In U.S. politics, both sides in the ongoing domestic policy debates are taking a break over the Christmas holiday, following an unexpectedly productive final session of the outgoing Congress. When they return in January they will face the new politic

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2010年12月

US Lawmakers Seek to Permit Religious Head Coverings in Congress For almost 200 years, the House of Representatives part of the United States Congress has barred lawmakers from wearing hats. But this year, voters in Minnesota elected Ilhan Omar to re

发表于:2018-12-10 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

AZUZ: Very different type of speaking event is also having an effect on the market. The stock price of the Facebook social media company went up yesterday when its CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified to the U.S. Congress. The privacy of Facebook users data

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年6月

Several States have so few people that they send only one Representative. 有几个州人数太少,只能选送一名众议员。 The Senate and the House of Representatives together are called Congress, and when Congress is holding a meeting a fla

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

Take a look(Show photos over the years). Here we are in 2008. 请看(上台这些年来的照片)。这是我俩在2008年。 Here we are a few years later. 这是我俩几年之后。 And this one is from two weeks ago(Skelton photo from Canada

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The Library of Congress is using technology to make its collections available to people across the United States and around the world. 美国国会图书馆正在利用科技让其馆藏可以为美国人民和全球人民所用。 The library is the

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Republicans and Democrats in Congress are reacting to President Barack Obama's speech, in which he warned Americans that the economy faces a dire day of reckoning, but one the country can recover from. 美国国会共和、民主两党议员对奥巴马

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年2月

今天我们要给大家介绍的两个常用语都是和

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Amid Congressional Leadership Crisis, Momentous US Fiscal Deadlines Loom 国会危机:美国财政悬崖最后期限将至 WASHINGTON The U.S. Congress faces critical fiscal deadlines at a time of upheaval and uncertainty on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers a

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(156) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(十月)

奥巴马呼吁国会通过TPP协定 In what may be his final prime-time address to both houses of Congress, President BarackObama called Tuesday for swift action on the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership, framing thedeal as a way to open overseas mar

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Leading anti-hunger advocates are fasting to protest U.S. budget-cutting proposals that could threaten some of the world's most vulnerable people. 一些主要的反饥锇活动人士最近绝食,抗议美国政府削减预算的建议。他们认为

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2011年4月

Hello, everybody. In recent weeks, weve seen signs that our economy is growing stronger and creating jobs at a faster clip. While numbers and figures will go up and down in the coming months, what cannot waver is our resolve to do everything in our p

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 奥巴马每周电视讲话

This week, the Senate passed a plan that I proposed a few weeks ago to protect middle class Americans and virtually every small business owner from getting hit with a big tax hike next yeara tax hike of $2,200 for the typical family. 本周,参议院

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华盛顿:在本周的讲话中,奥巴马总统告诉美国民众,尽管美国在新创意、创新产业以及富有创造性的企业家等方面领先世界,但依然有太多人还在为勉强生活而挣扎。现在是国会对总统的提

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华盛顿:在本周的讲话中,奥巴马总统敦促共和党和民主党采取行动,避免美国历史上首次的债务违约。由于两党在各自的目标上分歧并不是很大,因此双方必须尽快消除分歧,这样联邦政府

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New US Congress in Divided Government The 116th United States Congress returned the first woman to the position of Speaker of the House and swore in the most diverse group of lawmakers in history. 第116届美国国会再次迎来了众议院首位女议

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 2019年VOA慢速英语(一)月

This is AP News Minute. President Obama is looking at a two-track strategy to deal with Syria and its stockpile of chemical weapons. Obama is joining the call for the U.N. Security Council to start talks aimed at securing those weapons while pushing

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2013(九月)

面对全国听众的每周电台演讲是由富兰克林-罗斯福开创的一项传统。是总统和普通大众沟通的一种方式。里根在1982年开始将演讲固定在每周六,并延续至今。每周演讲,不仅能练习英语听力,

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 名人演讲视频

Majority Democrats and the Obama administration say more time is needed to see if actions already taken to stimulate the economy bear fruit. Democrats and the White House are downplaying speculation about a possible second stimulus on top of the $787

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年3月

今天我们要学的词组是reject。 Reject的意思是拒绝。比如拒绝某人的要求,75岁的天主教香港教区枢机主教陈日君说, 教皇拒绝了他的退休要求, Hong Kong's Cardinal Joseph Zen said the Pope had rejected

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