I asked the gentleman operating the ambulance if they would favor me by visiting the polling place one block from my residence at the firehouse. I have a lot of respect for the elderly soul,you know, I don't mind, especially when he said he was a Wor

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2010年

以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 NPR边听边练

ballot, ['blət] n/v 投票,抽签 【例】I balloted for him 我投他的票。 secret ballot 无记名投票 【记】ball球,lot多-好多球儿。大家见过世界杯分组抽签吗?把每个队的名字分别放在球里,再进行抽签

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 不择手段背单词

今天要学的词组是cast ballot。Cast ballot就是投票。美国是多种族的国家,有的政客以为 voters can be counted on to cast ballots along racial lines -- 他们以为选民们肯定会按照种族的界限来投票。结果呢?

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(40) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

大卫俾斯麦向我们演示了一种新的投票系统,它以一种简洁,可验证的方式来避免投票中的舞弊和误算,同时保护每个投票人的隐私。

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:世界权势大转移

1. How does the election work? 1. 大选是怎样运作的? Britain's parliament has 650 members. Any party that wins an outright majority of 326 or more seats can form a government. 英国国会有650名成员.任何党派只要获得不少于326个席

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

Vote 投票 Voting is a way of expressing a person's voice. 投票是表达人们心声的一种方式。 In democratic countries, important things are decided by people's votes. 在民主制国家里,重要的事情是由人们投票决定的。 I

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 与美国小学生一起学英文第4册

AS IT IS 2015-05-14 Free Trade Deal Fails in US Senate Test Vote 美国参议院就自由贸易协议测试投票失败 A proposed 12-nation Pacific Rim trade deal has failed in its first major test in the United States Congress. The Senate voted Tue

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(五)月

AS IT IS 2016-08-05 Can Hackers Break into U.S. Voting Machines? 美国投票机遭黑客入侵? Recent attacks on American computer systems have raised concerns that electronic voting machines could be future targets. 最近对美国计算机系统的

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(八)月

AS IT IS 2016-09-19 Californians to Vote on Ending Death Penalty 加州将投票是否废除死刑 Californians will vote in November on whether to stop using execution as a form of punishment, or reform the legal process leading up to the death sent

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(九)月

Want to know which candidate a woman is likely to support for president? Look at her ring finger. It may sound like the start of a joke, but the fact is most married women say they'll vote for US President Bush. By nearly 2-to-1, unmarried women say

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

In Miami, we've commissioned and artist, a young artist named Atomico, 在迈阿密,我们委托一个艺术家,年轻的艺术家阿托米卡, to create some vivid and vibrant images for a new series of I voted stickers. 去创作栩栩如生的

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

Imagine where this country would be if all the folks who in 2010 created the Tea Party had decided that, 想象一下这个国家将会怎样,如果所有2010年创建茶党的人 you know, politics is too messy, voting is too complicated. 认为政治

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

It's no accident that democracy and theater emerged around the same time in ancient Athens. 无怪乎民主和剧院同时出现于古代雅典。 Both of them yank the individual out of the enclosure of her private self. 民主和戏剧都把个体从

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

The Joy of Voting project isn't just about joy. It's about this passion. 选举的快乐项目并不只是关于快乐。这是激情。 It's about feeling and belief, and it isn't just our organization's work. 也是感受和信仰,不是只有我们

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

Why bother? The game is rigged. My vote won't count. 为什么非要投票呢?选举被操纵了。我那一票不起作用。 The choices are terrible. Voting is for suckers. 选举的结果很糟糕。选举都是骗人的。 Perhaps you've thoug

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

Voter turnout is being described as heavy across much of Lebanon as citizens turn out to vote for a new parliament. Local television stations are reporting few incidents of violence in a country marred by a history of sectarian conflict. 黎巴嫩公民

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年6月

Her boyfriend Orlando Bloom recently attracted headlines when he was photographed paddle boarding in the nude during the couple's summer getaway. 近日,奥兰多?布鲁姆在和女友凯蒂?佩里夏日度假时被拍到光着身子划船,一度成

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Voting habits 投票习惯 Movers and voters 搬家与选票 Why moving house makes people more right-wing 为何搬家会让人更右翼 DO PEOPLE move to Conservative bastions in shires and small-town England because they tend to vote Tory? Or do t

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

The gay vote 同性恋投票 Coming out 公之于众 The Conservative Party is winning over some gay voters 保守党争取到一些同性恋的投票 True pink 纯粉色 WHEN the Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, decided to champion same-s

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列