

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Jean Thackeray can't forget her brief encounter with a German prisoner-of-war in Utah Time now for StoryCorps, this project has been traveling around the country recording everyday Americans talking about their lives. Today, a story from World War I

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Two New Films Examine Trauma of War 两部电影诊查战争伤痛 War, it has often been said, is hell. Less often noted are the ways that hell can continue for soldiers and civilians long after the

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AS IT IS 2016-05-29 Confronting the Enemy After Wartime Can Help, and Hurt A new study finds public discussion of a violent civil conflict can harm some victims who have tried to forget the pain they experienced. In a civil war, a man may sometimes f

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, D.C. 22 January 2007 watch War Presidency report President Bush's State of the Union address on Tuesday will be delivered at a joint session of Congress, where a majority now opposes his call for a troop increase in Ira

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Wartime Resistance Fighter Leads Greek Anti-Austerity Battle At 90 years of age, Manolis Glezos is still putting himself on the front line. During anti-government protests in March 2010 and again in February this year, he was tear-gassed by riot poli

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One of the issues that arise every year on the anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender is whether a formal apology will be issued. Like past years, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to adhere to the road of peace and not repeat the

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 02 August 2007 A human rights group is accusing pro-government and rebel forces in the Ivory Coast of subjecting thousands of women and girls to rape and other forms of sexual assault. In a report issued Thursday, Human Rights Wa

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France honours de Gaulle 法国对戴高乐将军表示敬意 President Chirac: Not complacent about World War ll 希拉克:不对二战胜利自鸣得意 President Chirac has opened a new museum dedicated to World War II to mark the 60th anniversary

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In Japan, hundreds of overseas Chinese have taken to the streets to protest against the CEO of APA Hotels, Toshio Motoya. The rightist hotel tycoon has come under fire after distributing and placing factually incorrect books in the rooms of his hotel

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 08 March 2007 The chief prosecutor for the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal has marked International Women's Day with a call to end impunity for wartime sexual violence. VOA's Peter Heinlein reports prosecutor Carla de

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89 newly deciphered Japanese wartime archives have been recently unveiled. While these records refute Japans denial of war-crimes against China, these have reopened wounds of wartime atrocities. Reporter Guan Yang digs deep into the archive and revis

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has expressed his personal apologies for Japan's wartime crimes during a trip to China. Hatoyama made the remarks during a personal visit to the Nanjing Massacre Museum in the eastern Chinese city of Nanj

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模仿文本: Today we go back to 1946 when, after the end of the Second World War, tens of thousands of British and European women set off for a new life with their wartime husbands all over the world. 译文: 今天我们要追溯到1946年,那

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在反法西斯战争结束70周年之际,中国纪录片《光明与阴霾-德日二战反思录》被译为英语、俄语、法语、德语、日语、韩语、西班牙语和阿拉伯语八种语种播出。 请看新华社的报道: A Chines

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