AS IT IS 2015-12-11 Children Drown After Boat Packed With Migrants Sinks 移民船沉没儿童溺亡 Five children are among 11 people who drowned after a migrant boat sank near a Greek island on Wednesday. 周三,一艘移民船只在希腊一座岛

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

Culture 文化 Culture is a certain group's unique way of thinking and behaving. 文化是指某一群体特有的思考和行为的方式。 Therefore, there are a lot of different cultures in the world. 因此,世界上的文化多种多样。 Gr

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 与美国小学生一起学英文第4册

Greece, Europe Reach New Debt Agreement 希腊与欧洲达成新的债务协议 In the news today The European Union has agreed to provide tens of billions of dollars in new loans to Greece. This financial rescue plan is the third agreement between G

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1、The Heel of Achilles 亦作The Achilles Heel唯一弱点;薄弱环节;要害 = deadly / fatal/ mortal The Heel of Achilles直译是阿基里斯的脚踵,是个在欧洲广泛流行的国际性成语。阿基里斯是希腊联军里最英勇善

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Europe's debt saga欧洲的债务援助行动 Every which way but solved 远未解决 A bail-out strategy as bankrupt as Greece should be ditched. It probably wont be 本应放弃像希腊一样没有偿债能力的纾困措施。但也许未必如此

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Would she consider the version of Eurobonds suggested by Germanys advisory council ofeconomic wise men? Under this scheme, debts exceeding 60% of GDP would be transferred into a fund with joint liability and paid off by the debtor countries over 20-2

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I was in these seas when that phenomenon occurred and I was able to observe its every phase. 这件抒事发生的时候,我正在这一带海中,我可以观察岛屿形成的所有阶段。 The islet of Aphroessa was circular in shape, measurin

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Alexander only went east. Although 'only' may not be quite the right word! 亚历山大只向东方进军。只当然并非是个正确的词! But the lands that lay to the west of Greece did not tempt him just a couple of Phoenician and Greek colo

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Egypt was then governed by a family of generals the Ptolemies. 接着一个将领家族统治了埃及托勒密王室。 The Seleucids ruled Mesopotamia, and the Attalids Asia Minor. 塞琉古王室统治了美索不达米亚,安提克王室统治了

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As is usually the case with wars, not only Athens but the whole country was exhausted by the conflict, and the victors were no exception. 正如战争中常会发生的那样,不仅是雅典,整个国家在战斗中耗尽了精力,胜利者也是

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Let us now take a closer look at two of Greece's most important cities: Sparta and Athens. 现在让我们仔细看看希腊两个最重要的城市:斯巴达和雅典。 We already know something about the Spartans: they were Dorians, who, when th

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But one thing united the Greeks: their religion and their sport. 但只有一件事情把希腊联合在一起了:他们的信仰和体育运动。 And I say 'one thing' because, strangely enough, sport and religion weren't two separate things they

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I said earlier that Greece, when set against the Persian empire, was no more than a small peninsula, 我已经谈到,顶住了波斯帝国强大压力的希腊是一个小小的半岛, dotted here and there with little cities of busy merchants, 有

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This was the famous Marathon Run after which we call our race. 这便是著名的马拉松长跑的由来。 Famous, because the messenger ran so far and so fast that all he could do was deliver his message before he fell down dead. 马拉松长跑之所

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It came after the death of Cambyses, during the reign of a great king named Darius. 这是在冈比西斯死之后,在一位名叫大流士的伟大君主的统治期间。 He governed the vast Persian empire which now stretched from Egypt to the f

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Whenever he felt his temper rising, he slowly recited the alphabet in his head, and by the time he had reached the end he had calmed down. 每逢他发怒时,他便总是默默诵读字母顺序,这会花去他的一些时间,然后他又头脑清

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农历新年即将来临,想必大家早已经沉浸在对春节的热切期盼中,今天的节目一起来看看如何用英语说过年。 01.Spring festival 首先,我们来看看如何用英语说年: Spring Festival: 春节 很多中国的

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模仿句子:Now the new year is said to be a new start for Ukraine, economically speaking at least. On January 1st, the country starts its free trade agreement with the European Union. 翻译:据说乌克兰新年会有个新气象,至少从经济

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GWEN IFILL: Europe and Greece finally appear to be close to a bailout deal to provide Athens a financial lifeline. But it appears that battle is not yet over. A new front has opened whether to provide permanent relief for Greece's $330 billion debt,

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I have problems with New Year's resolutions, not because they often fail or because they're too difficult and not because I am bad with them either. I mean, I've only been alive for four New Years! No, I have problems with resolutions because people

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