John Lennon - Imagine Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today... Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine

发表于:2018-12-14 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 英语歌曲收藏之一

AS IT IS 2016-06-23 Islamist Extremism in America: Is Religion the Problem? 美国伊斯兰极端主义:是宗教问题吗? The mass shooting in Orlando, Florida this month was the worst in modern American history: 49 people killed, and 53 more were

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(七)月

I used to scoff vi.(at)嘲弄,嘲笑at the idea of Minute Rice. I mean, are we really in such a hurry that we cant wait, like, 10 minutes for a regular old bowl of rice? Well, yes, yes we are. And fast food may be making matters worse. Because a st

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Religion is very important for most of the worlds people. Almost everyone believes in a religion. There are hundreds of different religions. The biggest ones are Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. There are other big ones, like Sikhism and J

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今天这个日子对Tom来说真是终生难忘,由于最近表现突出,他被任命为副经理,晚上公司开了个party,老总还在酒席间连续三次表扬Tom。席间,大家说的最多的一句话就是:Congratulations. This i

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AT A time when Americans are worried about their crippling political divisions, it is pleasing to report that two social scientists, Robert Putnam of Harvard University and David Campbell of the University of Notre Dame, have just written a book that

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Mans Law or Gods Law? Americans Debate Religion in Government 美国人在政府讨论宗教 Hundreds of supporters cheered when a local government official, Kim Davis, was released from jail Tuesday. She smiled and appeared to cry. I just want to gi

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2015 is on our doorsteps. 虽然对我们中国人来说,元旦根本不算真正的新年。但是美国人过新年可是热火朝天。今天Jenny, Jason就要带你领略美国人疯狂的新年派对。离不开酒精、kiss、and some more al

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Books and Arts; Comfort, joy and disagreement 文艺;抚慰,欢乐与不合; Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion. By Alain de Botton. 给无神论者的宗教:无神论者使用宗教的指南。Alain de Bott

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Hamas and social services;Food not bombs 文艺;书评;哈马斯和社会服务; 食物不是炸弹; Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector. By Sara Roy. 加沙的伊斯兰抵抗运动与公

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For all his brilliance, real science accounted for only a part of his interests. At least half his working life was given over to alchemy and wayward religious pursuits. These were not mere dabblings but wholehearted devotions. He was a secret adhere

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Take this, for example, he said, and in his deep voice once more began to read, 就拿这一段为例,他说,然后就以他那深沉的声音念了起来, A man grows old; he feels in himself that radical sense of weakness, of listlessness, of

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They could practice their own religion and speak their own language, and in many ways they benefited from all the good things the Romans brought, such as roads. 他们可以保持自己的宗教并讲自己的语言。是的,罗马人也带给他们各

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American political leaders gathered in Washington Thursday for the ceremonial groundbreaking of a building for a nonpartisan group helping to resolve international conflict and promote peace. 美国政治领袖星期四聚集在华盛顿,参加美国

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Education and religion 教育与宗教信仰 Falling away 此消彼长 How education makes people less religiousand less superstitious, too 接受教育越多,宗教倾向越少迷信倾向也越少。这是为什么? JUST one extra year of schoo

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In less than ten years he conquered Egypt, Persia, Phoenicia, Syria and Palestine and made Damascus the capital of the first Mohammedan world empire. 在不到十年的时间里,奥玛尔率军相继征服了埃及、波斯、腓尼基、叙利亚、

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The Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has told the BBC she is the innocent victim of efforts to unseat her a week before the senate votes on whether to hold an impeachment trial. Ms. Rousseff said she intended to keep fighting her job even she is su

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reduction n.減少;折扣 There has been a reduction in the birth rate of this country ever since war broke out. 战争爆发后,该国的出生率已经降低了。 The supermarket advertised many price reductions. 该超市做了许多优惠活动

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集中注意力的秘诀 Meditate 冥想 If you think about it, meditation might seem like the opposite of paying attention. 细细一想,冥想似乎与集中注意力背道而驰。 One objective of meditation is to clear the mind,but another ele

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今年是西藏自治区成立50周年,国务院新闻办6日发表有关西藏自治区的白皮书《民族区域自治制度在西藏的成功实践》(Successful Practice of Regional Ethnic Autonomy in Tibet),白皮书指出,达赖喇嘛无

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