美国为监狱瘦身 多名罪犯即将获释 Barbra Scrivner wakes up every morning at five. It's a quiet time to think about what she has, and what she is missed.These days she helps to raise her grandson,getting dressed and ready for school each

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(一月)

He crossed the Rubicon River which separated the province of Cis-alpine Gaul from Italy. Everywhere he was received as the friend of the people. Without difficulty Caesar entered Rome and Pompey fled to Greece Caesar followed him and defeated his fol

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俄乌冲突波及敖德萨旅游业 While the separatist crisis continues in two small regions of eastern Ukraine, the rest of the country is trying to return to business as usual, including the port and resort city of Odessa in the south. The impac

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If you live on Earth, here are two things to keep in mind: one, Fridays are awesome! And two, and this is not awesome, theres a good chance that the air you breathe is too polluted to be healthy. 如果你生活在地球上,这里有两件事要记住

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June 14th, 1940During World War II, Paris falls into Nazi hands, as German troops enter France's capital. That same day, in German occupied Poland, the Nazis open a concentration camp, at Auschwitz. 1985,Shiite Muslim militants hijack TWA Flight 847

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And with tribal manufacture came trade. The warriors, druid priests and artists of Iron Age Britain shipped their wares all over Europe, trading with the expanding Roman Empire. In return, with no home-grown grapes or olives, Mediterranean wine and o

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Ever since the temple was destroyed Jews have gone there to weep and to pray that their country, which the ancient Romans took from them, would be restored to them. It is called the Wailing Wall. 自从圣殿被摧毁之后,犹太人常来此哭泣并

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Surely, but of great use to the world at large, Captain Nemo said. 不错,不过对全世界很有用。船长回答, The ancients well understood the usefulness to commerce of connecting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean, but they never dreamed

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AT SUNRISE the next morning, February 12, the Nautilus rose to the surface of the waves. 第二天,2月12日,天一亮的时候,诺第留斯号就浮出水面。 I rushed onto the platform. The hazy silhouette of Pelusium was outlined three mil

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That's how we ended this conversation, which later was to have such serious consequences. 这次谈话谈到这里就结束了,后来发生很严重的后果。 At first, I must say, events seemed to confirm my forecasts, much to the Canadian's des

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Swimmers on the popular river beach say there was no warning on a sunny day before the downpour of hailstones, some the size of golf balls and hen eggs. 正值酷暑,西伯利亚一处有名的沙滩却毫无预警地迎来了一场冰雹,冰雹大

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Tom: Jess, I love hearing you talk about the different cities, you've been working in. Were they all very expensive places to live? Jess: No, they weren't all expensive. The first city I lived in when I moved away from Britain was Budapest in Hungary

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Like here in Verdun where a half million French soldiers were killed to come to this 20 years later. 一如50万法国官兵丧生所在的凡尔登,20年后成了这样。 Hitler jeers at his visit his man who's only just taken Maginot Line. 希特勒

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本期内容: Rescuers searched for wreckage from an EgyptAir Paris-Cairo flight which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. The Airbus A320, carrying 66 passengers and crew, disappeared from the radar shortly after entering Egyptian airspace. Greece

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November 17th, 1973An embattled President Richard Nixon defends himself during the Watergate scandal. He tells the Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Florida. People have got to know, whether or not their president is a crook. Well

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October 10th, 1973Vice President Spiro Agnew, accused of taking bribes, pleads no contest to federal income tax evasion. Agnew then becomes only the second vice president in US history to resign. Because I believe we will be against the national inte

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October 10th, 1973Vice President Spiro Agnew, accused of taking bribes, pleads no contest to federal income tax evasion. Agnew then becomes only the second vice president in U.S. history to resign. Because I believe we will be against the national in

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Chapter 10 第十章 The Phoenicians 腓尼基人 The Phoenicians who gave us our alphabet 腓尼基人为我们创造了字母 The Phoenicians, who were the neighbours of the Jews, were a Semitic tribe which at a very early age had settled along the

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Carthage could not possibly tolerate such competition. The young rival must be destroyed lest the Carthaginian rulers lose their prestige as the absolute rulers of the western Mediterranean. The rumors were duly investigated and in a general way thes

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I am a lonely blue whale in the sea 我是只化身孤岛的蓝鲸 Like an island with a breeze 有着最巨大的身影 Fish are swimming in the weeds 鱼虾在身侧穿行 Birds are whispering over me 也有飞鸟在背上停 Ive seen so many fasci

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