谁说只有双11和圣诞才能剁手,奔放的澳洲人在年底也会来一次更大的剁手,那就是年度购物盛典:Boxing Day. 反正就是买买买!

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 早安英文

Global debt sales reached a record this year, led by companies gorging on cheap borrowing costs that are now threatened by Donald Trumps pledge to fire up the US economy. 今年全球债务发售达到了创纪录的水平,主要发债方是那些积

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

历史学家和外交家约瑟夫奈从长远的角度出发,阐述了中美之间的权力转移,以及经济、政治、以及软实力的全球转移。

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:世界权势大转移

Official figures are suggesting Shanghai is now the world's largest international trading city due to the government's measures to encourage and upgrade trade. 官方数据显示,得益于政府鼓励和促进贸易的措施,上海目前已经成为

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

《Till The World Ends》是小甜甜布兰妮斯皮尔斯(Britney Spears)最新录音室专辑《Femme Fatale》中的歌曲,由电音小天后Ke$ha创作。正如Ke$ha日前在接受采访时对该单曲评论的,当你外出做巡演的时候

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 天籁音乐

The International Monetary Fund, or IMF, has projected economic outlook for 2016 and 2017 at 3.2% and 3.5 % respectively. Maurice Obstfeld is the Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Department of IMF. Global growth continues but at an increa

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

词汇畅谈(Vocabulary Build-up):recall 口语训练营(Everyday English):2018全球大学最新排名

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味青春英语

假设一种情况,如果地球上的每个人都拥有一辆车,那么我们的交通状况会是怎样?即使现在没有实现人手一辆车,但交通拥堵的情况依旧存在..... Rob: Hello, I'm Rob, welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm j

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Monday, April 7th, is World Health Day. An NGO is using the occasion to warn that 76-million older people around the world are being excluded from vital health care. HelpAge International is trying to raise awareness through its Age Demands Action ca

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Paris, Berlin and some 50 cities across France hope to stage the world's biggest fashion show next week, with up to 10,000 men and women modelling(模特) their own style on giant open-air catwalks. Held at the height of Paris fashion week which

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

全球每年60万人死于二手烟 Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health Organization (WHO) researchers said on Friday. In the first study to assess the globa

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Patenting has never been more popular. Applications have reached record levels at the world's main patent offices, fuelled by a sustained increase in applications from Asia. 专利申请从未像现在这样流行过。受益于亚洲申请数量的持

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Business 商业报道 Schumpeter 熊彼得 Unpacking Lego 拆乐高 How the Danish firm became the world's hottest toy company 来自丹麦的乐高如何成为全球最畅销玩具公司 IT IS getting harder to go anywhere without stepping on a piec

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

In the background lurks climate change, fears of which have grown with the heat and drought battering Europe's wheat crop this summer. 在此背景下还潜伏着气候变化、以及今年夏天欧洲小麦作物遭遇高温干旱打击的恐惧。

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

If you ever find yourself in the French city of Toulouse, you might just see one of the oddest-looking aircraft in the world. 如果你去过法国图卢兹,那你可能有缘一睹世界上长得最怪异的飞机之一。 图片1 Popularly known

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(102) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

In his timely new book, Easternisation, Gideon Rachman articulates a clear and persuasive idea: that recent western exertions in the Middle East, the crises that grab the headlines and consume the energies of world leaders, will be seen in the arc of

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

12. 土耳其人 Given that their homeland straddles two continents, it should be no surprise that Turkish people have a fairly cool outlook on life, embracing a diverse range of cultures, cuisines and plumbing standards. 土耳其横跨两大洲,土

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Science and technology 科学技术 Global health 全球健康 One potato, two potato, three potato 一个懒汉,两个懒汉,三个懒汉 An effort to count the world's sloths 来数一数世界上的懒汉 2_副本.jpgA PAPER in the Lancet, sha

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Why are these people now less likely to take their own lives? Urbanisation and greater freedom have helped. 为何这三类人自杀几率变低?城市化和更多自由起到了帮助作用。 Accounts of those who attempt suicide, and of the rela

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

JUDY WOODRUFF: As we heard earlier, President Obama, during a trip to the United Kingdom in April, said that it should stay in the European Union. Today, from Stanford University in California, the president gave his appraisal of yesterday's outcome.

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列