Russia Must Fix Crisis it Caused in Ukraine On February 27th, 2014, Russian military forces, wearing masks and no military insignia, infiltrated Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, took over the Supreme Council of Crimea and proceeded to capture strategic s

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(六月)

Mail's here. Let's see. 邮件到啦,来看看有什么 Mom, you got a new Zoobook. 妈,新一期的《动物园那些事儿》 Ooh, it's the penguin one. 喔,这期是讲企鹅的 Looks like you boys got a package. 你们有一个包裹 It's f

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 初来乍到第三季

Books and Arts 《图书和艺术》版块 Johnson: Lost without translation 约翰逊:因没有翻译而错失 Language problems bedevil the international response to crises 语言问题困扰着国际社会对危机的反应 Sitting on a muddy fl

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Tornillo, Texas: A Small US Town and a Big Crisis Tornillo, Texas, is a small farming community in the southwestern United States. It sits along the Mexican border, a short drive from the city of El Paso in West Texas. A month ago, the federal govern

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Screwing up is part of life. Even great geniuses make mistakes. When you do screw up, however, what's important isn't the screwup (that's history) but what you do afterward. Here's a step-by-step approach: 生活中总有时候我们会把事情搞砸,

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[全屏观看] 点击右键- 另存为 可保存这个Flash影片 游戏说明: 方向键的键跳跃, 键左右移动,鼠标控制枪的方向,左键射击

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Tom? Here. 汤姆? 这里。 Anna? Here Denise. 安娜? 我在这里,丹尼斯。 And Paul? Yes, yes I'm here and there's no need to panic. That was just a fire drill a practice. 保罗呢? 我也在,大家不要惊慌。刚才只是消防演

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Yet he chose to embrace his enemies instead, while forcing his own party to compromise. 但是他选择了拥抱自己的敌人,同时迫使他所在的政党去妥协 And Trudeau pushed everyone to stop thinking in tribal terms 特鲁多促使大家

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Number two, there's power in promiscuous thinking. 第二,胡思乱想的力量 Another striking similarity among good problem-solvers is that they're all pragmatists. 另一个好的问题解决者的显着相似点是他们都是实用主义者 T

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And like all hipsters, he could be infuriating at times. 跟所有的潮人一样,他有时候也会愤怒。 But he nevertheless pulled off one of the most progressive transformations any country has ever seen. 然而他却开启了一个在任何国

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And over the next 18 months, they together passed an incredibly comprehensive set of reforms. 接下来的18个月,他们一起通过了一系列令人难以置信的全面的改革方案 They busted open Mexico's smothering monopolies. 他们破除了

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The proof? When Pena was sworn in, the pact held, 证据呢?当培尼亚宣誓就职时,协议也签订了 and Mexico moved forward for the first time in years. Bueno. 而墨西哥也在这么多年来第一次朝前发展。非常好 So now we'v

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Take Canada: when Trudeau took office, he faced two looming dangers. 就加拿大而言,当特鲁多就任时,面临两大潜在的危险。 First, though his vast, underpopulated country, badly needed more bodies, 首先,尽管他这个地广人

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Not only are there theoretical fixes; those fixes have been tried. 这里不仅仅有理论上的修复,这些修复已经被投入试验 They've worked. And they offer hope for the rest of us. 并且是起作用的。这也为我们其他人提供了

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PBS高端访谈:墨西哥城正面临日益严峻的用水危机GWEN IFILL: Violent protests continued in Mexico today. Demonstrators clashed with police in Acapulco, as anger mounted over the disappearance of 43 students. Late last week, three men d

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Science and Technology 科技 Rare earths and climate change 稀土与气候变化 In a hole? 陷入了危机? Demand for some rare-earth elements could rapidly outstrip supply 某些稀土元素可能很快会供不应求 MANY plans for reducing t

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奥巴马默克尔通过电话讨论乌克兰危机 WASHINGTON, March 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday urged Russia to form a contact group that will lead to direct dialogue between Ukraine and Russ

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In addition, the illegal fur and pet trades have made this wildcat a near-threatened species. 此外,非法的毛皮买卖和宠物交易使这种山猫有绝种的危机。 学习重点: 1.illegal 非法的 illegal (adj.) 非法的 legal (adj.) 合

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Experts say Iceland's strong sense of community has solidified its so-called happiness maintenance, which is a consistently high happiness rate even when the country is in crisis. 专家表示,冰岛人强烈的社会意识巩固了当地所谓的幸

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LONDON, Aug. 27, (Xinhua) -- Britain's armed forces are working on contingency plans for military action as a response to the chemical weapons attack in Syria, media quoted Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman as saying Tuesday. Claiming unaccept

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